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GATE Power Systems: Principles of over-current, differential, directional and distance protection; Circuit breakers – Previous Year Questions

6 GATE previous year questions on Principles of over-current, differential, directional and distance protection; Circuit breakers (Power Systems, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2019 EE Q62 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – In a 132 kV system, the series inductance up to the point of circuit breaker location is 50 mH. The shunt capacitance at the circuit breaker terminal…
  2. GATE 2020 EE Q18 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A lossless transmission line with 0.2 pu reactance per phase uniformly distributed along the length of the line, connecting a generator bus to a load…
  3. GATE 2022 EE Q13 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The most commonly used relay, for the protection of an alternator against loss of excitation, is
  4. GATE 2023 EE Q20 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – For the three-bus power system shown in the figure, the trip signals to the circuit breakers B 1 to B 9 are provided by overcurrent relays R 1 to R 9,…
  5. GATE 2026 EE Q39 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – In the circuit shown, the phase currents are I A=572.812+j50.115 A I B=-254.525-j459.175 A I C=-207.083+j444.091 A Given that the CTs are ideal with…
  6. GATE 2026 EE Q40 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The operating characteristic of a reactance relay is given by X1\ , where X is the reactance calculated by the relay. Its operating characteristic in…