CCR Operator

1. What is the position you have applied for, if we ask you to work as Plant Operator
shall you accept our offer?

2. How many people in your opinion should control the 2+1 CCPP from CCR?

3. How many operators work in your CCR?

4. Did you work on DCS system? How does this system work?

5. What are three major challenges for a CCR Operator?

6. What are the major problems in operating the plant at your existing employer’s
site?

7. Your experience is not relevant? How will you fill up the gaps? Why are you
looking for this transition?

8. What are the most critical parameters to watch when power plant is
running?

9. A Gas Turbine failed to fire during start up, what could be different reasons
that may cause this problem?

10. What is gas turbine cooling? What is the source of cooling air for different stages?

11. What is Peak Load, Base Load and Peak Reserve Load? What is spinning
reserve?

12. What are different protections of gas turbine?

13. What is compressor surge and what arrangements are there to avoid it?

14. What are the factors (Inside and Outside) that affect the GTG unit efficiency?

15. What is maintenance profile for gas turbine? What is CI, HGPI and MI?

16. How does unstable system parameters affect the synchronization of the units?

17. How the load on the unit increases with change of fuel? (Mechanical Energy and
Electrical Energy Relation)?

18. What is frequency droop? How does it affect the unit load with change in the
system frequency? (Up and Down)
19. What is reactive power, what are different options to control the reactive power?
Why we do not run the generator at high leading VARs?

20. What is generator capability curve? What are different limitations in loading of
generator?

21. What are different protections of generator? Which one is the most critical? (You
do not start the generator without clearance?)

22. Name the different sections of HRSG? What is their function? Is there steaming in
the HRSG Economizer? If yes what will happen?

23. What is three element control for boiler drum? Why does boiler drum level
change with change in pressure? Shrink and Swell?

24. What are the different chemicals injected in the boiler/feed water/ condensate
cycle?

25. What are the losses in the cooling tower? What are the chemicals that are injected
in the cooling tower?

26. What are different protections of steam turbine? (When do we check

eccentricity, differential expansion)?

27. Steam Turbine tripped during start up on vibration, what could be different
reasons that may cause this problem?

28. When does Exhaust Hood Temperature become high? At low load or at high load?

29. What are different systems that impact the condenser vacuum and hence turbine
efficiency?

30. What is Reverse Power and how does it affect the Steam Turbine and Gas Turbine
in comparison?

31. What is sub cooling? How does it affect the efficiency?

32. What is heat rate ? Tell the typical value? Tell equivalent efficiency?

33. Suggest the techniques for improving the power plant efficiency? (Water
Washing, Condenser cleaning, Inlet Cooling, FW/Condensate Heating, Acid Dew
Point Limit)

34. What type of PTW system you have? Are there any flaws in it? What is your role
in isolations and normalization? Did you hear about RISSP?
35. What is ADC, how do you carry out the this test? What are different corrections?

36. How does a CCR Operator covers his shift engineer (in meeting)? What you need
to learn and do to become a Shift Engineer?

37. What is your role regarding coordination with the load dispatch center?

38. What is safety and what are safety systems? What is your role during isolations
and switching?

39. Do you see the CCR Operator as overall coordinator? Do you like this pilot’s job?