EX-603 (A) · Utilization of Electrical Engineering/Official Syllabus
Utilization of Electrical Engineering (EX-603 (A)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Illumination Engineering
- Nature of light
- Units
- Sensitivity of the eye
- Luminous efficiency
- Glare
- Production of light
- Incandescent lamps
- Arc lamps
- Gas discharge lamps – fluorescent lamps polar curves
- Effect of voltage variation on efficiency and life of lamps
- Distribution and control of light
- Lighting calculations
- Solid angle
- Inverse square and cosine laws
- Methods of calculations
- Factory lighting
- Flood lighting and street lighting
- Direct, diffused and mixed reflection & transmission factor
- Refractors
- Light fittings
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Unit 2
Heating, Welding And Electrolysis
- Electrical heating – advantages
- Methods and applications of electrical heating
- Resistance heating
- Design of heating elements
- Efficiency and losses control in heating
- Induction heating – core type furnaces
- Induction heating – core‑less furnaces
- Induction heating – high frequency eddy current heating
- Dielectric heating – principle and special applications
- Arc furnaces – direct arc furnaces
- Arc furnaces – indirect arc furnaces
- Electrodes and design of heating elements for arc furnaces
- Power supply and control for heating processes
- Different methods of electrical welding
- Resistance welding
- Arc welding
- Energy‑storage welding
- Laser welding
- Electron‑beam welding
- Electrical equipment for welding
- Arc furnace transformers and welding transformers
- Review of electrolytic principles
- Laws of electrolysis
- Electroplating
- Anodizing‑electro‑cleaning
- Extraction of refinery metals
- Power supply for electrolytic processes
- Current and energy efficiency
3
Unit 3
Traction
- Special features of traction motors
- Selection of traction motor
- Different systems of electric traction and their advantages and disadvantages
- Mechanics of train movement – simplified speed‑time curves for different services
- Average and schedule speed
- Tractive effort
- Specific energy consumption
- Factors affecting specific energy consumption
- Acceleration and braking retardation
- Adhesive weight
- Coefficient of adhesion
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Unit 4
Electric Drives
- Individual and collective drives – electrical braking
- Plugging
- Rheostatic and regenerative braking
- Load equalization
- Use of fly‑wheel criteria for selection of motors for various industrial drives
- Calculation of electrical loads for refrigeration and air‑conditioning
- Intermittent loading
- Temperature rise curve
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Unit 5
Introduction to Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
- Configuration and performance of electric vehicles
- Traction motor characteristics
- Tractive effort
- Transmission requirement
- Vehicle performance
- Energy consumption
Reference Books
- Open Shaw, Taylor. Utilization of electrical energy., Orient Longmans, 1962.
- H. Pratap, Art and Science of Utilization of Electrical Energy.
- Gupta, J.B., Utilization of Elect. Energy, Katariya and sons, New Delhi.
- Garg, G.C., Utilization of Elect. Power and Elect. Traction.
- N V Suryanarayan, Utilization of Elect. Power including Electric Drives and Elect. Traction, New Age International.
- Hancok N N, Electric Power Utilisation, Wheeler Pub.
- Mehrdad, Ehsani, Yimin Gao, Sabastien E. Gay, Ali Emadi, “Modern electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles”, CRC Press.
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