ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Session: 2024-25 Semester: VII Section: EN

Course Code: KEE-079 Course Name: Utilization of Electrical Energy & Electric Traction
Tutorial Sheet-1
Topic: Electric Heating
1. What are the advantages of electrical heating?
2. What are the properties that a good heating element material must possess?
3. What are the various reasons of heating element failure?
4. Name the various heating methods and explain resistance heating.
5. Explain pinch effect and skin effect. Compare the performance of Ajax Wyatt and coreless
furnace. State the application of the two types of furnaces.
6. Discuss the temperature control of resistance furnaces.
7. What is dielectric heating? How is this different from induction heating? Explain the factors on
which dielectric loss in a dielectric material depend.
8. Describe various factors on which choice of particular frequency depends in induction heating.
Also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of high frequency heating.
9. A low frequency induction furnace operating at 10 V in secondary circuit takes 500 kW at 0.5 pf,
when the hearth is full. If the secondary voltage is to be maintained at 10 V, estimate the power
absorbed and pf when the hearth is half. Assume the resistance of the secondary circuit to be
thereby halved and reactance to remain the same.
10. A 21 kW, 1-Φ, 220 V resistance oven employs circular nichrome wire for its heating element. If
the wire temperature is not to exceed 1227 °C and the temperature of the charge is to be 527 °C.
Calculate the size and length of wire required. Assume e=0.9 and radiation efficiency K=0.6.
What would be the temperature of wire when the charge is cold?
 ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Session: 2024-25 Semester: VII Section: EN

Course Code: KEE-079 Course Name: Utilization of Electrical Energy & Electric Traction
Tutorial Sheet-2
Topic: Electric Welding
11. What is welding? What are different types of electric welding? What are the qualities of a good
weld?
12. Give the classification of electric arc welding. What type of electric supply is suitable for electric
arc welding? Explain spot welding.
13. Write notes on the following:
a. Butt welding
b. Percussion welding
c. Projection welding
14. What is the need of ignitron contractor in welding process? Why it is advantageous over
mechanical switches?
15. What are the advantages of flash butt welding over simple butt welding?
16. Discuss the electron beam welding.
17. Discuss various laws of electrolysis. What are the different applications of electrolysis?
18. Describe the principle of electro deposition in electrolyte process.
19. Explain electroplating and various processes involved in electroplating.
20. A copper refining plant employing 500 electrolytic cells carries current of 4000 A with voltage
per cell of 0.25 V. if the plant is working for 45 hours per week, determine the energy
consumption per metric ton assuming E.C.E of copper as 0.3281 mg/ coulomb of electricity.
 ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Session: 2024-25 Semester: VII Section: EN

Course Code: KEE-079 Course Name: Utilization of Electrical Energy & Electric Traction
Tutorial Sheet-3
Topic: Illumination
21. Define the following terms:
a. Plane angle and solid angle
b. Brightness
c. Illumination
d. Luminous flux and luminous intensity
e. Candle power, M.H.C.P and M.S.C.P
f. Glare
22. Explain the laws of illumination.
23. What are the qualities sought in fittings meant for outdoor installations? Discuss the diffusion
principle and specular reflection principle used for street lighting installations.
24. Describe various light fittings used for indoor lighting giving special applications of each one of
them. What system of lighting should be recommended for drawing office?
25. What precautions would you take when planning lighting of road curves and junctions?
26. What advantages and disadvantages sodium and high pressure mercury lighting have over
filament lamp?
27. In a street lighting scheme, lamps having uniform C.P of 800 are hung at a height of 10 m.
Distance between consecutive lamps posts is 12 m. find illumination under lamp at centre in
between the lamp posts.
28. An area of 300 m × 45 m has to be illuminated by projector lamps of 1000 W each. Illumination
levels required is 8 lux, efficiency of lamps is 18 lumens/watt, beam factor is 0.4, maintenance
factor is 0.67 and waste light factor 1.2. Find the number of projectors required.
29. Draw the block diagram of a commercial refrigeration system and explain working of all of its
components.
30. Discuss the important factors involved in a proper and efficient air conditioning.
 ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Session: 2024-25 Semester: VII Section: EN

Course Code: KEE-079 Course Name: Utilization of Electrical Energy & Electric Traction
Tutorial Sheet-4
Topic: Electric Traction-1
31. Discuss the merits and demerits of steam engine drive, internal combustion drive, diesel engine
drive and electric drive used for traction.
32. What are the different systems of track electrification? Why 3-Φ system employing induction
motors is now obsolete?
33. Explain the requirements for ideal traction and show which drive satisfies almost all the
requirements.
34. Discuss the mechanism of train movement and explain the role of coefficient of adhesion on
tractive effort and braking.
35. Discuss various factors affecting specific energy consumption in the traction.
36. Explain the following:
a. Crest speed
b. Average speed
c. Scheduled speed
37. Explain the simplified speed-time curve method for traction with all its mathematical expression.
38. Draw and explain general speed-time curve of a train running between two stations. How can this
curve be approximated for the following:
a. Main line service
b. Suburban service
39. A train runs at an average speed of 50 km/h between stations situated 2.5 km apart. Train
accelerates at 2 km/h2 and retards at 3 km/h2. Find its maximum speed, assuming simplified
trapezoidal speed time curve. Draw the speed time curve for the run and also calculate the
distance travelled by it before the brakes are applied.
40. A locomotive of 100 tonnes can just accelerate train of 500 tonnes with an acceleration of 1 km/h2
up gradient of 10%. Adhesive weight of locomotive is 70% of total dead weight, tractive
resistance is 45 N/tonne and inertia is 10%. If this locomotive is helped by another locomotive of
130 tonnes with 100% adhesive weight, find out the following:
a. Trailing weight that can be hauled up the same gradient under same conditions
b. The maximum gradient provided the trailing hauled load remain unchanged
 ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Session: 2024-25 Semester: VII Section: EN

Course Code: KEE-079 Course Name: Utilization of Electrical Energy & Electric Traction
Tutorial Sheet-5
Topic: Electric Traction-2
41. What are the various mechanical and electrical features of a traction motor?
42. What are the advantages and disadvantages of diesel electric traction? Discuss the main
characteristics of diesel engine with special reference to its application for traction purposes.
43. Explain series-parallel starting shunt transition with all its related diagrams.
44. Explain the operation of diesel traction drive employing a torque converter consisting of an
alternator, diode bridge and dc series motor.
45. Discuss the power electronic control of dc and ac traction drives. Also mention its advantages and
disadvantages.
46. State and explain the advantages of chopper control over resistance control in dc traction.
47. What are the features of an ideal braking system?
48. Describe the construction, principle of operation and application of metadyne converter.
49. Two motors of a motor coach are started by series parallel method, the current per motor being
350 A which is kept constant during starting period of 18 s. If the acceleration is uniform, line
voltage is 600 V and resistance of each motor of 0.1 Ω, calculate the following:
a. The time during which the motors are operating in series
b. The loss in the rheostats during starting period
50. A train weighing 300 tonnes has its speed reduced from 80 km/h to 30 km/h while going down an
incline of 1 in 100 through a distance of 3 km by employing regenerative braking. Taking tractive
resistance of 4 kg/tonne and allowance for rotational inertia is 8%, calculate the kWh returned to
the line assuming an overall efficiency of 75%.