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His work and conduct during training period have been very good.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mr.Vishal Bolia and Dr. Sachin Goel for their
encouragement & valuable contributions to the project throughout its various phases.
I express my sincere thanks to Mr.Ankit Arora, Ms.Sonia Badhan , Mr.Gulab for their
full support, constant cooperation & continuous guidance throughout training period.
Being a part of C&S Electric has enabled me to get an overall picture of the switchgear
and components. The study of electrical components has been a very interesting learning
experience and has nourished my interest in nanotechnology.
Ishan Paul
th
B.tech (4 year) EEE
Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology
PREFACE
With the ongoing revolution in electronics and communication where innovations are
taking place at the blink of eye, it is impossible to keep pace with the emerging trends.
Excellence is an attitude that the whole of the human race is born with. It is the
environment that makes sure that whether the result of this attitude is visible or
otherwise. A well planned, properly executed and evaluated industrial training helps a lot
in collating a professional attitude. It provides a linkage between a student and industry to
develop an awareness of industrial approach to problem solving, based on a broad
understanding of process and mode of operation of organization.
During this period, the student gets the real experience for working in the industry
environment. Most of the theoretical knowledge that has been gained during the course of
their studies is put to test here. Apart from this the student gets an opportunity to learn the
latest technology, which immensely helps in them in building their career.
I had the opportunity to have a real experience on many ventures, which increased my
sphere of knowledge to great extent. I got a chance to learn many new technologies and
also interfaced too many instruments. And all this credit goes to organization C&S
Electric Limited.
INTRODUCTION
The business operations of C&S Electric are divided in the following 3 strategic
business units (SBUs)
C&S employs over 3000 people including 400 engineers, and has 16 state-of-the
art manufacturing plants. It has 22 sales office across India and its products are
exported to 73 countries. C&S Electric also has several joint venture companies
and a 100% owned subsidiary.
HISTORY
Our CMD, Mr. R N Khanna after graduating from IIT Kharagpur, gets his first taste of
the switchgear business as a Design Engineer in a leading German company.
1998 Second Generation join the business. Big thrust on exports. Entry into Lighting and
- 200 Wiring Accessories. Establishment of EOU and SEZ facilities. Acknowledged as
7 India’s #1 Busbar Company. Growth of almost 40% for three years in a row 2005 to
2008. JV with Himoinsa of Spain to manufacture Diesel Generating Sets.
2008 Enters Medium Voltage business through a JV with Efacec of Portugal. Raises
private equity from GE Commercial Finance with intention to grow even more
aggressively through organic and inorganic means. Merges three main companies
into a single entity – C&S Electric Ltd.
Our Vision
• C&S shall be the most trusted, respected and preferred brand, for electrical and
electronic equipment that finds application in power generation, distribution,
control and final consumption.
• In its major businesses C&S shall not only command a domestic market share
ranging from 12% to 50% or more, but be known widely as the company “closest
to its customers”
• C&S products shall be used to manage power in India’s biggest industries, in its
highest buildings, in its most critical infrastructure and in millions of its homes.
• The C&S name shall be recognized widely as a benchmark, and shall serve as a
role model and an inspiration to other Indian engineering products companies.
• C&S shall be cited as a company that played an important role in making “Made
in India” a label that is trusted and respected the world over.
Our Mission
VALUES
STRETCH FOR YOUR CUSTOMER
• Fully understand and fulfill needs of internal and external customers
•Remember and teach that small things lead to perfection, but perfection is not a
small thing
WORK HARD, SMART & SWIFT
• Nurture a culture of tenacity, perseverance and sheer hard work Be innovative
• Opportunities to innovate are everywhere, everyday. Grab them
• Take responsibility for your own agenda and priorities
•Take some risks. If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough
SUCCEED AS A TEAM AND AS AN INDIVIDUAL
• Strike a balance between people and task orientation
• Success comes more from exploiting strengths than from overcoming weaknesses
MARKETS SERVED
Industry
• Power • Petrochemical • Metals
• Villas
SWITCHGEAR AND PROTECTION
The term switchgear, used in association with the electric power system, or grid, refers
to the combination of electrical disconnects, fuses and/or circuit breakers used to isolate
electrical equipment. Switchgear is used both to de-energize equipment to allow work to
be done and to clear faults downstream. This type of equipment is important because it is
directly linked to the reliability of the electricity supply.
The very earliest central power stations used simple open knife switches, mounted on
insulating panels of marble or asbestos. Power levels and voltages rapidly escalated,
making open manually-operated switches too dangerous to use for anything other than
isolation of a de-energized circuit. Oil-filled equipment allowed arc energy to be
contained and safely controlled. By the early 20th century, a switchgear line-up would be
a metal-enclosed structure with electrically-operated switching elements, using oil circuit
breakers. Today, oil-filled equipment has largely been replaced by air-blast, vacuum,
or SF6 equipment, allowing large currents and power levels to be safely controlled by
automatic equipment incorporating digital controls, protection, metering and
communications.
High voltage switchgear was invented at the end of the 19th century for
operating motors and others electric machines. The technology has been improved over
time and can be used with voltages up to 1,100 kV.
TYPES
A piece of switchgear may be a simple open air isolator switch or it may be insulated by
some other substance. An effective although more costly form of switchgear is gas
insulated switchgear (GIS), where the conductors and contacts are insulated by
pressurized sulfur hexafluoride gas (SF6). Other common types are oil [or vacuum]
insulated switchgear.
The combination of equipment within the switchgear enclosure allows them to interrupt
fault currents of many hundreds or thousands of amps. A circuit breaker (within a
switchgear enclosure) is the primary component that interrupts fault currents. The
quenching of the arc when the ciruit breaker pulls apart the contacts open (disconnects
the circuit) requires careful design. Circuit breakers fall into these four types:
Oil circuit breakers rely upon vaporization of some of the oil to blast a jet of oil
through the arc.
Gas (SF6) circuit breakers sometimes stretch the arc using a magnetic field, and
then rely upon the dielectric strength of the SF6 to quench the stretched arc.
Vacuum circuit breakers have minimal arcing (as there is nothing to ionize other
than the contact material), so the arc quenches when it is stretched a very small
amount (<2–3 mm). Vacuum circuit breakers are frequently used in modern medium-
voltage switchgear to 35,000 volts.
Air circuit breakers may use compressed air (puff) to blow out the arc, or
alternatively, the contacts are rapidly swung into a small sealed chamber, the escaping
of the displaced air thus blowing out the arc.
Circuit breakers are usually able to terminate all current flow very quickly: typically
between 30 ms and 150 ms depending upon the age and construction of the device.
By voltage class:
By insulating medium:
Air
Gas (SF6 or mixtures)
Oil
Vacuum
By construction type:
By interrupting device:
Fuses
Air Blast Circuit Breaker
Minimum Oil Circuit Breaker
Oil Circuit Breaker
Vacuum Circuit Breaker
Gas (SF6) Circuit breaker
By operating method:
Manually-operated
Motor-operated
Solenoid/stored energy operated
By type of current:
Alternating current
Direct current
By application:
Transmission system
Distribution
By purpose
A single line-up may incorporate several different types of devices, for example, air-
insulated bus, vacuum circuit breakers, and manually-operated switches may all exist in
the same row of cubicles.
The Noida Unit of C&S Electric manufactures LOW VOLTAGE Switchgear Panels.The
range is approximately upto 1000A,These Panels Employ certain components which are
responsible for the detection and successful recovery of the normal operation.The
Following Components are Used :
COMPONENTS
Distribution Boards :
Single Phase Neutral Horizontal Distribution Board
Single & Double Door - 4, 8, 12 & 16 ways
Three Phase Neutral Horizontal Distribution Board
Single & Double Door - 4, 6, 8, 12 & 16 ways with 8
way as the incomer
PANEL MANUFACTURING
The Panels Used for the switchgear is also manufactured at the LV Panel units at the
Powder Coating Plant located in the C&S NOIDA UNIT..
The following process are taken in order to obtain a clean,nuetral and powder coated
panel:
The Panels required for the switchboard needs to be clean and properly painted so
that no voltage leakage is observed,although they are properly grounded.The Panels
are dipped in various solvents which ensure that the panels coming at the output are
free from rust,Grease,and any other unwanted chemical substance.
5 MINS
2. RINSE NORMAL ROOM TEMP
WATER(PH-7)
After the action of various chemicals on the panels,these are fed to a roster which runs at
100 C.The basic function of the roaster is to remove or evaporate any left out
chemical/water..
PAINT:
The panels are then fed to a enclosed room in which automatic spray paint machine
paints the panels in the respected colours needed.The paint time,quality,speed of the
conveyor belt etc are controlled by an official seated in the powder coating plant.
The machines are capable of changing the amount of powder coat to be painted on the
panels.therefore the paint as required by the contractor is painted on to the panels.
ROASTING:
The panels are finally fed to a roaster which dries the paint and makes it firm.the
temperature of the roaster is higher than the previous roaster ie its above 100 C.
The entire process is automatic,where the panels and other metals to be painted are hung
upon a conveyor belt which passes 1st through the roaster which evaporates any left out
chemical by the previous process.
After that the panels are fed to the paint room,where they are painted by the machines
which are automatic.Any further portions left out by the machine can be filled by the
workers also.
Finally the roaster ,roasts the paint and makes it firm on the panels.
FEATURES:
Booth-8 sqm/min.
Conveyor speed-2.5M/min
No of Panels-1200 sqM/shift.
Variable speed of the conveyor with auto lubrication
Press chamber with 1200 m/hr.
Warner Autopaint Guns with touch screen
Air emission conforming to EU-EN norms.
CONCLUSION
The role of switchgear is:
Electrical protection
Safe isolation from live parts
Local or remote switching
Electrical protection at low voltage is (apart from fuses) normally incorporated in circuit-
breakers, in the form of thermal-magnetic devices and/or residual-current-operated
tripping devices (less-commonly, residual voltage- operated devices - acceptable to, but
not recommended by IEC).
Switchgear control
Switchgear-control functions allow system operating personnel to modify a loaded system at any moment,
according to requirements,
and include:
Marking (of the circuits being controlled) must be clear and unambiguous.
In order to provide the maximum flexibility and continuity of operation, particularly
where the switching device also constitutes the protection (e.g. a circuit-breaker or
switch-fuse) it is preferable to include a switch at each level of distribution, i.e. on each
outgoing way of all distribution and subdistribution boards.
The manœuvre may be:
These switches operate instantaneously (i.e. with no deliberate delay), and those that
provide protection are invariably omni-polar(1).
The main circuit-breaker for the entire installation, as well as any circuit-breakers used
for change-over (from one source to another) must be omni-polar units.
Emergency switching - emergency stop
An emergency switching is intended to de-energize a live circuit which is, or could
become, dangerous (electric shock or fire).
An emergency stop is intended to halt a movement which has become dangerous.
In the two cases:
It should be noted that in certain cases, an emergency system of braking, may require that
the auxiliary supply to the braking-system circuits be maintained until final stoppage of
the machinery.
Switching-off for mechanical maintenance work
This operation assures the stopping of a machine and its impossibility to be inadvertently
restarted while mechanical maintenance work is being carried out on the driven
machinery. The shutdown is generally carried out at the functional switching device, with
the use of a suitable safety lock and warning notice at the switch mechanism.
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. http://www.electrical-installation.org/
2. WIKIPEDIA.ORG
Bachelor of Technology
in
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
of
Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Submitted to:
H.O.D.,
Electrical Department
MSIT.
By
ISHAN PAUL
0591504907