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GATE Power Systems: System stability concepts, Equal area criterion – Previous Year Questions

9 GATE previous year questions on System stability concepts, Equal area criterion (Power Systems, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2017 EE Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The figure shows the single line diagram of a power system with a double circuit transmission line. The expression for electrical power is 1.5, where…
  2. GATE 2015 EE Q53 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 50 Hz generating unit has H-constant of 2 MJ/MVA. The machine is initially operating in steady state at synchronous speed, and producing 1 pu of…
  3. GATE 2018 EE Q40 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The per-unit power output of a salient-pole generator which is connected to an infinite bus, is given by the expression, P=1.4+0.152, where is the…
  4. GATE 2019 EE Q61 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – In the single machine infinite bus system shown below, the generator is delivering the real power of 0.8 pu at 0.8 power factor lagging to the…
  5. GATE 2020 EE Q59 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A cylindrical rotor generator has steady state synchronous reactance of 0.7 pu and subtransient reactance of 0.2 pu. It is operating at (1+j0) pu…
  6. GATE 2021 EE Q29 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – An alternator with internal voltage of 1 1 p.u and synchronous reactance of 0.4 p.u is connected through a transmission line of reactance 0.1 p.u to a…
  7. GATE 2022 EE Q57 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 20 MVA, 11.2 kV, 4-pole, 50 Hz alternator has an inertia constant of 15 MJ/MVA. If the input and output powers of the alternator are 15 MW and 10…
  8. GATE 2024 EE Q56 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The single line diagram of a lossless system is shown in the figure. The system is operating in steady-state at a stable equilibrium point with the…
  9. GATE 2025 EE Q49 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – In the system shown below, the generator was initially supplying power to the grid. A temporary LLLG bolted fault occurs at F very close to circuit…