Industrial Visit to National Power Training Institute, Faridabad
6th October, 2017
ISTE STUDENT Branch, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon organized an industrial visit to National Power Training Institute (NPTI), Faridabad on 6th October,2017. 56 students of ECE, EEE and Mechanical Department along with faculty member Mr. Ankit Makkar (Assistant Professor, ECE) visited National Power Training Institute (NPTI), Faridabad.
The main objective of the visit was to make students learn the present industry scenario and its demands.
NPTI an ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 organization, is a National Apex body for Training and HRD in Power Sector with its Corporate Office at Faridabad which also includes Centre for Advanced Management and Power Studies (CAMPS) and Centre for Excellence in GIS and Remote Sensing. NPTI operates on all India basis through its Units in different power zones of the country.
The team was welcomed by Mrs. Bhavana Choudhary (Assistant Director). She provided brief introduction of NPTI, Faridabad to students, followed by lecture session on Power sector scenario by Mr R. Senthil Kumar (Assistant Director) and Simulator visit for 500MW Thermal Power Plant.
500 MW Simulator of Thermal Power Plant is a high-quality, high-fidelity real-time full-scope 500 MW Fossil Fuel Fired Power Plant Training Simulator has been installed at NPTI’s Corporate Centre. This Simulator realistically emulates the behaviour of the entire process simulation in a real-time scenario for a meaningful and off-job operator training. This Simulator is a replica of 500 MW Stage-III, Unit 5 of Chandrapur Thermal Power Station of Maharashtra State Electricity Board. It has a unique facility of imparting training on the ‘Conventional Control Panels’ as well as on the ‘Video Process Control’ (DDC/CRT-Key Board based Unit Operation) panels.
Certificates were distributed at valedictory session. The session was knowledgeable and the students got the opportunity to see live demonstrations of different simulations.