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Valunjkar (Total Load: 209+120 Part-A=329)

CL. II FG (Old 63hrs. & New 63hrs.) 126 Hrs in 4 Months

MET 3.1 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 12 Hrs )

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Three Phase A.C. Motors –

(a) Construction,
(b) principle of operation of 3-phase induction motors,
(c) Design features of star and delta motors,
(d) Starting,
(e) speed controlling and braking methods of 3-phase induction motors,
(f) Load-torque characteristics and protection.

MET 3.2 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 3 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Three Phase Synchronous Motors –

(a) Construction.
(b) Principle of operation.
(c) Load characteristics,
(d) Power factor improvement with synchronous motors.

MET 3.3 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 3 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Effect of varying frequency and voltage of A.C. Motors –

(a) Speed,
(b) Temperature,
(c) Torque,
(d) Power output and Starting time,
(e) Current.
MET 3.4 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 6 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Motor control and protection –

(a) D. C. Motors
(b) A. C. Motors

MET 3.5 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 3 Hrs )

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) motor speed control –

(a) Gate driving characteristics with high current,

(b) High frequency,
(c) high current switch,
(d) Advantages of IGBT in varying motor speed control.

MET 3.6 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 3 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Motor speed control by Thyristors

(a) Application of thyristors in motor speed control

MET 3.7 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 6 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Three Phase Generators –

(a) Construction.
(b) Salient and cylindrical rotor types,
 (c) Shaft generators,
(d) Excitation methods,
(e) Automatic voltage regulation,
(f) Synchronization,
(g) Parallel operation,
(h) Generator trouble shooting.

MET 3.8 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 6 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Three Phase Transformers –

(a) Construction Polarity,

(b) Configurations in Star and Delta combinations,
(c) Open delta configuration.

MET 3.9 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 3 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Distribution –

(a) Main switchboard construction and configuration.

(b) Short circuit protection - fuses,
(c) main circuit breakers,
(d) the generator air circuit breaker,
(e) Protection co-ordination,
(f) Distribution configuration,
(g) Electrical equipment for tankers and hazardous areas and safety systems.

MET 3.10 – Design features and system configuration of operational control equipment for
electrical motors (Teaching Hours: 3 Hrs )

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Emergency Power –

(a) Automatic starting arrangements for the emergency generator,

(b) Emergency power requirements,
(c) Essential and non essential circuits,
(d) Batteries.
MET 4 – Electronics, Power Electronics (Teaching Hours: 9 Hrs)

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

(a) Semiconductor Devices –

1. Uni-junction transistor, The Bipolar transistor, operation and characteristics, bias

circuits, AC and DC current gain, data sheets.
2. Field Effect Transistors, operation. Thyristors, SCRs, GTOs, DIACs and TRIACs
operation and characteristics.
3. Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), Snubber circuits, commutation, data
sheets.
4. Device applications in electronic control, surveillance and recording systems, power
supplies, rectification, smoothing circuits, stabilization, switching, amplification,
pulse shaping, clipping and clamping.
5. PMOSFET (Power metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor).
6. Design features of cycloconverter, variable frequency drives and their applications
onboard ships.