KPR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

EE 2404 POWER SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL

PART A
1. Draw the block diagram of AVR.
2. What is meant by stability compensation?
3. What are the different types of reactive power compensation of methods of voltage control?
4. Define booster transformer.
5. What are the merits of synchronous compensator?
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous compensators?
7. State the function of AVR.
8. What is booster transformer? Where is it used?
9. What is synchronous condenser?
10. Compare shunt and series capacitors.
11. What are the different types of static VAR compensators?
12. State the unit commitment problem.
13. What is the need of unit commitment?
14. Name the constraints in unit commitment problem.
15. What is minimum up and minimum down time in unit commitment problem?
16. What is priority list method? List out its assumptions.
17. What are the merits and demerits of priority list method?
18. What are the advantages of forward dynamic programming method?
PART B
Answer all the following

(3 * 16 = 48)

1. Explain the transfer function of modeling of typical excitation system or AVR with neat diagram and
discuss the static and dynamic analysis of AVR.
(16)
2. Explain the stability compensation.
(8)
3. Explain in detail about the generation and absorption of reactive power.
(8)
4. Explain the tap setting of tap changing transformer and tap changing transformer with reactive power
injection.
(12)
5. What is static VAR compensator? Where it is used? Explain its operation. Also state the merits of
static VAR compensator over the other methods of voltage control.
(16)
6. What are the methods of voltage control? Explain any two methods in detail
(8)
7. Discuss the relation between voltage, power and reactive power at a node.
(8)
8. What is unit commitment problem? And discuss its constraints.
(8)
9. Explain the priority list method using suitable numerical example.
(8)
10. With the help of a flowchart explain forward dynamic programming solution method of unit
commitment problem.
(8)