By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: In Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, (BHEL), Bhopal unit, a three-day training programme was conducted on “Modelling and Simulation of diesel engine & traction alternator of IGBT based 3-phase Diesel Electric Multiple Units (DEMU)” at Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC).
Dr. Krishna Vasudevan, Professor from Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Prof. A. Ramesh from Internal Combustion (IC) Engines Laboratory, IIT Madras were faculty members in the training programme. The training program was inaugurated by Sukul Lomash, General Manager (TPTN & CET) the other day. Other dignitaries present on this occasion included Subash Saxena, AGM (TXM), V.K. Jain, AGM (HRDC).
In his inaugural address, Lomash informed that BHEL is one of the leading organizations in transportation field with latest technology, modern facilities, requisite expertise and experience. Commencing from the year 1962, BHEL is engaged in system design, equipment design, manufacture, supply, erection & commissioning of variety of traction equipment for electric & diesel electric traction and AC-DC main line locomotives. Over 85 per cent of the rolling stock fleet of Indian Railways is equipped with BHEL manufactured traction equipment. With expertise and modern facilities, BHEL Bhopal has entered the field of state-of-art IGBT based micro-processor controlled 3-phase drive technology for traction applications of Indian Railways. This training program is mainly intended to augment system design and engineering capability in the field of IGBT based 3-phase traction drive systems.
BHEL Bhopal and IIT Madras signed a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU), for joint working on various projects. The Memorandun of Agreement (MoA) was also signed for joint working on “Modeling and Simulation of Diesel Engine & 3-phase traction alternator of 3-phase AC DEMU”.
Dr. Vasudevan delivered lectures on modeling and simulation of 3-phase traction alternator in open loop, the closed loop control technique for alternator excitation control and combined simulation of diesel engine and traction alternator in closed loop mode for 3-phase DEMU applications. While Dr. Ramesh delivered lecture on Modelling and simulation of diesel engine in open loop, closed loop control technique for engine governor control and combined simulation.
The concluding function was chaired by chief guest Pant, Executive Director, RDSO. In his speech he stressed upon need for close interaction and working between educational institutions like IITs and industry, like BHEL for benefit of each other. He also informed that the simulation tools are essential in modern transportation systems used for system design, engineering and training of Railways personnel in simulating actual traction working and operating conditions.
The program was conducted and coordinated by Dr. A. Sivalingam, Deputy General Manager, Transportation Systems Group of BHEL Bhopal. Around 20 engineers from different departments, viz. Transportation Systems Group, Centre for Electric Transportation, Traction Machines Engineering, Control Equipment Engineering, AC Machines Engineering, Hydro Generator Engineering, etc. of Bhopal participated. Also, engineers from Corporate R&D, Hyderabad and Electronics Division (EDN) Bangalore participated in the training program. ([email protected])