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This document contains important questions from five units of the Electrical Technology II course at Sree Venkateswara College of Engineering in Nellore. The units cover topics like illumination, electric heating and welding, electric traction part I and II, and economic aspects of utilizing electrical energy. For each unit, multiple choice and descriptive questions are provided to assess students' understanding of concepts like lighting schemes, induction heating, electric braking systems, speed-time curves in traction, and power factor improvement techniques.

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This document contains important questions from five units of the Electrical Technology II course at Sree Venkateswara College of Engineering in Nellore. The units cover topics like illumination, electric heating and welding, electric traction part I and II, and economic aspects of utilizing electrical energy. For each unit, multiple choice and descriptive questions are provided to assess students' understanding of concepts like lighting schemes, induction heating, electric braking systems, speed-time curves in traction, and power factor improvement techniques.

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ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY II ECE

SREE VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING::NELLORE


UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
DEPARTMENT OF EEE
IV BTECH I SEM[2019-20]

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UNIT-I ILLUMINATION

1. a) Revive expressions for illumination on a surface: (i) When it is normal.


(ii) When it is inclined to the axis of a beam of incident light.
b) Describe with neat sketches, various types of electric lighting fittings used for
illumination.
2. a) Explain the: (i) Specular reflection and diffuse reflection. (ii) Direct lighting
and indirect lighting.
b) What is the basic nature of light and state the laws of illumination?
3. a) Describe with a neat sketch the principle of electric discharge lamp. State the
advantages and disadvantages of discharge lamps over the filament lamp and
give their applications.
b) Describe the construction, principle of operation and applications of sodium
vapour lamp.
4. a) What are the requirements of good lighting scheme? Explain in detail.
b) What are polar curves? Explain Rousseau diagram and its importance in
illumination.
5. a) State and describe various types of lighting schemes.
b) Discuss the effects of voltage variation on the life and illumination as regards
tungsten filament lamp and fluorescent lamp.
6. a) What polar curves are applied to light sources? Show how these curves are used
for finding in MSCP.
b) Write the comparison between incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp.
7. Explain briefly principles employed in street light designing.

UNIT-II ELECTRIC HEATING & WELDING


1. a) Describe with diagram the working principle of Coreless induction furnace.
b) Explain with the help of a neat sketch the working of Ajax Watt furnace. What is
its field of application?
2. a) Define the term ‘welding’. What is resistance welding and what are its
advantages and disadvantages?
b) What is the fundamental difference between electric arc welding and resistance
welding? Compare A.C and D.C welding.
3. a) Give classification of various electric heating methods along with brief account
of their working principle.
b) Discuss the method of temperature control of resistance ovens.
4. a) Define the term ‘welding’ and enumerate the various welding processes.
b) With necessary figures, explain the processes of carbon arc welding and
metallic arc welding.
5. a) Explain in detail about gas welding.
b) Explain in detail about electrolysis and mention applications of electrolysis.

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6. a) Explain the method of induction heating and describe coreless type of induction
furnace.
b) What are the advantages and disadvantages of dielectric heating? Explain
principle of dielectric heating.
7. With neat sketches, describe the construction, principle of operation,
application and control methods of direct and indirect arc furnaces.
8. a) Explain the principle of electric spot welding and seam welding.
b) Discuss the advantages of electric heating as compared to other heating
methods. Also state the desirable properties of heating element.
9. a) Explain the principle of dielectric heating and applications.
b) Distinguish between arc welding and gas welding.
10. Explain in detail about induction heating.
UNIT-III ELECTRIC TRACTION – I

1. a) What do you mean by “Electric traction” and state the advantages of electric
traction over other non-electrical systems of traction including steam traction.
b) What are the requirements of an ideal traction system and how are they met in
an electric traction system?
2. a) Explain dearly how Rheostatic and Regenerative braking used for D.C series
motors with neat circuit diagram.
b) Explain various methods of electric braking. State the conditions to be fulfilled
for each method of braking.
3. a) Describe series and parallel operation of series and shunt motors with unequal
wheel diameters. Discuss how loads are shared in each case.
b) Discuss relative advantages and disadvantages of steam, electric and diesel-
eclectic system of traction.
4. a) Explain the characteristics of DC shunt motor and why it is not suitable for
traction purpose.
b) What is regenerative braking? Why it cannot be accomplished with a series
wound DC motor without modifications in the circuit diagram. Give merits and
demerits.
5. a) Draw the various characteristics of series motor.
Why these are used in traction?
b) What are the different types of electric braking employed for bringing the train
to rest? Explain clearly.

UNIT-IV ELECTRIC TRACTION – II

1. a) Explain, what do you understand by speed-time curves? What is its use in SM


practice?
b) Explain clearly ‘free running’, ‘coasting’ and ‘breaking’ with reference to the
electric traction systems.
2. a) How are traction systems classified and state the main requirements for an ideal
traction system and name the different traction systems?
b) What are the merits and demerits of D.C system of track electrification?

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3. a) Explain the capitalization of losses and how the choice of voltage is taken in
utilization for better
b) Discuss the speed-time curves for main line services.
4. Derive the expression for specific energy output using simplified speed-time
curves.
5. a) For a quadrilateral speed-time curve of an electric train, derive expression for
the distance between stops and speed at the end of the coasting period.
b) Write short notes on specific energy consumption, specific energy output.
6. What is coefficient of adhesion and also discuss factors affecting coefficient of
adhesion.

UNIT-V ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF UTILISING ELECTRICAL ENERGY

1. a) Explain the methods for power factor and load factor improvement.
b) With neat sketch, explain the working of Diesel plant.
2. a) Explain the general comparison of private plant and pubic supply in utilization
of electrical energy.
b) What are the advantages of power factor improvement? Discuss.
3. a) Explain the principle and operation of Diesel plant with neat sketch
b) Explain waste heat recovery system.
4. a) What do you understand by power factor? Give the disadvantages of poor
power factor. What are the advantages of improved power factor?

b) Explain any three types of ‘recuperators’.


5. a) What are the causes of low power factor?
b) State various reasons for choice of private generation over the public supply.

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