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PROGRESS REPORT: TIFAC-CORE (since April- 2008)

1. Two faculty members namely Sh. Amit Kaul and Sh. Himesh Handa attended a seminar on FaFinding and Life Assessment of Power Transformer organized by Central Board of Irrigation aPower at New Delhi during 25-26 April 2008.

2. The 5th RMC meeting held on 24-25 Aug. 2008.

3. Sh. Sushil Kumar has been recruited as a visiting faculty in the TIFAC-CORE, EED, NIT Hamirpur tenure of one year w.e.f. September 04, 2008. Later his designation was changed to TIFAC-CORFellow.

4. A refresher course on Transformer Engineering & Practices for the students of Govt. PolytechCollege Hamirpur was organized during 26-28 Sept 08.

5. The following technical staff have been recruited in the TIFAC-CORE, EED, NIT Hamirpur on contrbasis for one year in the month of Oct 2008

(i) Sh. Anil Kumar, Superintendent Technical.

(ii) Sh. Parminder Kumar, Technical Grade-I.

6. The following members participated in a training course on Condition Monitoring and LAssessment of Power Transformer organized by ERDA (Elect. Research and DevelopmAssociation) at Vadodra, Gujarat during 17-18 Nov 2008.

(i) Sh. Sushil Kumar, TIFAC-CORE Fellow.

(ii) Sh. Ajay Kumar, Technician.

7. A five days training programme was attended by Dr. R.N. Sharma, Co-ordinator, TIFAC-CORE for benefit of TIFAC-CORE, conducted by Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) Hyderabad (Aduring 17-21 Nov, 2008.

8. Sh. Parminder Kumar and Sh. Anil Kumar attended a seminar on Karl Fischer Titrator organizedMetrohm Ltd. at Chandigarh held in Nov. 2008.

9. Sh. Sushil Kumar TIFAC-CORE fellow, NIT Hamirpur participated in one day technical seminar Transformer Diagnostics Testing and Circuit Breaker Analysis at The Hans, New Delhi on 15 J2009.

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10.The supply order of following equipments placed in Jan, 2009.

1. Automatic Transformer Winding Ohmmeter

2. Insulation Analyzer

3. 500MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope

4. High Performance Liquid Chromatograph

5. Karl Fischer Coulumetric Titrator

6. FTIR-Spectrometer

7. Interfacial Tension Measuring System

8. Combined TGA, DTA.DSC.

9. UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

11.A refresher course onTransformer Engineering and Practices was organized for the studentsGovt. Polytechnic College Hamirpur, during 6-8 Feb 2009.

12. The DGA equipment calibrated on dated 11 Feb 2009 at their respective service center Delhi. AADTR-2K calibrated by technical staff at laboratory of TIFAC-CORE NIT Hamirpur.

13.One attendant has been appointed on contract basis in Feb, 2009.

14. Dr. Madan Gopal Sharma, AEE, office of Director (Design), Hamirpur delivered an expert lecture

Modern Trends in Power Transformer Design Requirement on 27th Feb 2009.

15.The faculty and staff members of TIFACCORE participate in the three days (4-6 March 2009) routmaintenance of power transformer with M&T Bilaspur at Anu and Mattansidh Substation, HamirpThey also performed the SFRA test on a few transformers at these two sites.

16.The 6th RMC meeting held on 13 Mar 09. Action on the minutes has been initiated.

17.A workshop on Power Transformers Design and Monitoring has been organized by TIFAC-CONIT Hamirpur during 14-15 Mar 09.

18.The following faculty/staff (TIFAC-CORE) attended the workshop onPower Transformer Design aMonitoring at NIT Hamirpur during 14-15 Mar 2009

(i) Sh. Sushil Kumar, TIFAC-CORE Fellow

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(ii) Sh. Anil Kumar, Supdt. Technical

(iii) Sh. Parminder Kumar, Tech-I

(iv) Sh. Ajay Kumar, Tech-II

19.A National Conference onTechnological Advances in Computing and Technology (TACT09) hbeen organized during 16-17 Mar 2009 at NIT Hamirpur.

20. One limb of a 33/22 kV HV/LV transformer of HE make, 1MVA purchased from M&T HPSSundernagar on the cost of its scrap value only. It has been brought to NIT Hamirpur on 16 April 2009

21.Membership of CIGRE INDIA has been renewed for the year 2009.

22. The equipment Digital Storage Oscilloscope Model DL 9040 has been received and the compaexpert demonstrated it to the TIFAC-CORE staff & faculty on 22 Apr 2009.

23.Following papers have been published in the National/International journal on behalf of TIFAC-CORNIT Hamirpur:

(i) R. Naresh, V. Sharma and Manisha V.An Integrated Neural-Fuzzy Approach for Fault Diagnoof Transformer IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. Vol. 23, No.4, Oct 08 pp 2017-2024.

(ii) Singh J., Sood Y. R., Jarial R. K. and Verma Piush Condition Monitoring of Power TransformBibliography Survey IEEE Insulation Magazine Vol. 24, No.03, May/June 2008, pp 11-25.

(iii) Paper published in National Conference Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering RAEEby Jashan Deep Singh, Y. R. Sood, R. K. Jaryal, and Piyush Verma. Paper titled DiagnosTechniques for Condition Monitoring of power transformer.

(iv) Paper published in National Conference in Recent Trends and Advancement in Computing(RTAC-09), By Jashan Deep Singh, Y. R. Sood, R. K. Jaryal, and Piyush Verma. Paper TitIndian and American Standards of Power Transformer.

24.Following books have been received in TIFAC-CORE:

S.N. Title Authors Qty.

1. Design of Transformer Indrajit Dasgupta 1

2. Electric Power Transformer Eng. 2nd Edition James H Harlow 2

3. Electrical Equipment Hand Book McGraw-Hill 1

4.Handbook of transformer Design & Practices

2nd EditionWilliam M Flanagan 2

5. High Voltage Test Techniques 2nd Edition Dieter Kind Kurt Feser 1

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6. History of Transformer Frienrich Uppenbirn 1

7.Industrial Power Eng. & Applications HandBook (Newnes)

KC Agrawal 1

8. Industrial Power transformer Distribution andIlluminating System Kao Chen 1

9. J & P Transformer Martin J Heathcote 1

10. Power System Relaying III EditionStanely H Horowitz &

Arun G Phake1

11. Power Transformer Engineering Principle &Applications

John J Winders, Jr 1

12.Practical Troubleshooting of Electricalequipment and control circuits

Mark Brown, JawaharRawtani, Dinesh Patil

1

13.The Alternate Current Transformer, In TheoryAnd Practices VI; The Induction Of Electriccurrents 1894

J.A. Fleming 1

14.Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook

3rd Edition Revised and ExpandedColonel W.M.T. Mclyman 1

15.Transformer design Principles withapplication to Core Form Power Transformer

Robert M Del Vecchio,Bertrand Poulin, Pierre T.Feghali, Dilip Kumar, M.Shah and Rajendra Ahuja

2

16. Transformer Engineering (Design& Practices)SV Kulkarni & SAKhaparde

1

17. Transformer 2nd EditionBharat Heavy ElectricalsLimited

1

18.Transformer: Their Theory, Construction andamplification Simplified

Caryl D. Haskins 1

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25. The number of students UG/PG trained in DGA, SFRA, BDV, ADTR-2k, Domino during sessionApril 08-April 09:

DGA SFRA BDV ADTR-2K Domino

PG students 9 14 8 4 8

Govt. Polytechnic Students 44 44 44 44 44

HPSEB and other Engineers 35 35 35 35 35

26.The process to procure new equipments for the following purpose has been started:

1. Flash Point Determination

2. Pour Point Determination

3. Viscosity at low temp.

4. Viscosity at high temp.

5. TAN/TBN Measurement

6. PD Detection

7. PD Detection using Acoustic Emission

8. Moisture Content and oil conductivity by Frequency Domain

9. Thermographs of Transformer

10. Vibration Analyzer

11. Fluorescent UV Sulfur Analyzer

12. Ultrasonic Fault detector

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(Dr. R. N. Sharma)HOD & Co-ordinator, TIFAC-COREElectrical Engineering DepartmentNIT, Hamirpur (HP)