Power Plant Engineering

Brahmapuram Diesel Power Project

Introduction

 
    Presently Kerala depends on Hydro electric, Thermal, Diesel and non-conventional methods for power. We have our main supply of power from hydroelectric power plants which are 19 in number. We use hydroelectric plant for the base load and thermal and diesel for peak loads.

    In Kerala, we have 3 diesel power plants in Kozhikode, Brahmapuram and [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering: Indian Railways

Train Lighting

 
Generation alternators

 
The KEL 4.5KW Train Lighting System consists of a three-phase homopolar inductor type alternator and a static Regulator-cum-Rectifier Unit. Such brushless alternators render a trouble free long service without practically any maintenance, as it is completely free for many moving contacts or winding on rotor. The regulator has been designed for a reliable [...]

Portable power – over the years

 
Portable power – over the years

In today’s fast moving world, what we need is continuous uninterrupted power. All through the years we have been using different forms of batteries to stay mobile. In the earlier stages we had lead-acid storage media, and then came the nickel-cadmium batteries which happen to be the most commonly used [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering : WS Industries India (WSI) Ltd

Introduction

WS Industries India (WSI) Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of high voltage electro-porcelain transmission and sub-station insulators, for the transmission and distribution network catering to the needs of the ever burgeoning power sector. In fact it is Asia’s second largest manufacturer of porcelain insulators after NGK, Japan. In addition to serving the local market, the [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering : Power Grid substation

INTRODUCTION 

The 400KV Power Grid substation at Pallipuram is fed by two 400 kV feeders from Madurai. The substation is a part of 400kV National Power Grid. It comes under the direct control of National Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. It was commissioned in 26th of July, 2005.

The substation feeds KSEB’s 220kV Pothencode substation. [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering : NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES

NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES

 
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is India’s pre-eminent civil R&D establishment in aeronautics and allied disciplines. NAL was set up at Delhi in 1959 and moved to Bangalore in 1960.NAL’s primary objective, as articulated in its new Vision Statement, is the “development of aerospace [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering : SOUTHERN RAILWAY

SOUTHERN RAILWAY

 
    The Southern Railway’s Electrical Section has the following sections which come under it:

 
1) Train Lighting

 
    The Train Lighting section takes care of the various electrical systems on board a train coach, which supplies power for coach lighting, etc. This system has the following parts:

Generation Alternators:

 
The 4.5KW Train Lighting System consists of a three-phase homopolar inductor [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering : Transformers and Electrical Kerala Limited (TELK)

Introduction

 
    Transformers and Electrical Kerala Limited (TELK) is located at Cochin, Kerala State, in the southern tip of India. TELK manufactures Extra High Voltage Power Transformers (upto 315MVA, 420kV) and other equipments (CT, PT, SF6 Circuit Breakers and reactors). The company has technical as well as financial collaboration with Hitachi Ltd., Japan from 1965.

 
    TELK is renowned [...]

Industrial Training Reports – Electrical Engineering : Pallivasal Power Plant

Introduction

 
Pallivasal Power Plant is the first Power Project in Kerala. It was inaugurated in 1940. Though it was started as a 200 kw installation in 1928 by the Kannan Devan Hill Produce Co., it was upgraded to large scale plant later to meet the increased demand for power in Kerala. At present the power station [...]