Laboratorio de Administración y
Monitoreo de la Energía
Práctica 3:
Circuitos trifásicos
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Objectives
• Improve your knowledge about electric circuits, specially in three-
phase circuits.
• Validate through experiments or simulations, and numerically the
load behavior under balance conditions using different connections
such as star and delta connections.
• Identify the active power loss related to the power transmission.
• Voltage drops caused by large impedances associated with the
transmission lines.
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Representation of a balanced three-phase
system
• The instantaneous voltages in a three-phase circuit are defined by:
• or
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Instantaneous value and phasor for balanced
three-phase circuits
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Power measurements
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Activity 1: simulations (star connection)
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Activity 1: simulations (delta connection)
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Steps
1. Identify the power supply (this is the main panel, “Sección de
Potencia”)
2. Identify the measurement system
3. Identify and handle the load system out in a proper way
4. Use the digital monitoring equipment or multimeter, and the
clamp meter (pinza amperimétrica)
5. Start it up and measure voltages and currents
6. Write down all read values in your notebook
7. Calculate the resistance per phase using all measured values
8. Report and compare the results considering a voltage line-to-line
of 220 V for all calculus.
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Fill out the following tables
Measured (Star connection)
Three-phase Single-phase
Load V line-to-line V per phase I line-to-line I per phase
power P power P
Rlt=1e-6Ω
Rlt=0.01 Ω
Rlt=0.1 Ω
Rlt=1 Ω
Rlt=2Ω
Measured (Star connection)
Power
Three-phase Single-phase
Load V per phase I per phase Transmission Load resistance
power P power P
losses per phase
500 W per phase
1000 W per phase
1500 W per phase
2000 W per phase
5000 W per phase
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Fill out the following tables
Measured (Delta connection)
Three-phase Single-phase
Load V line-to-line V per phase I line-to-line I per phase
power P power P
Rlt=1e-6Ω
Rlt=0.01 Ω
Rlt=0.1 Ω
Rlt=1 Ω
Rlt=2Ω
Measured (Delta connection)
Power
Three-phase Single-phase
Load V per phase I per phase Transmission Load resistance
power P power P
losses per phase
500 W per phase
1000 W per phase
1500 W per phase
2000 W per phase
5000 W per phase
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Electric circuit: Activity 1
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