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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS APPSC MANAGER (ENGINEERING) IN HYDERABAD METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE BOARDS

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS

I. Electrical Circuits:
Basic electrical laws, Analysis of DC networks, transient response of RLC networks excited  by  impulse,  step,  ramp  and  sinusoidal  excitations.    Transform    methods,  transfer functions, poles and zeros steady state AC networks, frequency domain analysis, resonance, coupled  circuits,  two  port  networks,  three  phase  networks,  power  in  a.c.  networks,  power measurement in 3-phase networks.

II. E.M. Theory:
  Electro static and electro magnetic fields, vector methods, Fields in dielectric, conducting and  magnetic  materials,  Laplace  and  Poisson’s  equation.    Time  varying  fields,  Maxwell’s equation, Poynting Theory, properties of transmission lines.

III. Electrical measurement and Instruments:

Electrical standards, Error analysis, Measurement of current, voltage, power, energy, power  factor,  resistance,  inductance  capacitance  frequency  and  loss  angle.    Indicating instruments, extension of range of instruments, DC  and AC bridges.  Electronic measuring instruments.    Electronic  multimeter,  CRO, frequency  counter,  digital  voltmeter,  transducers, Thermocouples, Thermistor, LVDT, strain gauges, Piezo electric crystal, Measurement of non-electrical quantities like, pressure, velocity, temperature, flow rate, displacement acceleration and strain.

IV. Control Systems 
Open and closed loop control systems, Mathematical modeling, block diagram, signal flow graphs, time response and frequency response of linerar systems, error constants and series Rootlocus technique, Bodeplot, polar plot, M-circles, N-circles, Nichol’s charts, stability, Routh Hurwitz criteria.  Nyquist stability criteria, compensators, design in frequency domain. Control system components.  Servo motors, synchros, tacho generator, error detector.  State variable approach, modeling, state transition matrix, transfer function, response.

V. Electronics:
Solid state devices and circuits.  Small and large signal-amplifiers with and  without feedback  at  audio  and  radio  frequency,  multistage  amplifiers.    Operational  amplifiers  and applications.  Integrated  circuits  oscillators,  RC,  LC  and  crystal  oscillators  wave  form generators, multi-vibrators – Digital circuits, Logic gates, Boolean algebra combinational and sequential circuits.  A to D and D to A converters Micro processors (8085) instruction set, memories,  interfacing  programmable  peripheral  devices  –  Number  system  flow  charts  – expressions and statements in C – language – simple programs for engineering application.

VI.  D.C. ELECTRICAL MACHINES:
Fundamentals of electro mechanical energy conversion, constructional features of D.C. Machines,  emf  equation  types  and  characteristics  of  generators  application,  Torque  in  DC motor, types of DC motors, applications.  Testing of D.C. motors, efficiency, and starting and speed control.

VII. TRANSFORMERS:
Construction – Principle of operation of 1-phase transformers – Vector diagram on No Load and – Load – Parallel operation – Regulation – efficiency – Equivalent circuit 3 phase transformer connections – Scott connection.

VIII. INDUCTION MOTORS:
Production of rotating magnetic field, production of torque types of motors equivalent circuits, Circle diagram, torque slip characteristics, starting and maximum torque, speed control, principle of single phase induction motors, Applications.

IX. SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES:
Generation  of  emf  in  3  phase  AC  Generator,  Armature  reaction,  regulation  by Synchronous  inpedance  and  Ampere  turn  methods,  parallel  operation,    transient  and  sub-transiat reactances, theory of salient pole machines. Synchronous  Motor:  Torque  production,  performance characteristics,  methods  of  starting, V-Curves, synchronous condenser. Special Machines:  Stepper motor, Methods of operation, Amplidyne and metadyne-applications.

X. ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION:
General layout – Types of power stations, economics of different types, base load and peak load stations, load factor and its effects, pumped storage schemes.

XI. POWER TRANSMISSION:
Calculation of line parameters, concepts of short, medium and long transmission lines, ABCD  parameters,  insulators,  Corona,  P.U.  quantities,  fault  calculations,  symmetrical components load flow analysis using Gauss Seidal, New-ton Raphson, methods, economic operation, stability, steady state and transient stability, equal area criterion,  ALFC  and AVR control for real time operation of interconnected systems. 

XII. POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION:
Principles  of  arc  quenching,  circuit  breaker  classification,  Recovery  and  restriking voltages,  relaying  principles  over  current,  directional  over  current  relays-generator  and transformer  protection  using  differential  relays-line  protection  using  distance  relays  Surgeo phenomena in transmission lines – Travelling wave theory,  protection against surges.

XIII. UTILISATION:
Industrial Drives –  Motors for various drives – Braking methods – Speed control of motors – Economics of rail traction – Mechanics of train movement – Estimation of power and energy requirements – Illumination – Laws Factory lighting – Street lighting – Induction and dielectric heating.








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