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Electric Motors and Drives - Third Edition Solutions to Review Questions - Chapter 8 1) The key here is that when the supply frequency is reduced from 50 Hz, the voltage is also reduced so that the magnitude of the air-gap flux density wave remains constant at its rated value. Under these conditions full torque is developed when the slip speed of the rotor (i.e. its speed relative to the synchronous travelling field) is the same as under rated conditions. At 50 Hz, the rated synchronous speed is 3000 rev/min and the rated speed is 2960 rev/min, so the full-torque slip speed is 40 rev/min. At 30 Hz the synchronous speed is 1800 rev/min. The slip speed for rated torque is 40 rev/min so the rotor speed is 1760 rev/min. Similarly when the frequency is 3 Hz the synchronous speed is 180 rev/min, so with a slip speed of 40 rev/min the rotor speed is 140 rev/min. 2) Because conditions on the rotor are the same as at 50 Hz, the rotor current is the same, i.e. 150 A. The rotor frequency is given by sf, where s is the slip and f is the supply frequency. The slip is given by:- Hence the slips at 50 Hz, 30 Hz and 3 Hz are 0.01333, 0.02222 and 0.22222 respectively, yielding rotor frequencies of 0.666 Hz in each case. Since the rotor current at rated torque is independent of the supply frequency, it follows that the corresponding referred (stator) current is also the same. In addition, the magnetising current will be the same because the flux is the same, so the total stator current will also be the same in all three cases, i.e. 60 A. We note that the question says estimate, and this is just as well because we have chosen to ignore the iron losses, which will not be independent of the supply frequency, and which will have an in-phase component of current associated with the loss. Because we are not told anything about how the loss varies with frequency, and because the loss component of the input current will be much smaller than the load componen