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Synchronous Motor Operation Insights

The document discusses synchronous motors and how changing different factors like excitation, field current, and power factor can affect their operation and performance. It also discusses differences between wound rotor asynchronous motors and squirrel cage induction motors.

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Synchronous Motor Operation Insights

The document discusses synchronous motors and how changing different factors like excitation, field current, and power factor can affect their operation and performance. It also discusses differences between wound rotor asynchronous motors and squirrel cage induction motors.

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Chiranjib Mukherjee
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Solution:

1. If the excitation of salient synchronous motor is reduced to zero,it acts as reluctance motor due
to reluctance torque in salient pole machines.

Thus answer is : b) A synchronous motor becomes a reluctance motor

2. For change in power factor I2R loss changes and it is related with armature in three-phase
alternator. For change in power factor also armature reaction changes.

Thus answer is a) 1,3

3. For high starting torque a wound rotor asynchronous motor is preferred over a squirrel cage
induction motor.

Thus answer is: a) Where high starting torque is required

4. When field current of a synchronous motor is continuously increased for reverse power factor of
0.8 then:
i) Power factor up to a certain field current value increases and then decreases.
ii) The armature current decreases until a certain field current value and then increases.

Thus answer is b) 3,4.

5. When a ynchronous machine has a field winding on the rotor and a polyphase armature winding
on the stator,then air gap flux
i) Rotating at synchronous speed Ns with respect to the stator
ii) Fixed with respect to the rotor
iii) The rotor rotating at a speed of Ns in the direction of rotation.

Thus answer is: d) 2, 4, 5  

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