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    A Training Report

    For Partial Fulfillment B.E Electrical Engineering from

    MSIT, Janakpuri

    ONNational Fertilizers limited,Panipat Unit

    Presented By - Underguidance of:-

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    Harshal Kumar Mr.Johnson OramB.Tech (EEE)00315004911

    Acknowledgement

    It is a matter of great pleasure for me

    acknowledging me with profound sense of

    gratitude, the invaluable help & worth

    guidance rendered by my project guide Mr.

    Johnson Oram .Their innumerable suggestions

    which served as the material source & the

    motivational force for the successfulcompletion of the training.

    At last, I am thankful to all those who helped

    me in any way, in achieving my goal of

    successful completion of the training.

    It is my pleasure to thank my fatherMr.R.K.Sonkar for his constant

    encouragement and valuable advice during

    the whole training period.

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    Harshal Kumar

    COMPANY PROFILE

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    National Fertilizers Limited was established in August, 1974 to set

    up two fuel oil based plants at Bathinda (Punjab) and Panipat

    (Haryana). Both of them were commissioned in 1979. The Nangal

    Fertilizer plant of Fertilizer Corporation of India (F.C.I) has been

    merged with National Fertilizer Limited (NFL) in 1978 on thereorganization of FCI and NFL group of companies. Later, NFL

    executed its gas based plant at Vijaypur (Madhya Pradesh) on HBJ

    gas pipe line. Vijaypur plant had gone in commercial production

    in July, 1988.

    The National Fertilizers Limited is now operating three fuel based

    plants located at Nangal, Bathinda and Panipat and a gas based

    plant at Vijaypur. The of three fuel based plants is 900 TPD of

    ammonia, 1000 TPD of urea at Nangal and 1550 TPD of urea at

    Bathinda and Panipat. The capacity of gas based plant at Vijaypur

    is 700 TPD of Ammonia and 400 TPD of Urea with the addition of

    the gas based plant in the family of National Fertilizers Limited,

    the Company now occupies the position of largest producer of

    nitrogenous fertilizers in the country.

    PLANTS AND CAPACITIES

    CAPTIVE POWER PLANT 2X15MWH

    AMMONIA PLANT 900MT/DAY

    UREA PLANT 1550MT/DAY

    SULPHUR RECOVERY PLANT 26.5MT/DAY

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    STEAM GENERATION PLANT 3X150MT/DAY

    COAL HANDLING PLANT 150&250MT/HR

    DM WATER PLANT 400MT/HR

    RAW WATER PLANT 2400M

    Training Report

    CAPTIVE POWER PLANT

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    Captivepower plant has been installed to meet the total

    power requirement of the plant. The turbo generators of

    15MW each generate power at 11KV. Power plant can be

    run in parallel and in isolation with the grid. Boiler of

    210T/hr has been provided to supply stream to turbo

    generators. Boiler is designed to operate on coal with

    support of oil and or fully on fuel oil.

    It was commissioned in 1988 with the basic purpose of

    serving Panipat unit independent from HSEB grid so that

    performance does not have any adverse effect.

    Three main actions of plant are:-

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    Steam generation plant

    Turbo generator set

    Transformer

    STEAM GENERATION PLANT

    Coal from material handling plant is taken to six bunkers

    through conveyer belts. Coal from six bunkers are fed to

    3 ball mills through six coal feeder for controlling the flow

    of controlling the flow of coal according to the boiler

    demand. Each ball mill is connected to two coal feeders

    through six coal crusher.

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    Major sections of SGP are:- Boiler

    Super heater

    Economiser

    Air preheater

    Electrostatic precipitator Forced shaft fans &induced shaft fans

    BOILER:

    Boiler in the CPP is multi relay RX type from fixed boiler.

    Normal capacity of boiler is 210T/hr. Boiler is designed torun on pulverized coal supported by oil. Plant can take

    full load on any type of fuel.

    SUPER HEATER:

    Basic function of super heater is to raise the temperature of steam above

    the boiling point of water which increases the overall efficiency of the

    plant. It consists of groups made up of several alloy steels such aschromium molybdenum. There are three types of super heaters namely:

    radiant, convection, and separately fired. Super heaters increase the

    efficiency of the steam engine, and were widely adopted. Steam which

    has been superheated is logically known as superheated steam; non-

    superheated steam is called saturated steam or wet steam. Super heaters

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    were applied to steam locomotives in quantity from the early 20th

    century, to most steam vehicles, and to stationary steam engines. This

    equipment is still an integral part of power generating stations

    throughout the world.

    ECONOMISER:

    It heats the feed water on its way to boiler. It consists of

    large number of closely spaced large parallel tubes

    connected by the header of the drum. Economizers are

    commonly used as part of a heat recovery steam

    generator in a combined cycle power plant. A common

    application of economizers in steam power plants is to

    capture the waste heat from boiler stack gases (flue gas)

    and transfer it to the boiler feed water. This raises the

    temperature of the boiler feed water thus lowering the

    needed energy input, in turn reducing the firing rates to

    accomplish the rated boiler output.

    AIR PREHEATER:Heat absorbed from flue gas is transferred to incoming

    cold air by means of continuously rotating heat transfer

    elements of specially formed metal plates. An air

    preheater or air heater is a general term to describe

    any device designed to heat air before another process

    (for example, combustion in a boiler) with the primary

    objective of increasing the thermal efficiency of the

    process. The purpose of the air preheater is to recover

    the heat from the boiler flue gas which increases the

    thermal efficiency of the boiler by reducing the useful

    heat lost in the flue gas.

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    ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR:

    Its basic function is to free the gas from ash and

    minimize the pollution. Each ESP has 10 electrodes and

    18 plates. 60 KV (DC) is fed by the help of transformer

    and rectifier assembly. Following is the process taking

    place in the electrostatic precipitator:-

    Dust laden flue gases from the boiler passes

    between rows of two electrodes.

    Neutral gas molecules get ionized due to theprocess of electronic field.

    Positively charged ions travel towards emitting

    electrodes and negatively charged ions getattached to dust particles.

    Dust particles get electrically charged anddeposited on collecting electrodes.

    TURBO GENERATOR SET

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    Fig. Turbo generator

    SPECIFICATION:

    NUMBER 2

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    OUTPUT 18750KVA,

    15MW

    RATED POWER FACTOR 0.8

    RATED VOLTAGE 11000V

    RATED FREQUENCY 50Hz

    SPEED 3000RPM

    DEGREE OF PROTECTION IP-54

    INSULATION CLASS STATOR-F

    ROTOR-F

    TEMPRATURE STATOR-B

    ROTOR-B

    EXCITATION CHARACTERISTICS:

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    AT NO LOAD I=276A,

    V=55V

    AT MAXIMUM RATED CURRENT I=580A,

    V=163V

    AT 125% MAX RATED CURRENT I=672A,

    V=189V

    EFFICIENCY AT POWER FACTOR 0.8:

    100% LOAD 97.53%

    75% LOAD 97.25%

    50% LOAD 96.49%

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    DESCRIPTION

    GENERAL:

    Three phase alternator set has:-

    Totally enclosed self ventilated with two lateral air to

    water cooling.

    Horizontal shaft

    Two enshield sleeve bearing with forced lubrication.

    Six stator leads consisting of copper bars arranged

    vertically at the bottom frame.

    Rated output is given for continuous running at 50 Hz

    frequency, power factor 0.8, 36C inlet temperature

    of fresh cooling water and altitude above sea level

    exceeding 1000m.

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    STATOR CONSTRUCTION:

    FRAME: The frame has parallelepiped form. It is madeof welded steel and designed to ensure the best

    mechanical holding.

    CORE: The core is built of low losses electrical sheetlamination insulated in accordance with insulation

    process and can be clamped between two plates; thewhole is divided in to elementary stacks separated by

    steel insulation which form ventilation canal for cooling of

    coil.

    STATOR WINDING: Stator wedge consist of identical

    coils. The alternator is insulated in accordance with ourepoxy process which is an insulating system based on

    mica tape with paper or Dacron support and wrapped in

    multiple layer around the coil. After impregnation the

    complete stator is subjected to heat treatment that

    allows a compact homogeneous supervious insulated

    structure to be obtained.

    TERMINALS: The six main leads which consist ofcopper strip are arranged vertically at the bottom of

    frame.

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    SPACE HEATER: One space heater is located at thebase of stator to avoid humidity when the generator is

    running.

    ROTOR CONSTRUCTION:

    SHAFT: Shaft end and rotor bodies are integrally forgedof high mechanical quality steel that has undergone a no.

    of tests.

    ROTOR WINDING: Wedge is made of cold drawnrectangular of high conductivity. The turns are framed on

    mandrel and lead into the slots. The turns are stratified

    glass fiber insulation.

    RETAINING RING: These are fixed to the rotor body.In this way the shaft end are free to bend without

    touching the retaining ring. The rings have great number

    of radial holes which permits evacuation of the end

    turned air.

    VENTILATION: The ventilation system is designed toprovide maximum efficiency and prevents hot spots. The

    art is drawn at each end of the generator by the two

    helicoidally fans. After cooling the active parts of the

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    machine, the air is discharged at the periphery of the

    stator core and then in the coolers located on either side

    of the frame.

    COOLERS:The two air to water coolers are located ineither side of frame. They are formed by the nest of

    round cupronickel tubes on which aluminum cooling fins

    are fixed.

    EXCITERDESCRIPTION: Total enclosed cooled with cold airsupplied by the main generator inverted alternators with

    stationery field and rotating armature. It feeds the

    generator through a rectifier mounted on shaft

    connection between the rectifier bridge and main

    generator field are made by hole drilled in shaft.

    ROTATING ARMATURE: The lamination cut in onepiece insulated after puncturing. The slots are scrunch on

    the rim that has to be keyed on the shaft. The armature

    winding is installed in the open slots, secured in position

    and connected to the rotatingrectifier bridge.

    STATOR: The frame consist of laminated magnetic ringon which the main hole cores are bolted. The field coils

    are secured on the hole cores.

    RECTIFIER BRIDGE: The rectifier bridges aremounted in GRAETZ Bridge and are two types of cells.

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    Each arm of the bridge uses 3 cells in parallel and

    elementary rectifier bridge is protected by fuses. The size

    of cells and their charge to avoid all the possibility of

    overload or over voltage when the alternator is runningin following conditions:-

    Three phase fault at the generator terminals.

    Over voltage of the network.

    None synchronized running.

    GENERATOR EXCITATION:-

    In both automatic and manual operation with excitation

    by taping the generator must be started until a voltage of

    0.1Un is reached. The stator is cut off by a voltage

    threshold relay which they release the controller. In

    automatic operation the generator is excited so that

    rated voltage is reached immediately a variation of du

    being then possible by external control.

    OVERLOADING:-

    When load current increases, generator speeddecreases, now reading increases.

    Signal sent to control panel from where it is sent to

    governing valve that in turn governs the steam inflow of the turbine.

    Valve opens accordingly and steam in flowincreases.

    Collaterally, now reading goes to neutral.

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    DE-EXCITATION:

    Whether manual or following activation of a protectiondevice, de-excitation occurs after the coupling circuit

    breaker has opened following the rapid cut off of the

    excitation current, the transformer/thruster set will

    operate as inverter. On a de-excitation order, thruster

    clock pulses are locked in the minimum position (inverter

    mode) excitation contactor being then de-energized.

    GENERATOR PROTECTION:

    1. FREQUENCY RELAY

    Solid state frequency relay with high accuracy and

    stability are used:-

    (a) For splitting up a grid system openingtransmission lines to prevent complete systemcollapse.

    (b) For isolating small systems having their owngeneration from the main system.

    (c) For the protection of generators and auxiliarywhere frequency suppression can avoid damage toturbines and auxiliary drives.

    2. ACTIVE OR REACTIVE POWER RELAYS

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    The WTG 7100 relays have been developed in order to

    provide a static solution to the various problems of

    protection requiring real measure of active power (as

    well as energy flow direction supervision), a solutionoffering the following advantage:-

    Unbalanced power in case of 3-wire,3-phase

    networks, measured by two wattmeter method.

    Great directional stability.

    Active power relay is totally unaffected by current

    and voltage harmonics.

    Operating threshold continuously adjustable.

    Low burden on current and voltage transformer.

    3. OVER CURRENT PROTECTION RELAY

    The ITG relay of the 7200, 7300, 7400 series provides a

    complete range of phase or earth fault protection relays

    inverse time extremely inverse time type with or without

    instantaneous high set units. The ITG relay of the 7200,

    7300, 7400 series have specifically designed or the

    protection of the networks and substations against faultbetween phases or from phase to earth.

    4. ALTERNATOR LOSS OF FIELD PROTECTION

    RELAY

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    The YTM 7111 is an admittance relay, specifically

    designed for the detection by using the electrical

    quantities available in its stator circuit of the loss of field

    of an alternator connected to a network. To perform thisdetection, the relay is supplied from two phase circuit

    and corresponding phase to phase voltage.

    If the field current of alternator is interrupted either

    by a short circuit or by accidental opening of the rotor

    circuit, after a short period the machine will loose

    synchronism. The rotor will accelerate slighter and the

    alternator will operate as asynchronous generatorcontinuing to supply active power required for its

    magnetization from the network to which it is connected.

    The rotor motor may go above nominal due to

    reactive power absorbed and low frequency currents are

    induced in the damper winding and on rotor surface

    causing abnormal heating of the later if asynchronous

    operation continuous for too long period.

    5. ROTOR EARTH FAULT RELAY

    The first fault should however be first eliminated without

    delay, because it allowed to remain a second fault of the

    same type that would immediately put the machine out

    of service and could cause very serious damage to rotor.

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    The object of TTE 7015 and TTE 7017 is to detect

    immediately any fault on the rotor winding of a

    synchronous machine in order to give an alarm and if

    required to separate the machine from network.

    TRANSFORMER

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    RATING

    MVA 31.25/24

    FREQUENCY 50 Hz

    TYPE OF COOLING ONAF/ONAN

    VOLTAGE AT NO LOAD

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    H.V. 132KV

    (STAR)

    L.V. 11KV

    (STAR)

    T.V. 6.6KV

    (DELTA)

    NORMAL AMPERES AT 31.5 MVA BASE

    H.V. 137.8

    A

    L.V. 1653.3

    A

    INSULATION LEVEL

    H.V.

    650KVP

    L.V.

    75KVP

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    H.V.NEUTRAL

    95KVP

    DESCRIPTION OF TRANSFORMER

    GENERAL:

    The transformer is oil immersed with double rating of

    31.5 MVA and 24 MVA under oil natural air forced and oil

    natural air natural type of cooling respectively. The

    transformer is the most convenient and economical

    device for transfer of power from one voltage to another

    voltage(low or high) at the same frequency. It works on

    the principle of electromagnetic induction. There is

    hardly any installation without a transformer. Due to thisequipment, it has been possible to transmit bulk power to

    load centers from far off power houses and to various

    machineries and switchgears of the power plant.

    Transformers are of two types:-

    STEP-UP TRANSFORMER: The transformer which

    steps up the voltage at the secondary side is calledstep-up transformer.

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    STEP-DOWN TRANSFORMER: The transformerwhich step down the voltage at secondary side arecalled step-down transformer.

    MAIN PARTS OF POWER TRANSFORMER:

    Primary winding

    Secondary winding

    Oil tank

    Conservator

    Breather

    Explosion vent

    Temperature gauge

    Tap changer

    Tubes for cooling

    Transformer oil

    Earth point

    Primary terminals

    Secondary terminals

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    ACCESSORIES OF TRANSFORMER

    1.OIL CONSERVATOR:

    Oil conservator is a short of drum mounted on the top of

    transformer. A level indicator is fixed to it, which gives

    alarm at low level. Conservator is connected through a

    pipe to the transformer tank containing oil. This oil

    expands or contracts depending upon the heat produced

    and so the oil level in conservator is left open to theatmosphere through the breather so that the extra air

    may go out or come in.

    2. BREATHER:

    The breather is a box containing calcium chloride or

    silica gel to absorb moisture that entering theconservator. Silica gel is having a property absorbing the

    moisture or humidity, so it is used as breather. It is well

    known fact that the insulating property of the

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    transformers oil is lost if a small amount of moisture

    enter in it, so dry air is passed through the breather.

    3. EXPLOSION VENT:

    It is also a safety device of the transformer which

    protects the transformer tank from gases induced by and

    any type of short circuit in the transformer. This consists

    of a vertical pipe closed by diaphragm made of thin

    Bakelite sheet. This diaphragm bursts or slides out in

    case of abnormal pressure inside the tank.

    4. TEMPRATURE INDICATOR:

    It is also a protective device fitted to the transformer to

    indicate temperature of transformer oil. For measuring

    temperature of the oil, bulb of the vapour pressure type

    thermometer is placed in the hot oil and dial of the

    thermometer is mounted outside the tank. Two indicating

    pointers black and red are provided. Alarm contacts are

    also provided which come into action when

    predetermined permissible higher temperature is

    reached under abnormal operating conditions.

    Temperature indicator indicates the temperature of both

    i.e. the winding temperature as well as of oil

    temperature.

    5. BUSHINGS:

    The bushing serves as supports and insulation of the bus

    bars and transformer terminal. The bushing consist of

    porcelain shell body, upper and lower locating washer

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    used for fixing the position of bush bar and mounting

    flange with the hole drilled for fixing bolt and it is

    supplied with an earthing bolt.

    Fig. Bushing

    7. MAGNETIC OIL GAUGE:

    The magnetic oil gauge supervises the level of oil in the

    conservator tank. The oil level gauge is provided on the

    transformer are of dial type with minimum and maximum

    level marking and pointer which indicate the level of oilin the conservator. Sometimes the scale is also

    graduated for oil temperature on the basis of its level

    8. TAP CHANGER:

    The voltage control of transmission and distributionsystem is obtained by tap changer. Tap changer are

    either on load or off load tap changer. Tap changer is

    fitted with transformer for adjusting secondary voltage.

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    The voltage control of the range of 16% can be

    achieved by tap changing transformers.

    MAIN RECEIVING SUBSTATION

    Total factory load is around 23.5 MW, 2 lines from HSEB

    (Haryana State Electricity Board) and 2 lines from CPP

    are taken to receiving towers with the help of insulator

    arrangement. For the protection of switchyard, shielding

    wires are also provided on receiving towers. 3

    transformers step down 132KV to 11KV.

    Normally 3 kinds of supply are available:

    NORMAL SUPPLY :

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    It is given by generator and grid. Supply levels of

    132KV, 11KV, 3.3KV and 415V are available.

    EMERGANCY SUPPLY :

    It gets operated when there is failure of normal supply.

    It is given from DG set. Generally it comes in act after

    2 minutes of failure of normal supply.

    CRITICAL SUPPLY :

    It gives to those motor operated valves, whose non

    functioning could result in blockage of pipelinescarrying poisonous gases which could lead to serious

    accidents.

    The protective equipments present in 132KV

    switchyard are:-

    LIGHTNING ARRESTOR:

    They are used to protect the electrical system againstdirect lightning strokes. It conducts the high voltagesurges on the power system to the ground. Eachlightning arrestor is connected in parallel to one phasewire.

    ISOLATOR:

    Isolator opens a circuit under no load. The main purposeof an isolator is to isolate one portion of circuit from otherand is not intended to open while current is flowing in the

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    line. They are used in both sides of the circuit breaker inorder that repair work can be performed on circuitbreaker without any damage.

    CIRCUIT BREAKER:It can open a circuit under any condition i.e. under loadas well as no load conditions. It is so designed that it canbe operated manually under normal condition andautomatically under faulty condition with the help of therelay circuit. They are used to open circuit or break thecircuit. Minimum Oil Circuit Breaker (MOCB) are used inthe switchyard.

    CURRENT TRANSFORMER:

    They are used to measure the current flowing in thesystem. They are connected in series with each phasewire. In case of overcurrent they operate a relay which inturn disconnects all the links to faulty area.

    POTENTIAL TRANSFORMER:

    They are used to measure the voltage through thesystem. They are also connected in parallel to eachphase wire, in case of overvoltage they operate acorresponding relay which in turn send signal todisconnect link to the faulty area.

    RATING OF SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR AT

    CPP

    OUTPUT

    18750KVA

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    VOLTAGE

    11000V

    CURRENT 984A

    R.P.M. 3000

    P.F. 0.8

    EXCITATION VOLTAGE 163V

    EXCITATION CURRENT 580A

    RATING OF DIFFERENT THREE PHASE

    INDUCTION MOTORS INSTALLED AT CPP

    1. ASH HANDLING MOTOR

    VOLTAGE 3300V

    KW 180

    RPM 1486

    PF 0.82

    FREQUENCY 50 Hz

    INSULATION CLASS F

    2. ASH WATER PUMP-A

    VOLTAGE 3300V

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    KW 250

    RPM 1488

    FREQUNCY 50 HzP.F. 0.86

    IP 55

    HP 340

    INSULATION CLASS B

    3. ASH WATER PUMP

    VOLTAGE 3300V

    KW 200V

    RPM 1486

    CURRENT 45A

    HP 270

    INSULATION CLASS F

    Bibliography

    From Daily Dairy

    From engineeringfundamentals.com

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    From electric M\c by J.B Gupta.