A PROJECT REPORT

ON

Electric Traction

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

of University of Mumbai for the degree of

Bachelor of Engineering
In
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Under the Guidance of

Prof. Shridevi Nair

Department of Electrical Engineering

Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College of Engineering and Technology

Kamothe, Navi Mumbai-410209

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
2019-20

CERTIFICATE
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This is to certify that Project entitled “ELECTRICAL FAULTS AND ITS SAFETY
MEASURES” is a bonafied work of

Submitted to the UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI in partial fulfilment of

The requirement of award of the degree of “Undergraduate” in Third Year Electrical

Engineering for the course Business Communication.

Subject In Charge Head of Department

Prof. Shridevi Nair Prof. Shashiprabha

PREFACE

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

First and foremost, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our lecturer Mrs.
Shridevi Nair Ma’am for her guidance and advice on this project. At the same time, I
also won’t forget my group participants and also friends too because they quite good with
sharing some of their information to complete this whole project successfully. Last but not
least, we are very graceful to our college, lecturer and friends where they give us enough
of time to complete this project and at the same time, we would like to thank our friends
and classmates who help us a lot to complete this project.

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ABSTRACT

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CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 OBJECTIVES
1.2 PROPERTIES
2. WHAT IS FAULT?
3. TYPES OF ELECTRICAL FAULT
3.1 SYMMETRICAL FAULT
3.2 UNSYMMETRICAL FAULT
4. CASES IN WHICH FAULT MAY OCCUR
5. COMMON ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS AROUND THE HOME
6. CAUSES OF ELECTRICAL FAULT
7. EFFECTS OF ELECTRICAL FAULT
8. WHAT IS PROCTECTIVE RELAY?
9. DEVICES USED TO REDUCE ELECTRICAL FAULTS
9.1 MCB
9.2 RCCB
9.3 OUVB
9.4 SPD
10. PROTECTION DEVICES
11. SAFETY MEASURES OF ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT
12. ELECTRICAL SAFETY SYMBOLS
13. CONCLUSION
14. REFERENCES
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1. INTRODUCTION

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1.1 OBJECTIVES

1.2 PROPERTIES

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2. WHAT IS FAULT?

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3. TYPES OF ELECTRICAL FAULTS

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