Appendix IV

1. SPECIALISED ELECTRICAL COURSE FOR SKILLED PERSONS WHO WILL BE
ENGAGED ON THE ELECTRICAL SIDE OF 1HE POWER PLANT

Item No	Particulars	Number of hours
I	Alarm systems-visual and audible.	2
II.	Isolators, circuit breakers and contractors.	3
III	Earthing and neutral grounding, necessity of, methods for, safety rules while handling electrical equipments	4
IV	Motor winding and repairs.	4
V	Maintenance of internal telephones and primary air systems.	3
VI	Meggering and testing of wiring and cable faults.	3
VII	Maintenance of electrical motors.	6
VIII	Maintenance of electrical switch-gear	8
IX	Fuses-rewirable type-cartridges type high rupturing capacity fuse, constructional features of fuse and fuse sockets, knife type high rupturing capacity fuses-use of pullers for insertion and removal, colour code for fuse rating.	8
X	Motor starters and their applications-direction line, star-delta, rotor resistance.	5
XI.	Meggers, avometers, voltmeters, ammeters, wattmeters, energy meters-general information about their use.	6
XII.	Maintenance of transformers and tap changer.	6
XIII	Jointing of low and medium voltage cables.	4
XIV	Connections, earthing, principles of operation of all small distribution transformers.	2
XV	Current and potential transformers, purpose, connection and use.	2
XVI.	Various types of drive.	2
XVII	Elementary knowledge of engineering materials and their properties.	2
XVIII.	Lubrication and cooling system.	4
		74
	Common course for electrical and mechanical	82
	Supplementary course for electrical	74
	Total Hours	156

2. SPECIALISED MECHANICAL COURSE FOR SKILLED PERSONS WHO WILL BE ENGAGED IN THE MECHANICAL SIDE OF THE POWER STATION

Item No	Particulars	Number of hours
I.	Types of bearings and their uses.	3
II	Types of valves, safety valve, suction valve, delivery valve, non-return valve, bypass valve, drain valve, air release valve, control valve, float operated valve, solenoid operated and pneumatically operated valve and their applications.	5
III.	Pressure gauges-Bourden type gauge, monometer, vacuum, gauge, barometer principles of operation, absolute pressure, gauge and vacuum pressure and their inter-relationship.	5
IV.	Temperature indicators, mercury thermometers resistance thermometers, thermocouples, pyrometers, gas thermometers temperature alarm.	4
V	Level gauges-different types-level alarm.	3
VI	Flow meters-steam and water-general principles.	3
VII	Couplings-different types, rigid, flexible, magnetic and fluid couplings.	2
VIII	Clutches-different types and uses.	2
IX	Maintenance of pneumatic measuring instruments, servometers, powers cylinders and other thermostats monostats.	4
X.	Maintenance of instruments recorders, clocks.	4
XI	Vibration-general knowledge of their causes, effects, remedies, misalignment, womout bearings, vibration fed to foundations, cracking eccentricity and differential expansion, their causes, remedies.	5
		40
	Common course for electrical and mechanical	82
	Specialized course for mechanical	40
	Total Hours 122	122