Appendix II

1. Specialised Mechanical course or Operating and Supervisory Staff who will be engaged on the mechanical side of the power plant.

Item No	Particulars	Number of hours
I.	Corrosion of boiler and auxiliaries, condenser and feed water heating plant. Scale formation in boiler in relation to water conditions.	7
II	Acid cleaning and preservation of boiler. Mechanical removal of scale and deposits from boilers where acid cleaning is not advisable. High pressure water jet equipment.	14
III.	Annual boiler and auxiliaries overhaul-hydraulic test, floating of safety valves, preventive and breakdown, maintenance of boiler auxiliaries	10
IV	Efficient operation of boilers-interpretation of gas analysis	8
V	Constructional details of hydraulic and other types of	5
VI.	Constructional details of various types of pumps, their drives and automatic starting, air-conditioning. Constructional	9
VII	Coal handling plant: (i) Sequential operation. (ii) Conveyor and conveyor drives. (iii) Tensioning arrangements. (iv) Maintenance of guide rollers. (v) Sway switches/slip switches. (vi) Beatle charger for wagon marshalling. (vii) Wagon tipplers and coal crushers, .weighing of coal different types of weighing bridges and weight meters storage problems and prevention of spontaneous combustion. Sampling of coal/British Standards Specification/Indian Standards Specification procedure and proximate analysis.	8
VIII	Water treatment-hardness, pH value clarifiers, treatment, phosphate and hydrasine dosing, base exchangers.	6
IX.	Annual overhaul and inspection of turbine and auxiliary	10
IX.	X. Maintenance practice-Valve grinding methods, high 6	6
IX.	XI. Indian Boiler Relations and other statutory regulations.	4
XII	Workshop, fabrication of spares repairs and maintenance of mechanicaJ equipments such as vehicles, tractors, dozers, shunters, cranes and hoists welding-modem techniques and their applications in maintenance of boilers, turbine and associated plant.	10
XIII	Composition, properties and behaviours of engineering	8
		105
	Common course for mechanical and electrical supplementary course for mechanical	186 105
	Total Hours	291

2. Specialised electrical course for operating and supervisory staff who will be engaged in

Item No	Particulars	Number of hours
I	Generator protection-earth fault, rotor and stator, negative	15
II.	Transformer, protection, Buchholz relay, over current,	6
III	Transformer, commissioning dielectric strength of oil,	6
IV	Circuit breakers, commissioning and maintenance, isolators, disconnectors, busbar arrangements, charging, synchronising with the grid, disconnecting for repairs, maintenance of switch-gear contractors.	8
V	Maintenance of equipments in the outdoor switchyard, protection.	6
VI	Cables, control, High voltage and Extra-high voltage types, layouts, testing and maintenance.	8
VII	Principle of electronic controls and transistorised circuits.	5
VIII	Pneumatic and di-electric transmitters and receivers, servomotors.	6
IX	Interlocking sequential control circuits, details of components used.	7
X	Calibration and testing of various types of instruments,	8
XI	Statutory Electricity Acts and Rules, permit procedure.	4
XII.	Staring and control equipments of various types of motors, Stations Battery-care and maintenance, trickle charging and extended charging, operation and maintenance of rectifiers, and battery chargers.	8
XIIl	Economic load despatch, power system control and operation, MVAR-control, voltage regulation and frequency control, carrier current equipments, telephones, telemetering.	5
XIV	Station emergency lighting arrangements.	1
		93
	Common Course for electrical and mechanical Supplementary course for electrical Total Hours	186 93 279