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HW7-SOLUTION Synchronous Motor

This document summarizes the key specifications and operating parameters of a 480V, 60Hz, 400hp synchronous motor with 0.8 power factor. It then provides the solutions to various questions about determining the motor's speed, voltage and current values under different load and excitation conditions, as well as calculating and plotting the motor's V-curve. The solutions involve using the motor specifications and equations relating voltage, current, power, torque and speed to analyze the motor's performance.

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HW7-SOLUTION Synchronous Motor

This document summarizes the key specifications and operating parameters of a 480V, 60Hz, 400hp synchronous motor with 0.8 power factor. It then provides the solutions to various questions about determining the motor's speed, voltage and current values under different load and excitation conditions, as well as calculating and plotting the motor's V-curve. The solutions involve using the motor specifications and equations relating voltage, current, power, torque and speed to analyze the motor's performance.

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Chapter 5: Synchronous Motors

5-1. A 480-V, 60 Hz, 400-hp 0.8-PF-leading eight-pole -connected synchronous motor has a synchronous
reactance of 0.6  and negligible armature resistance. Ignore its friction, windage, and core losses for the
purposes of this problem. Assume that E A is directly proportional to the field current I F (in other
words, assume that the motor operates in the linear part of the magnetization curve), and that E A = 480
V when I F = 4 A.
(a) What is the speed of this motor?
(b) If this motor is initially supplying 400 hp at 0.8 PF lagging, what are the magnitudes and angles
of E A and I A ?
(c) How much torque is this motor producing? What is the torque angle  ? How near is this value
to the maximum possible induced torque of the motor for this field current setting?

(d) If E A is increased by 30 percent, what is the new magnitude of the armature current? What is
the motor’s new power factor?
(e) Calculate and plot the motor’s V-curve for this load condition.
SOLUTION
(a) The speed of this motor is given by
120 f se 120  60 Hz 
nm    900 r/min
P 8
(b) If losses are being ignored, the output power is equal to the input power, so the input power will be
PIN   400 hp  746 W/hp   298.4 kW

This situation is shown in the phasor diagram below:


V

IA
jX I
S A

EA

The line current flow under these circumstances is


P 298.4 kW
IL    449 A
3 VT PF 3  480 V  0.8

Because the motor is -connected, the corresponding phase current is I A  449 / 3  259 A . The angle
of the current is  cos 1  0.80  36.87 , so I A  259  36.87 A . The internal generated voltage E A
is
E A  V  jX S I A

E A   4800 V   j  0.6   259  36.87 A   406  17.8 V

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(c) This motor has 6 poles and an electrical frequency of 60 Hz, so its rotation speed is nm = 1200
r/min. The induced torque is
POUT 298.4 kW
 ind    3166 N  m
m 1 min  2 rad 
 900 r/min    
 60 s  1 r 
The maximum possible induced torque for the motor at this field setting is the maximum possible power
divided by m

3V E A 3  480 V  406 V 


 ind,max    10,340 N  m
m X S  1 min  2 rad 
 900 r/min      0.6  
 60 s  1 r 
The current operating torque is about 1/3 of the maximum possible torque.
(d) If the magnitude of the internal generated voltage E A is increased by 30%, the new torque angle
can be found from the fact that E A sin   P  constant .

E A 2  1.30 E A1  1.30  406 V   487.2 V

 E A1   406 V 
 2  sin 1  sin 1   sin 1  sin  17.8    14.8
 E A2   487.2 V 
The new armature current is
V  E A 2 4800 V  487.2  14.8 V
I A2    208  4.1 A
jX S j 0.6 

The magnitude of the armature current is 208 A, and the power factor is cos (-24.1) = 0.913 lagging.
(e) A MATLAB program to calculate and plot the motor’s V-curve is shown below:

% M-file: prob5_1e.m
% M-file create a plot of armature current versus Ea
% for the synchronous motor of Problem 5-1.

% Initialize values
Ea = (0.90:0.01:1.70)*406; % Magnitude of Ea volts
Ear = 406; % Reference Ea
deltar = -17.8 * pi/180; % Reference torque angle
Xs = 0.6; % Synchronous reactance (ohms)
Vp = 480; % Phase voltage at 0 degrees
Ear = Ear * (cos(deltar) + j * sin(deltar));

% Calculate delta2
delta2 = asin ( abs(Ear) ./ abs(Ea) .* sin(deltar) );

% Calculate the phasor Ea


Ea = Ea .* (cos(delta2) + j .* sin(delta2));

% Calculate Ia
Ia = ( Vp - Ea ) / ( j * Xs);

% Plot the v-curve

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