Industrial Summer Training at NTPC Badarpur

Anuj Kumar

Electronics & Communication

Introduction

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Overview of NTPC

NTPC was set up in the central sector in the 1975. NTPC has installed capacity of 29,394 MW. It plans to be a 75,000 MW company by 2017. NTPC Badarpur station has also bagged ISO 9001/ ISO 14001 certification. Today NTPC contributes more than 3 / 5th of the total power generation in India

Overview of NTPC

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Second Outline Level

Third Outline Level

Fourth Outline Level Fifth Outline Level

NTPC Badarpur

Overview of BTPS

BTPS MEETS MORE THAN 24% OF DELHIS ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION

INSTALLED CAPACITY

720 MW

705 MW (3x95 + 2x210MW) OWNED BY GOVT. OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF POWER BEING MANAGED BY NTPC FOR THE LAST 26 YEARS SINCE 1st APRIL 1978

DERATED CAPACITY

NTPC Badarpur

BTPS was conceived in 1965 to meet the growing electricity demand of Northern Region. The site construction activities started in 1968. The plant became operational with the commissioning of its first unit on 26th July 1973, 2nd unit in ;74 , 3rd unit in 75 , 4th unit in 78 & 5th unit in 81.

Basic Principle
There are basically three main units of a thermal power plant: 1. Steam Generator or Boiler 2. Steam Turbine 3. Electric Generator

Electricity from Coal

C&I LABS
Control and Instrumentation Department has following labs: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Manometry Lab Protection and Interlocks Lab Automation Lab Electronics Lab Water Treatment Plant Furnaces Safety Supervisory System Lab

OPERATION AND MAINTAINANCE

This control & instrumentation is the brain of the plant because from the relays to transmitters followed by the electronic computation chipsets and recorders and lastly the controlling circuitry, all fall under this. A View of Control Room at BTPS

CONTROL & MONITORING MECHANISMS

There are basically two types of Problems faced in a Power Plant 1. Metallurgical 2. Mechanical

C&I Lab
In C&I Lab parameters to be monitored are:
1. Speed 2. Temperature 3. Current 4. Voltage 5. Pressure 6. Flow of Gases 7. Vibration

IT Role & Responsibility

Maintenance Management Materials & Contracts Management Financial Accounting Coal Monitoring & Accounting. Operations & Generation Monitoring Hospital Management H R & TMS, T/S Management Office Automation & communication. E-Samadhan complaints Monitoring

Why IT ?

Materials : 30,000 + items

Transaction data. Master data Material and Service

Plant : 15,000 equipments

Equipment master. Task list.

Employees : 1100 + Personal and payroll data. Finance : Accounting data. Operation : Plant parameters history data Vendors: 5000 + vendors.

Satellite Communication Network

4/6 GHZ

RHQ:ERHQ, NRHQ,SRHQ,WRHQ
Engg.Office, NOIDA

Rihand,
8 MBPS M/W Link
2 GHZ/ 8 MBPS

PMI,NOIDA
2 mbps leased line

4/6 GHZ ( 512 kbps aggreagate )

Singrauli
OFC LINK

Vindhyachal

CC, SCOPE New Delhi

NTPC Hub Station At CSES, Noida

THERMAL: Farakka,Unchahar,Kahalgaon, Korba, Ramagundam, Sipat, Simhadri, Talcher (S), Talcher (T), Tanda, Barh

DADRI PROJECT

Tapovan Loharinagpala ( ORDERED )

GAS/HYDRO:Anta,Auriya,Faridabad, Gandhar, Kawas, Kayamkulam, Koldam,

Awards

MOPs Meritorious Productivity Award:

For calendar years 1987, 1988, 1990.

For financial years 92-93, 94-95 and 97-98

Received Bronze medal in 1998-99 and Received Silver shield and certificate of Meritorious performance for 2000-01. Received Gold shield and Certificate for outstanding performance three consecutive years 01-02 & 02-03 , 03-04. the awards were presented by Honble President of India and Honble power Minister on 24 August 2004.

Awards

Awards

Awards
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British safety award for 1988, 1994 and 1999. One employee bagged the Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar in 1994 from Ministry

of Labour. Six employees have been given

the same award for 1998.
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6 BTPS employees were awarded under Delhi Shramik Sujhao Yojna Puraskar97 .

BTPS awarded Silver shield in Thermal Power Sector for Outstanding Achievement in Safety management by Greentech foundation for 2003-04

BTPS awarded Greentech Environment excellence Gold Award in Thermal Power sector for 2002-03 BTPS awarded Greentech Environment excellence Gold Award in Thermal Power sector for 2003-04 BTPS received golden peacock award for IT Innovations for 2003-04

BTPS received golden peacock award for IT innovations for 2003-04

Conclusion
The BTPS IT has come a long way from lagging to leading in IT enablement among NTPC power stations. IT Vision realized, making BTPS highly information enabled plant.

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Reference

TRAINING REPORTS OF PAST YEARS AT NALANDA LIBRARY INTERNET DOCUMENTS OF IT DEPARTMENT