// A Texbook on POWER SYSTEM ENGINEERING // A.Chakrabarti, M.L.Soni, P.V.Gupta, U.S.Bhatnagar // DHANPAT RAI & Co. // SECOND EDITION // PART II : TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION // CHAPTER 17: ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS // EXAMPLE : 17.1 : // Page number 422-423 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data no_phase = 3.0 // Number of phases in ac transmission system V = 380.0*10**3 // Voltage b/w lines(V) load = 100.0 // Load(MW) PF = 0.9 // Power factor l = 150.0 // Line length(km) n = 0.92 // Efficiency r = 0.045 // Resistance(ohm/km/sq.cm) w_cu_1 = 0.01 // Weight of 1 cm^3 copper(kg) // Calculations // Case(i) P_loss = (1-n)*load // Power loss in the line(MW) I_L = load*10**6/(3**0.5*V*PF) // Line current(A) loss_cu = P_loss/no_phase*10**6 // I^2*R loss per conductor(W) R = loss_cu/I_L**2 // Resistance per conductor(ohm) R_km = R/l // Resistance per conductor per km(ohm) area = r/R_km // Conductor area(Sq.cm) volume = area*100.0 // Volume of copper per km run(cm^3) W_cu_km = volume*w_cu_1 // Weight of copper per km run(kg) W_cu = no_phase*l*1000*W_cu_km // Weight of copper for 3 conductors of 150 km(kg) // Case(ii) W_cu_dc = 1.0/2*PF**2*W_cu // Weight of copper conductor in dc(kg) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 17.1 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nWeight of copper required for a three-phase transmission system = %.f kg", W_cu) printf("\nWeight of copper required for the d-c transmission system = %.f kg \n", W_cu_dc) printf("\nNOTE: Changes in the obtained answer from that of textbook is due to more precision")