Skip to content
Early access — you're among the first to try PYQLabs. Share feedback

Load Flow

GATE Electrical Engineering · 18 questions across 16 years (1992-2025) · 40% recurrence rate

Recurrence sparkline

19922025
199220092025

Difficulty mix

easy 44%
med 56%

Question types

MCQ10
NAT4
OTHER3
AR1

All 18 questions on Load Flow

2025 PYQ

During a power failure, a domestic household uninterruptible power supply (UPS) supplies AC power to a limited number of lights and fans in various rooms. As per a NewtonRaphson load-flow formulation, the UPS would be re...

Easy
2021 PYQ

Consider a power system consisting of $N$ number of buses. Buses in this power system are categorized into slack bus. $P V$ buses and $P Q$ buses for load flow study. The number of $P Q$ buses is $N_L$. The balanced Newt...

Med
2018 PYQ

A 1000 $$ \times $$ 1000 bus admittance matrix for an electric power system has 8000 non-zero elements. The minimum number of branches (transmission lines and transformers) in this system are _____ (up to 2 decimal place...

Easy
2017 PYQ

In a load flow problem solved by Newton-Raphson method with polar coordinates, the size of the Jacobian is $$\,100\,\, \times \,\,100.$$ If there are $$20$$ PV buses in addition to PQ buses and a slack bus, the total num...

Med
2017 PYQ

A 10-bus power system consists of four generator buses indexed as G1, G2, G3, G4 and six load buses indexed as L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6. The generator bus G1 is considered as slack bus, and the load buses L3 and L4 are vol...

Med
2016 PYQ

In a 100 bus power system, there are 10 generators. In a particular iteration of Newton Raphson load flow technique (in polar coordinates), two of the PV buses are converted to PQ type. In this iteration.

Med
2015 PYQ

Determine the correctness or otherwise of the following Assertion (a) and the Reason (R). Assertion (A): Fast decoupled load flow method gives approximate load flow solution because it uses several assumptions. Reason (R...

Med
2015 PYQ

A $$3$$-bus power system network consists of $$3$$ transmission lines. The bus admittance matrix of the uncompensated system is $$\left[ {\matrix{ { - j6} & {j3} & {j4} \cr {j3} & { - j7} & {j5} \cr {j4} & {j5} & { - j8}...

Med
2014 PYQ

A 183-bus power system has 150PQ buses and 32 PV buses. In the general case, to obtain the load flow solution using Newton-Raphson method in polar coordinates, the minimum number of simultaneous equations to be solved is...

Easy
2012 PYQ

The bus admittance matrix of a three-bus three-line system is $$y = j\left[ {\matrix{ { - 13} & {10} & 5 \cr {10} & { - 18} & {10} \cr 5 & {10} & { - 13} \cr } } \right]$$ If each transmission line between the two buses...

Med
2009 PYQ

For the $${Y_{bus}}$$ matrix of a $$4$$-bus system given in per unit, the buses having shunt elements are $$${Y_{BUS}} = j\left[ {\matrix{ { - 5} & 2 & {2.5} & 0 \cr 2 & { - 10} & {2.5} & 4 \cr {2.5} & {2.5} & { - 9} & 4...

Easy
2006 PYQ

The Gauss Seidel load flow method has following disadvantages. Tick the incorrect student.

Easy
2003 PYQ

A power system consists of $$300$$ buses out of which $$20$$ buses are generator buses, $$25$$ buses are the ones with reactive power support and $$15$$ buses are the ones with fixed shunt capacitors. All the other buses...

Med
2001 PYQ

For the $$Y$$-$$bus$$ matrix given in per unit values, where the first, second, third and fourth row refers to bus $$1, 2, 3$$ and $$4$$ respectively, draw the reactance diagram. $$${Y_{bus}} = j\left[ {\matrix{ { - 6} &...

Med
1996 PYQ

If the reference bus is changed in two load flow runs with same system data and power obtained for reference bus taken as specified P and Q in the latter run

Med
1995 PYQ

In load-flow analysis, a voltage-controlled bus is treated as a load bus in subsequent iteration for a _________limit is violated.

Easy
1993 PYQ

In load flow analysis, the load connected at a bus is represented as

Easy
1992 PYQ

In load flow studies of a power system, the quantities specified at a voltage-controlled bus are ____________and___________

Easy