Syllabus for EEE branch/AE for ap genco-APGENCO

Syllabus

(for Electrical Branch/AE)

1. Electrical Circuits and Networks:

Kirchoff's laws, mesh and node analysis, network theorems, sinusoidal steady state

analysis of single phase and three phase circuits, resonance, transient response of RL,

RC,RLC circuits for different inputs, to-port networks, Two element network synthesis.

2. Control Systems:

Modeling of physical systems, Block diagrams and signal flow graphs, Time and

frequency domain analysis, Steady state errors, Routh's criterion, Nyquist and Bode plots,

compensation, root loci, elementary ideas of state variable analysis, control systems

components.

3. Measurements and Instrumentation:

SI units, measurement of current, voltage, power, power-factor and energy.

Measurement of resistance, inductance capacitance and frequency-bridge methods,

transducers and their applications to the measurement of non-electrical quantities like

temperature, pressure, strain, displacement etc., cathode ray oscilloscope.

4. Analog and Digital Electronics:

Characteristics of diodes, BJT, FET,SCR, Amplifier biasing, equivalent circuits,

frequency response, feedback amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators, operational

amplifiers and applications, wave shaping circuits, multi-vibrators, flip-flops, universal gate

combinational circuits, A/D and D/A converters.

5. Electrical Machines and power Electronic Drives:

Single phase transformer, equivalent circuit, tests, regulation and efficiency, three

phase transformer connections parallel operation, auto transformer, principle of energy

conversion, winding of rotating machines, DC generators and motors, characteristics,

starting and speed control, three phase induction motors performance characteristics,

starting and speed control, single phase induction motors, synchronous generators,

performance, regulation, parallel operation, synchronous motors, starting characteristics

and applications, synchronous condensers, fractional horse power motors, permanent

magnet and stepper motors, Characteristics of Power Electronic devices, phase control,

bridge converters, choppers and inverters, basic concepts of adjustable speed drives.

6. Power Systems:

Electrical power generation thermal, hydro, nuclear : transmission line parameters;

steady state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables, surge propagation,

distribution systems, insulators, bundle conductors, corona, and radio interference effects;

per-unit quantities: bus admittance and impedance matrices: load flow: voltage control and

power factor correction; economic operation, symmetrical components, analysis of

symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults; principles of over current, differential and distance

protections,