GENCO Syllabus
GENCO Syllabus
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
1.Electrical Materials :
Circuit elements, network graph, KCL, KVL, Node and Mesh analysis, ideal current
and voltage sources, Thevenin’s, Norton’s, Superposition and Maximum Power
Transfer theorems, transient response of DC and AC networks, Sinusoidal steady
state analysis, basic filter concepts, two‐port networks, three phase circuits,
resonance, Magnetically coupled circuits, Gauss Theorem, electric field and potential
due to point, line, plane and spherical charge distributions, Ampere’s and Biot‐
Savart’s laws; inductance, dielectrics, capacitance; Maxwell’s equations.
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5. Systems and Signal Processing:
6.Control Systems:
7.Electrical Machines:
8. Power Systems:
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09. Power Plant Engineering:
Basic power generation concepts, Steam Power Plants with Sub- critical, critical and
super critical technology, Combustion Process, Gas Turbine Plant, Direct Energy
Conservation, Hydro Electric Power Plant , nuclear & Power from Non-conventional
sources, Introduction to Quality management and Environmental protection. Power
plant economics-Capital cost, Investment of fixed charges, operating cost,
arrangements for power distribution, load curves, connected load, maximum
demand, demand factor, average load, load factor, diversity factor, Environmental
considerations- Effluents from Power Plants and impact of environment, Pollution
and pollution standards-Methods of pollution control , Power plant components-
their theory and design, types and applications.
Basics of Semiconductor diodes and transistors and characteristics, Junction and field
effect transistors (BJT, FET and MOSFETS), Triacs, GTOs and IGBTs ‐ static
characteristics and principles of operation, triggering circuits, phase control rectifiers,
bridge converters ‐ fully controlled and half controlled, principles of choppers and
inverters, basic concepts of adjustable speed DC and AC drives, DC‐DC switched
mode converters, DC‐AC switched mode converters, resonant converters, high
frequency inductors and transformers, power supplies.
11. Thermodynamics:
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12. Heat-Transfer:
Modes of heat transfer; one dimensional heat conduction, resistance concept and
electrical analogy, heat transfer through fins; unsteady heat conduction, lumped
parameter system, Heisler's charts; thermal boundary layer, dimensionless
parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer, heat transfer correlations for
flow over flat plates and through pipes, effect of turbulence; heat exchanger
performance, LMTD and NTU methods; radiative heat transfer, Stefan- Boltzmann
law, Wien's displacement law, black and grey surfaces, view factors, radiation
network analysis.
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CGM(Adm)
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