To get admission in M.Sc in Electrical Power Engineering program at Purbanchal University (constituent and affiliated colleges), the applicant should appear and pass the entrance examination. The entrance syllabus and the marks of each subjects is given in the table below.
The total duration of the entrance exam is 2 hours only.
Details of the contents:
| Subject(s) | Marks |
| Circuit Theory, Basic Electronics and Instrumentation | 15 |
| Power System, Switchgear and Protection, High Voltage Engineering | 40 |
| Power Electronics and Control Theory | 10 |
| Electrical Machines, Energy Utilization and Conservation | 20 |
| Aptitude | 15 |
| Total Marks | 100 |
Circuit Theory, Basic Electronics and Instrumentation:
i. Electric Circuits: Network graph, KCL, KVL, Node and Mesh analysis, DC/AC circuit analysis, phase circuits, Power and power factor in ac circuits. Transient response: Transient response analysis for R-L, R-C & R-L-C circuits, Laplace Transform, Fourier Series and transform, Pole zero plots, Two port Networks: Z - parameters, Y-parameters & ABCD-parameters.
ii. Basic Electronics: Characteristics of diodes, BJT, MOSFET; Simple diode circuits: clipping, clamping, rectifiers; Amplifiers: Biasing, Equivalent circuit and Frequency response; Oscillators and Feedback amplifiers; Operational amplifiers: Characteristics and applications; Simple active filters, VCOs and Timers, Combinational and Sequential logic circuits, Multiplexer, De-multiplexer, Schmitt trigger, Sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters, 8085 Microprocessor: Architecture, Programming and Interfacing.
iii. Instrumentation: Bridges and Potentiometers, Measurement of voltage, current, power, energy and power factor; Instrument transformers, Digital voltmeters and multi-meters, Phase, Time and Frequency measurement; Oscilloscopes, Error analysis.
Power System, Switchgear and Protection, High Voltage Engineering
i. Power System: Power generation concepts, ac and dc transmission concepts, Modelling and performance of transmission lines and cables, ABCD constants and power flow equations, Series and shunt compensation, Electric field distribution , GaussSeidel and Newton-Raphson load flow methods, Voltage and Frequency control, Power factor correction, Per unit system, Symmetrical components, Symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis: fault currents, node voltages during fault, System stability concepts, swing equation ; Equal area criterion , stability enhancements ,Power control: Load -frequency control, VAR-Volt control.
ii. Switchgear and Protection: Concept of switchyard components, Relays and its types, circuit breaker, theory of ARC quenching, DC and AC circuit breaking, transient recovery voltage, Recovery voltage, Rate of rise of TRV and RV, Re-striking Voltage, frequency of oscillation, Principle of overcurrent, differential and distance protection; transformer protection, alternator protection, feeder and line protection, solid state relays and digital protection; and, Safety Engineering: Electric shocks, Equipment Earthing.
iii. High Voltage Engineering: Generation, testing; Switching and lightening overvoltage, Protection against overvoltage, Dielectric breakdown- Gaseous Breakdown-Vacuum breakdown, Corona discharges and EMI, Insulation coordination
Power Electronics and Control Theory
i. Power Electronics: Characteristics of semiconductor power devices: Diode, Thyristor, TRIAC, GTO, MOSFET, IGBT; DC to DC conversion: Buck, Boost and Buck-Boost, Single and three phase configuration of uncontrolled rectifiers, Line commutated thyristor based converters, Bidirectional ac to dc voltage source converters, Issues of line current harmonics, Power factor, Distortion factor of ac to dc converters, Single phase and three phase inverters, Sinusoidal pulse width modulation
ii. Control Theory: Mathematical modeling and representation of systems, Feedback principle, transfer k diagrams and Signal flow graphs, Transient and Steady State analysis of linear time invariant systems, Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist criteria, Bode plots, Root loci, Stability analysis, Lag, Lead and Lead-lag compensators; P, PI and PID controllers, State Space model, State transition matrix.
Electrical Machines, Energy Utilization and Conservation
i. Electrical Machines: Single phase transformer: equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, open circuit and short circuit tests, regulation and efficiency; Three phase transformers: connections; DC machines: separately excited, series and shunt, motoring and generating mode of operation and their characteristics, starting and speed control of dc motors; Three phase induction motors: construction, operation, types, performance, characteristics, no-load and blocked rotor tests, equivalent circuit, starting and speed control; Construction and operation of single phase induction motors; Synchronous machines: construction, performance, regulation and parallel operation, starting of synchronous motor, characteristics; Losses and efficiency of electric machines.
ii. Utilization of Electrical Energy: Choice of electric drives and applications; traction motors and electric braking, train movement and energy consumption; Design of illumination systems and various lighting schemes; Electric heating methods of electric heating and its types; Hydro-generation: Power output equation, components, site selection, turbine and generator selection.
Aptitude
This will cover quantitative and analytical ability test to solve real world problems.
