Load Flow
GATE Electrical Engineering · 18 questions across 16 years (1992-2025) · 40% recurrence rate
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
A $$3$$-bus power system network consists of $$3$$ transmission lines. The bus admittance matrix of the uncompensated system is $$\left[ {\matrix{ { - j6} & {j3} & {j4} \cr {j3} & { - j7} & {j5} \cr {j4} & {j5} & { - j8}...
A 183-bus power system has 150PQ buses and 32 PV buses. In the general case, to obtain the load flow solution using Newton-Raphson method in polar coordinates, the minimum number of simultaneous equations to be solved is...
The bus admittance matrix of a three-bus three-line system is $$y = j\left[ {\matrix{ { - 13} & {10} & 5 \cr {10} & { - 18} & {10} \cr 5 & {10} & { - 13} \cr } } \right]$$ If each transmission line between the two buses...
For the $${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...
The Gauss Seidel load flow method has following disadvantages. Tick the incorrect student.
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...
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} &...
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
In load-flow analysis, a voltage-controlled bus is treated as a load bus in subsequent iteration for a _________limit is violated.
In load flow analysis, the load connected at a bus is represented as
In load flow studies of a power system, the quantities specified at a voltage-controlled bus are ____________and___________