This wind farm needs a 250 km connection laid to Sommerville. The choice is either a 3 phase system or a bipolar dc system at 400 kV and ±400 kV at the receiving end respectively. (i) The 3-phase system has resistive losses per phase of 0.1 Ω/km. Calculate the system losses (in watts) when delivering 0.8 GW. (ii) The bipolar dc system has resistive losses of 0.1 Ω/km. Calculate the system losses (in watts) when delivering 0.8 GW. (iii) Calculate the efficiencies of the two systems. (iv) Comment on which system you would choose to use and why.
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This wind farm needs a 250 km connection laid to Sommerville. The choice is either a 3 phase system or a bipolar dc system at 400 kV and ±400 kV at the receiving end respectively.
(i) The 3-phase system has resistive losses per phase of 0.1 Ω/km. Calculate the system losses (in watts) when delivering 0.8 GW.
(ii) The bipolar dc system has resistive losses of 0.1 Ω/km. Calculate the system losses (in watts) when delivering 0.8 GW.
(iii) Calculate the efficiencies of the two systems.
(iv) Comment on which system you would choose to use and why.
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