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Practical No:-1
Objective:-

Study filtration and tretment of transformer oil

S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.

What are the use of trasformer oil?

1.
For insulation and cooling.

What is the relative permittyvity of tranformer oil?

2.
2.2-2.3.

What is the breakdown strength at 20 degree 2.5 mm 1 min. of

3. transformer oil ?

12kv/mm.

What is the specific gravity at 20 degree cent. of tansformer oil

4. 0.89

Write the maximum permissible water content in tranformer oil.

5.
50 ppm

Which dielectrics are used mostly?

6.
Petroleum oils.

What is the important properties of dielectric?

7.
Dielectric strength,electrical coductivity
 Which factor affect the dieletric strength
8.
Presence of some water droplet and fibrous impurities.

Which type of filters are used?

9.
Filter press and hard filter papers are more suitable.

10. Give the name of adsorbing agent?

1 fuller earth 2.silisa gel 3.molecular sieves.

11. What is test cell?.

In which oil is poured in a container.

What is electrostatic filter?

12.
The oil to treatedis passd between the two elctrodes placed in a
container.

What is centrifugal method?

13.
This method is helpful in patially extating solid impurites and
free water.
14. What should be the pressure in filtraton?
Greater than 0.1 torr.

15. What is Rasching-ring?

A large surface where oil is distributed.

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Practical No:-2
Objective:-
Determine dielectric strength of transformer oil
S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.
What is the dielectric strength of transformers oil?
Ans. The dielectric strength of new unrated oil is
1.
12MV/m(RMS) & after treatment it should be
>24MV/m(RMS).
What is the function of transformer oil?
Mainly for cooling & in solution purpose. On larger
2.
transformer the bucholz relay utilizes the oil as trip
mechanism for internal fault condition
 What is dielectric constant?
3. The dielectric constant is the ratio of the permittivity of a sub
stance to permitting of free space.
What is the colour of X-mer oil?
4.
The colour of x-mer oil is grey.
What is electrical conductivity?
It is the reciprocal of electrical resistivity. It is also called
5.
specific conductance and measures a martials ability to
conduct an current.
What is the value of breakdown of dielectric liquid?
6. At the value of 100KV/cm the conduction increases more
rapidly and breakdown takes place.
What are the contains of pure liquid?
7. It contains 200mg per ml and is in a base of vegetable
glycerine and 20% pure grain alcohol.

What is threshold condition?

8.

What do you mean by avalanche in liquid dielectric?

The liquid dielectric are used for filling transformer, object
and as impregnates in medium high voltage cable and
9. capacitors. It is mostly used in petroleum oil. Breakdown in
liquid on a model which is an extension of gaseous
breakdown, it is based on avalanche ionization of atoms
caused by electron collision in electric field.
10. Why transformer oil is used?
It is used for mainly cooling and insulation.
11. What is the minimum distance b/w sphere for this test?
The gap between the two sphere is 4mm.
What is cavity breakdown in liquid dielectric?
Dielectric strength of liquid depends upon the hydrostatic
12.
pressure above the gap length. When the hydrostatic pressure
goes higher the phase of liquid is changed & the breakdown
occurs is called cavity breakdown.
What happens when cavity occur in liquid?
13. When the cavity occurs the head of liquid gets smaller and
more are the changes of partially ionized gases coming out
of the gap & higher changes of breakdown.
14. Given the internal dimension of container used in this test?
Dimension is 55max. 100mm.
What is the acceptable value of voltage for 4mm gap length
15.
in sphere?
The value strata from 40% of the rapidly applied voltage.
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Practical No:-3
Objective:-
Determine capacitance and dielectric loss of an
insulating material using Schering bridge.

S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.

Schering bridge is used for measurement of?

1.
Capacitance

Fault location in an HV cable is done by?

2.
Partial discharge scanning test

Most important tests conducted on isolators are?

3.
Short circuit test

The charge associated with patial discharges in electrical

4. apparatus will be?

Pico coloumbs.

For HV cable insulation, the material used are?

5.
Paper oil insulation.

The insulation used in high voltage circuit breakers of large

6. power ratings?

SF6
7.
Gas insulation is now a days used in?
 Circuit breakers.

In Pd detectors partial discharge are displayed?

8.
Built in CRO with elliptic time base.

Partial discharge detector is a device that measures or

9. detects?

A partial discharge

10. Corona discharge is?

Partial discharge around a high voltage conductor.

11. Wagners eath is used with schering-bridge for?

Climinating stray capacitance and coupling.

12. The power supply used in resistivity measurement is?

500 to 2000v

13. Loss of charge method is used to determine?

Insulation resistance.

14. The equivalent circuit of a lossy capacitor or dielectric is?

R-C parallel circuit.

For resistivity and dielectric constant measurement the

15.
electrode system used is?

Three electrode.
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Practical No:-4
Objective:-
Study solid dielectrics used in power apparatus
S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.
Electrical conduction in gases was first studied by?
1.
Townsend
SF-6 is a?
2.
Electronegative Gas
Minimum Sparking Potential of Air Is?
3.
325V
The Requirement Of Gas For Insulation Purpose Is?
4.
High dielectric strength and thermal stability.
Transformer oil is ?
5.
Mineral oil
 The break down strength of mineral oil is about?
6.
30-40 Kv/mm
Dielectric constant of mineral oil is?
7.
2.2-2.4
Maximum dielectric strength obtain with pure liquid?
8.
100 Kv/mm
Which liquid has highest breakdown strength?
9.
Silicon oil
10.
Conduction and breakdown in commercial liquid is affected
by?
Solid particle , vapors , Electrode materials.
11. The intrinsic breakdown strength of solid dielectric is?
500 1000 Kv/mm
12. Paper insulators is mainly used in?
Cabals and capacitors.
13. The usual mechanism of breakdown in solid dielectrics?
Thermal Breakdown
14. Thermal classification of insulating material is done for?
Solids
15. Breakdown due to internal discharge develops?
In long duration of day

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Practical No:-5
Objective:-
Study and application of insulatig matterial.

S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.

What is insulation?
1.
To satisfactory operation of cables.
 What is main requrement of insulatig matterial?
2.
1.high insulation resistance 2.good mechnical properties etc.

Give the name of insulating materials?

3.
Glass,porcelain,steatite etc.

What is insulator?
4.
Insulator are useed to provide high resistance between line and
live part.

What is the requement of testing of insulator?

5.
1.temperature sesivity 2.mechnical strength 3.electrical
insulation.

What is cause of insulator failure?

6.
1.flash over 2.cracking of insulator 3.porosity of material etc.

Give the name of methods of improving string efficiency?

7.
1.by using longer cross arm 2.by grading the insulator 3.by using
guard ing

What is the use of stay insulators?

8.
In case of low voltage lines.

What is the advantage of suspension type insulator?

9.
If any one disc of is damaged,the hole string the whole string
does not becomes useless.
10. What is the string efficiency of HV lines?
80%.
11. What is the meaning of 100% string efficiency?
Zero potential across each disc.
12. Where are used generally pos type insulator?
In any voltage level hv,ehv.
13. What is the use of guard ring?
Equalise the voltage division between insulator disc.
14. Whch type of insulator are used for 132kv lines?
 Disc type.
15. What is corona?
Complete breakdown of air
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Practical No:-6
Objective:-
Study direct testing and indirect testing of circuit breakers
S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.
What is a circuit breaker?
1. It is a piece of equipment which can make or break a
circuit. Either manually or normal condition. Break circuit
automatically under faulty condition.
Why testing is performed on circuit breaker?

Circuit breaker testing is used to test to both the performance

2.
of individual switching mechanism and the timing of the
overall tripping system.

Which type of insulating material used in circuit breaker?

3. These are ceramic, query and stone. Ceramic tile starts with
clay shale, system and sand.
What is the main function of circuit breaker?
4. To make or break a circuit either manually or by remote
control under normal condition.
What is the ambient temperature?
Ambient temperature is a term which refers to the temp. In a
5.
room, or the temp. Which surrounds an object under
discussion. It is influenced by weather outside.
What is short circuit test?
6. These test access the primary performance of devices. i.e.
their ability to safely interrupt the fault current.
What is RRRV?
7.
RRRV means rate of rise of restricting voltage.
 How many type of test performing on circuit breaker?
8.
Direct test, indirect test, synthetic test.
For controlling rate of restricting voltage what is used?
It can be achieved by ionized partied in space between
9.
contacts to recombine into neutral molecules. Sweeping the
ionized particles away and replacing by un-ionized particles.
What is the value of test voltage of circuit breaker?
10.
The circuit breaker value of the rated value of the
Transmission line.
What is system nominal voltage?
11.
It is the rated voltage of an electric equipment. It is the
voltage at which device is designed to operated.
12. How many type of circuit breaker are used?
Oil circuit breaker, air-blast C.B., vacuum CB, SF6 CB.
What is short circuit current?
13. A low resistance connection established by accident or
intention b/w two points in an electric ckt. The current tends
to flow through the area of low resistance.
What is transient current?
14. Transient current can be occurred momentarily and
fleetingly in response to a stimulus or change in the each of
ckt.
What is transient current?
15.
Whenever on load current contact of ckt. Breaker open these
are in ckt. Breaker established b/w the separating contacts.
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Practical No:-7
Objective:-
Study high voltage testing of electrical equpment:line
insulator,cables,bushing,power capcitor and power
transformer.
S.No
Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.

What is insulator?
1.
Insulator are useed to provide high resistance between line and
live part.

What is reduced by bundle conductor?

2.
Surface electric stress of conductor

What is the effect of corona?

3.
Increased energy losses.

When the inductance of transmission line is minimum?

4.
GMD is low and GMR is high.
 What is used for full load compensation in lines?
5.
Shunt capacitor

What is used for no load compensation for HV lines?

6.
Shunt reactor

What is the advantage of underground cables?

7.
The voltage drop is less.

Whai is the advantage of overhead lines?

8.
The conductor are less expansive.

What are the main part of underground cables?

9.
Core,insulation,metalic sheath,bedding etc.

What is main properties of insulatig material for cables?

10.
High resistivity,high dielectric strength,low permittivity etc.

What is LV cables?
11.
These are used for voltage below 1 kv.

What is synchronous condensor?

12.
Synchrnous motar.

What is power capacitor?

13.
To compensate the reactive power.

Why capacitor are used?

14.
Improve voltage regulation.

What is the surge impedance value for cables?

15.
Lower than those of over head lines.
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Practical No:-8
Objective:-
Design an EHV transmission line.
S.No Viva Questions (to be answered in the Lab file)
.
1. What is EHV transmission line?
For operating voltage is 400-765 kv.
2. What is advantage of EHV?
For increase power transfer capacity.
3. On which basis of conductor of EHV line is selected?
Corona and RI perfomance
4. What is the range of frequency of resonant vibration ?
50-100Hz
5. What is use of bundle conductor?
Power loss due to corona

6. What is the use of series capacitor in transmission lines?

Copensate the voltage drop.
7. What is booster?
A series wound dc generator driven by dc shunt generator.
8. What is the use of booster?
Compensate for voltage drop.
9. What is use of series capacitor in disribution lines.
To provide reactive power compensation
Why high transmission line are transposed?
10.
Phase voltage imbalances can be minimized
What is need of transposed tranmisson line?
11.
Prevent interfacing with neighbouring telephone lines.
On which depends the breakdown voltage?
12.
Presence of moisture,operating temprature etc.
On which factor corona losses depends?
13.
Diameter of conductor.
Where is skin effect exist?
14.
Ac transmission only.
In suspension type which insulator having high voltage?
15.
Maximum across the lowest disc.