Under Ground Cable Engineering detailed syllabus for Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the EEE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electrical & Electronics Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit EEE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to EEE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of under ground cable engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL POWER CABLES 9 Development of Underground Cables – Electric Lighting- Distribution of Energy for Lighting- – Paper Insulated Cables – Underground Residential Distribution Systems-Underground Residential Distribution Systems- Medium Voltage Cable Development.
Unit II
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Unit III
SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND CABLES 9 Supply Distribution Systems – Distribution Cable Types, Design and Applications – Paper Insulated Distribution Cables – PVC Insulated Cables – Polymeric Insulated Distribution Cables for 6-30 kV – Manufacture of Distribution Cables – Joints and Terminations for Distribution Cables – Testing of Distribution Cables. .
Unit IV
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Unit V
CABLE INSTALLATION, TESTING, MAINTENANCE 9 Installation of Transmission Cables -Splicing, Terminating, and Accessories – Sheath Bonding and Grounding-Testing of Transmission Cable Systems – Underground System Fault Locating – Field Assessment of Power Cable Systems- Condition monitoring tests -PD measurements.
Skill Development Activities
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Course Outcomes:
- Ability to understand the fundamental of underground cable system.
- Ability to gain knowledge on the architecture of UG cable and physical and electrical characteristics of the UG cable.
- Ability to understand different types of cable used in distribution system.
- Ability to acquire knowledge on Underground cables used in transmission system
- Ability to understand the cable installations procedures and practices.
- Ability to understand the theory / methodology of cable fault detection and rectification, testing and maintenance.
Text Books:
- William Thue, Electrical Power Cable Engineering, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group., 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742, 3rd Edition 2017.
- G. F. Moore, Electric Cables Handbook -Third edition, Blackwell Science Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK., January 2017.
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