NTPC interview sample questions

NTPC sample questions:

Some of the sample NTPC interview questions are listed below. Please go through them,

1. Which type of motors are mostly used in industrial applications. Reasons for that?
2. What are the different speed control methods employed in dc motors?
3. What is Armature reaction in dc motors. How it affects the performance of the machine?
4. Applications of DC series motor and DC shunt motors?
5. Why we cannot generate power at high voltage?
6. Difference between alternators employed in thermal plants and hydro plants?
7. What is equal area criteria?
8. What is the significance of ABCD paramters?
9. What is skin effect and methods to reduce skin effect?
10. Why busbars in EHV substations are hollow bars, what is the reason?
11. Why stones are employed in the switchyard?
13. What is the use of salt while earthing a power system?
14. Different methods to turn on the SCR? which method is best suited, why?
15. What is SCADA system?
16. What is the use of silica gel in the transformer?
15. Why we use test signals in control systems?
16. Difference between the open loop control system and closed loop control system?
17. What is Race around condition?
18. Why inductors are employed in power electronic circuitry?
19. What is surge impedance loading? Significance of Surge Impedance Loading?
20.What is Reactance relay, how they operate?


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1.What is the similarity between Induction motor and Transformer?
2.Explain about the B-H curve and its significance?
3.Design Full adder and Half Adder circuit?
4.What is Load torque and its significance in starting of Induction motor?
5.Why efficiency of thermal power plant is low (30-40%) ?
6.Why synchronous motor is not self starting motor ( prime mover is required to start)?
7.Why transformer core is laminated?
8.Why generation voltage is low (11kVto 33kV) why don't we generate power at 220kV?
9.What is Plug setting multiplier and time setting multiplier in relays?
8.What is PI, PD and PID controllers and applications for all?
9.Advantages of DC machines compared to AC machines?
10.In explosive and polluted environments which type of motors do we use?
11.What is snubber circuit?
12.Applications of cyclo-convertors?
13.Why we use low frequency (16 1/2 ) in traction applications?
14.What is Lead - Lag compensation?
15.Why secondary of CT should not be open?
16.What is the effect of harmonics on power system?
17.Advantages and disadvantages of Gauss seidel and Netwon rapson methods in
solving load flow studies?
18.Which type of network cant be used for applying super-position theorem?
19. What is direct memory access?
20. What is electrical corona and methods to reduce the corona effect?


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Electrical Questions:
1. What are the different conditions for parallel operation of Transformers?
2. What are V and inverted V curves in Synchronous motor and their significance?
3. Explain electrical corona? and methods to reduce the electrical corona?
4. Explain about P, PI and PID controller? Their advantages and disadvantages?
5. What are the different braking methods used in dc motors
6. What is water hammering phenomenon?
7. Advantages of DC motors over AC motors?
8. What is Load factor, Demand factor, Installed capacity, spinning reserve?
9. Which power plants can be used as a peak load plants. Reason?
10.What is String efficiency in insulators?
11. What is Transient stability and methods to improve transient stability?
12. What is single line diagram and the assumptions required?
13. What is Step Potential and Touch potential in substations?
14. What are different switching schemes employed in substations?
15. How Speed of DC shunt motor is controlled?
16. What is the difference between Microprocessor and Microcontroller?
17. What is SIL and its significance
18. Realize Ex-OR using NAND gates
19. What is Race around condition
20. Why single phase induction motor is not self starting and methods to start single phase
induction motor?


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