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GATE Power Systems: Symmetrical components, Symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis – Previous Year Questions

15 GATE previous year questions on Symmetrical components, Symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis (Power Systems, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2017 EE Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The positive, negative, and zero sequence reactances of a wye-connected synchronous generator are 0.2 pu, 0.2 pu, and 0.1 pu, respectively. The…
  2. GATE 2015 EE Q54 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A sustained three-phase fault occurs in the power system shown in the figure. The current and voltage phasors during the fault (on a common…
  3. GATE 2016 EE Q30 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The magnitude of three-phase fault currents at buses A and B of a power system are 10 pu and 8 pu, respectively. Neglect all resistances in the system…
  4. GATE 2016 EE Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 30 MVA, 3-phase, 50 Hz, 13.8 kV, star-connected synchronous generator has positive, negative and zero sequence reactances, 15%, 15% and 5%…
  5. GATE 2018 EE Q30 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The series impedance matrix of a short three-phase transmission line in phase coordinates is bmatrixZ s&Z m&Z m\ m&Z s&Z m\ m&Z m&Z sbmatrix. If the…
  6. GATE 2018 EE Q31 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The positive, negative and zero sequence impedances of a 125 MVA, three-phase, 15.5 kV, star-grounded generator are j0.1 pu, j0.05 pu and j0.01 pu…
  7. GATE 2018 EE Q38 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The positive, negative and zero sequence impedances of a three phase generator are Z 1, Z 2 and Z 0 respectively. For a line-to-line fault with fault…
  8. GATE 2019 EE Q32 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Five alternators each rated 5 MVA, 13.2 kV with 25% of reactance on its own base are connected in parallel to a busbar. The short-circuit level in MVA…
  9. GATE 2019 EE Q60 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 30 kV, 50 Hz, 50 MVA generator has the positive, negative, and zero sequence reactances of 0.25 pu, 0.15 pu, and 0.05 pu, respectively. The neutral…
  10. GATE 2021 EE Q46 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Suppose I A, I B and I C are a set of unbalanced current phasors in a three-phase system. The phase-B zero-sequence current I B0=0.10 p.u. If phase-A…
  11. GATE 2022 EE Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The valid positive, negative and zero sequence impedances (in p.u.), respectively, for a 220 kV, fully transposed three-phase transmission line, from…
  12. GATE 2023 EE Q60 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The two-bus power system shown in figure (i) has one alternator supplying a synchronous motor load through a Y-Δ transformer. The positive, negative…
  13. GATE 2024 EE Q46 (2 marks, Multiple select) – For a two-phase network, the phase voltages V p and V q are to be expressed in terms of sequence voltages V and V as bmatrixV p\ qbmatrix= SbmatrixV \…
  14. GATE 2025 EE Q33 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The bus impedance matrix of a 3-bus system (in pu) is Z bus=bmatrixj0.059&j0.061&j0.038\0.061&j0.093&j0.066\0.038&j0.066&j0.110bmatrix A symmetrical…
  15. GATE 2026 EE Q19 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The initial three-phase voltage phasors ( V A, V B, and V C) at a bus of a power network are as shown in Case-1. Due to a disturbance, the bus voltage…