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Electrical Engineering
ESE CONVENTIONAL TEST – III
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 200

INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of the following instructions carefully before
attempting questions.
Candidates should attempt FIVE questions in all. Question No.1 is
compulsory. Out of the remaining SIX questions attempt any FOUR.
All questions carry equal marks.
The number of marks carried by a part of a question is indicated
against it.
Answers must be written in ENGLISH only.
Assume suitable data, if necessary and indicate the same clearly.
Unless otherwise mentioned, symbols and notations have their usual
standard meanings.
Neat sketches may be drawn, wherever required.
All parts and sub-parts of a question are to be attempted together in
the answer book.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in chronological order.
Unless struck off, attempt of a question shall be counted even if
attempted partly.
Any pages left blank in the answer book must be clearly struck out.

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01. (a) The following data were obtained on a 20 kVA, 50Hz,
2000/200V distribution transformer:

Voltage Current
Power(W)
(V) (A)

OC test
with HV
200 4 120
open-
circuited

SC test
with LV
60 10 300
short-
circuited

Calculate the efficiency if the LV side is loaded fully at 0.8

power factor. What is the maximum efficiency of the
transformer at this power factor and at what pu load would
it be achieved? (4M)
(b) A 240V/120V, 12kVA transformer has full-load unity pf
efficiency of 96.2%. It is connected as an auto-transformer
to feed a load at 360 V. What is its rating and full-load
efficiency at 0.85 pf lagging? (4M)
(c). What are the terms air-gap power, internal mechanical
power developed and shaft power? How are these terms
related with each other? (4M)
(d).Discuss briefly various speed control techniques for
Induction motors (Both squirrel cage and wound rotor
types). (4M)

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(e) A 2200/220 V, 1-phase transformer has maximum possible
voltage regulation of 6% and it occurs at a p.f. of 0.3. Find
the load voltage at full-load at p.f. of 0.8 lead. (4M)
(f) Clearly differentiate between combinational and sequential
circuits. (4M)
(g) Convert following Hex numbers into their equivalent
numbers in base-4 number system. (4M)
(i) 315 (ii) 9E

(h) What is wired logic? What are the applications of open

collector TTL gates? For the circuit shown find expression
for Y. What logical function is performed by the circuit?
(4M)
A
B
Y
C
D

(i) Consider a synchronous counter circuit that contains six FFs

with the outputs as Q5, Q4, Q3, Q2, Q1, Q0

(i) Determine the counter’s MOD number.

(ii) Determine the frequency at the output of the last FF
(Q5) when the input clock frequency is 1 MHz
(iii)What is the range of counting states for this counter?
(iv)Assume a starting state (count) of 000000. What will be
the counter’s state after 129 pulses? (4M)

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(j). An 8-bit DAC produces Vout = 0.05 V for a digital input of
00000001. What is the step size of the DAC? What is its
full scale output? What is the percentage resolution? What
is Vout for an input of 00101010? (4M)

02. (a) The parameters of the equivalent circuit of a 150-kVA,

2400/240-V transformer are: (12M)
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R1 = 0.2 Ω R2 = 2 × 10 Ω
X1 = 0.45 Ω X2 = 4.5 × 10–3 Ω
Ri = 10 kΩ Xm = 1.6 kΩ (as seen from 2400-V side)
Calculate
(i) Open-circuit current, power and pf when LV is
excited at rated voltage
(ii) The voltage at which the HV should be excited to
conduct a short-circuit test (LV shorted) with full-load
current flowing. What is the input power and its pf?
(b) A 4–pole, 50 Hz double cage induction motor has the
following per phase parameters referred to stator.
Stator; r1 = 0.5 , x1 = 1.5 
Rotor; top –cage; r2 = 2 , x2 = 0.6 
Bottom cage, r3 = 0.4 , x3 = 3.4 
The primary in delta is energized from 400V. Calculate the
starting torque at 4% slip and full–load torque at 4% slip
using the approximate equivalent circuit. Find also the pf at
starting and at full–load. (20M)
(c) Explain the necessary and sufficient conditions for parallel
operation of Transformers. (8M)
03. (a) Simplify the Boolean functions:
i) f(x1,x2,x3,x4)=m(0,1,3,4,5,6,7,9,12,13, 14)
ii) ABC + AD + A (B + C) + A C  A D
iii) f(ABC) = [A  B  AB] [A  C  AC] (15M)
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(b) Specify the truth table for a half subtractor circuit and
realize the circuit using AND-OR gates. How two half
subtractors can be combined to obtain a full subtractor?
Using half subtractor and full subtractors draw and explain
the block schematic of a 4-bit parallel binary subtractor.
(15M)
(c) Explain the working of a R – 2R ladder DAC and show how
R – 2R DAC converts the binary word 1010101 to an
analog output. Find the magnitude of the output given
Vref = 10 V. (10M)

04. (a) A 20-kVA. 50-Hz, 2000/200-V distribution transformer has

a leakage impedance of 0.42 + j0.52 in the high-voltage
(HV) winding and 0.004 + j 0.05 in the low-voltage (LV)
winding. When seen from the LV side, the shunt branch
admittance Y0 is (0.002  j 0.015) ℧ (at rated voltage and
frequency). Draw the equivalent circuit referred to (a) HV
side and (b) LV side, indicating all impedances on the
circuit. (20M)

(b) A squirrel-cage induction motor has a slip of 4% at full

load. Its starting current is five times full-load current. The
stator impedance and magnetizing current may be
neglected; the rotor resistance is assumed constant.
(i) Calculate the maximum torque and the slip at which it
would occur.
(ii) Calculate the starting torque.
Express torques in pu of the full-load toque. (8M)

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(c) A 5 kW, 400 V, 50 Hz, 4 pole delta connected 3 –phase
induction motor is supplied by a cable of negligible
inductance. On starting the motor using a star-delta starter,
it is found that the starting toque is same on star as well as
delta connection due to the voltage drop in the feeder
resistance. The equivalent circuit parameters of the motor
are as follows :
R1=1 ohms R2’=1.4 ohms X1=X2’=4.5 ohms
Determine feeder resistance
(i) 5.697 ohms (ii) 6.013 ohms
(iii) 4.981 ohms (iv) 5.378 ohms (12M)

05. (a) Design a counter that goes through states 0, 1, 2, 4 0, ……..

The undesired (unused) states must always go to zero (000)
on the next clock pulse. Use D flip flops for the
construction of the counter. Is the counter self starting?
(15M)
(b) Implement the following Boolean function using an 8 : 1
multiplexer. Consider W, X, Y as the selection lines and Z
as the input.
F(W, X, Y, Z) = WX  XZ  XYZ (10M)

(c) A combinational circuit has three inputs A, B and C, and an

output F. F is true only for the following input
combinations:
A is false and B is true
A is false and C is true
A, B and C are all false
A, B and C are all true.
(i) Write the Truth table for F. Use the convention,
true = 1and false = 0.

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(ii) Write the simplified expression for F as a Sum of
products.
(iii)Write the simplified expression for F as a product of
Sums.
(iv)Draw a logic circuit implementation of F using the
minimum number of 2-input NAND gates only.
(10M)

(d) Clearly differentiate between Synchronous and

Asynchronous counters (5M)

06. (a) A 6.6 kV/400 V, 75 kVA single-phase transformer has a

series reactance of 12% (0.12 pu).
(i) Calculate the reactance in ohms referred to LV and HV
sides
(ii) Three such transformers are connected in Star-Star,
calculate
(x) the line voltage and kVA rating
(y) pu reactance of the bank
(z) series reactance in ohms referred to HV and LV
sides
(iii)Repeat part(ii) if the bank is connected star on HV side
and delta on LV side. (12M)
(b) A three – phase 440 V distribution circuit is designed to
supply not more than 1200 amperes. Assuming that a three–
phase squirrel cage induction motor has full–load efficiency
of 0.85 and a full–load power factor of 0.8 and that the
starting current at rated voltage is 5 times the rated full–load
current. What is the maximum permissible kW rating of the
rated motor.
(i) if it is to be started at full voltage?
(ii) if it is to be started using an auto–transformer stepping
down the voltage to 80%
(iii)if it is designed for use with a star–delta starter? (8M)
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(c) Design a parallel counter using only JK flip flops, AND,

OR gates which counts in the sequence
000,111,101,110,001,010,000 --------- (20M)

07. (a) A 4-pole, 400 V, 10 kW slip ring 3-phase induction motor

has rotor resistance = 0.16 ohm per phase and standstill
reactance = 0.27 ohm per phase. The voltage across the slip
rings at standstill is 141 V per phase. The motor develops a
torque of 62.4 Nm at a slip of s = 0.035 and rotor current of
31.1 A. Find the magnitude and phase of emf to be injected
to the rotor circuit so that the motor runs at s = 0.02 and
develops the same torque. (10M)

(b) Two single phase electric furnaces A and B are supplied at

220V from a 3-phase 1100V supply by means of a Scott-
connected transformer combination. If the total output is
600 kW at 0.6 power factor lagging determine the currents
in the winding and transformation ratio of each transformer.
(15M)

(c) The notation x1x0 represents a two bit binary number that
can have any value (00, 01, 10, or 11); for example, when
x1 = 1 and x0 = 0, the binary number is 10, and so on.
Similarly, y1y0 represents another two bit binary number.
Design a logic circuit, using x1, x0, y1 and y0 inputs, whose
output will be HIGH only when the two binary numbers
x1x0 and y1y0 are equal. (15M)