EET301 Power System Engineering

CHAPTER 3: TRANSMISSION LINE (LINE MODEL)

Example 1

A 220 kV, 60 Hz, three phase transmission line is 40 km long. The resistance per phase is
0.15 Ω/km and the inductance per phase is 1.3263 mH/km. The shunt capacitance is
negligible. Use the short line model to find the voltage and power at the sending end and
the voltage regulation and efficiency when the line is supplying a three phase load of

(a) 381 MVA at 0.8 power factor lagging at 220 kV

(b) 381 MVA at 0.8 power factor leading at 220 kV

Solution

(a) The series impedance per phase/km

The total series impedance per phase

The receiving end voltage per phase is

The apparent power is

The current per phase is given by

The sending end voltage is

The sending end line-to-line voltage magnitude is

The sending end power is

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Voltage regulation is

Transmission line efficiency is

(b) The current for 381 MVA with 0.8 leading power factor is

The sending end voltage is

The sending end line-to-line voltage magnitude is

The sending end power is

Voltage regulation is

Transmission line efficiency is

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Example 2

A 345 kV, 60 Hz, three phase transmission line is 130 km long. The resistance per phase is
0.036 Ω per km and the inductance per km is 0.8 mH/km. The shunt capacitance is 0.0112
μF per km. The receiving end load is 270 MVA with 0.8 power factor lagging at 325 kV. Use
the medium line model to find the voltage and power at the sending end and the voltage
regulation.

Solution:

The series impedance per phase/km

The total series impedance per phase

Shunt admittance per phase/km

The total shunt admittance per phase

The ABCD constants of the nominal π model are

The receiving end voltage per phase is

The complex power at the receiving end is

The current per phase at the receiving end is given by

The sending end voltage is

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The sending end line-to-line voltage magnitude is

The sending end current is

The sending end power is

Voltage regulation is

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Example 3

A 765 kV, 60 Hz, three phase transmission line is 300 km long. The series impedance is z =
0.0165 + j0.3306 Ω per phase/km and the shunt admittance is y = j4.674 x 10-6 S per
phase/km. Evaluate the ABCD parameter and the equivalent π model.

Solution

The characteristic impedance

The propagation constant

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The ABCD parameter

The equivalent π model

Exercise

A 345 kV, three phase transmission line is 130 km long. The series impedance is z = 0.036 +
j0.3 Ω per phase/km and the shunt admittance is y = j4.22 x 10-6 S per phase/km. The
sending end voltage is 345 kV and the sending end current is 400 A at 0.95 power factor
lagging. Find the voltage, current and power at the receiving end and the voltage regulation.

(Answer: IR = 441.832 A; VR (L-L) = 330.68 kV; SR = 224.592 MW + 116.612 Mvar; %VR = 5.46%)

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