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RPSC AEn Mains Syllabus : Electrical

RPSC AEn 2024 Mains Syllabus - Electrical Engineering

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RPSC AEn Mains Syllabus : Electrical

RPSC AEn Syllabus of papers for the Assistant Engineer

Combined Competitive Examination, 2024

Main Examination

 

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING – I

Maximum Marks: 200

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Electrical Circuits:

Circuit elements, Voltage & Current Sources, KCL and KVL Analysis, Network topology, Nodal and Mesh analysis. Basic Network theorems for AC and DC circuits, Network Functions: poles and zeros. Driving point and transfer functions, Response of networks to standard input signals. Elementary network synthesis, different type of network parameters, signal flow graphs, Two-port networks, Interconnection of two port Network, Theorems in transform domain: Fourier series, Laplace transforms and their applications. Frequency response, Resonant circuits and applications, Steady state response with sinusoidal input. Three-phase balanced and unbalanced networks, Transient response: Transient analysis of RL, RC and RLC circuits, Basics of magnetically coupled circuits.

Field Theory:

Electrostatic and Magnetostatics: Electrostatics and electrical fields, Stoke’s theorem, Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations, Magnetostatics and magnetic fields, Field in conductors and in magnetic materials, field in dielectrics, Maxwell’s equations in time varying fields.

Electrical Materials:

Elementary Concepts, Classification of materials on the basis of permanent magnetic dipoles and conductivity, Electrical and electronic behaviour of materials, Dielectric Properties of insulators in static and alternating fields, Phenomenon of polarization and superconductivity, Applications of magnetic, conducting, dielectric & insulating materials.

Electrical Machines:

DC Motors: Construction, Characteristics & Applications of shunt, Series & compound motors. Torque, Efficiency and testing. DC Generators: Construction, Characteristics & Applications of shunt, Series & compound generators. EMF equation, Efficiency & testing.

Transformers: Construction, equivalent circuit, Losses, Efficiency, All-day-efficiency, Voltage regulation, Parallel operation.

Induction Motors: Three-phase induction motors: Construction, Torque, Equivalent circuit, Torque-slip characteristic, Losses, Efficiency, Speed control methods, Braking. Single-phase induction motors: Double revolving field theory, Starting methods.

Alternators: Construction, EMF equation, Winding factor, Armature reaction, Synchronous reactance, Voltage regulation, Efficiency, Parallel operation, Synchronization

Synchronous Motors: Starting, Torque, Hunting & Damping, Power-angle Characteristic, V-curves.

Power systems:

Generation: thermal, Hydro, Nuclear generation; Non-conventional energy sources. Transmission & Distribution. Transmission line parameters – Resistance, Inductance and capacitance calculation, Performance of short, medium and long lines. Neutral earthing & grounding. Underground Cables. Corona & its effects and remedial measures. Basic idea of power system stability & its types. Insulators, introduction to HVDC transmission. Switchgear & protection: theories of arc extinction. Comparative merits of minimum oil, bulk oil, air break, air blast & SF6 circuit breakers. Causes and consequences of fault currents. Current limiting reactors. Busbar arrangements. Requirements of protective relays. Protection of lines, transformers, synchronous generators and busbars. Symmetrical components and their applications.

 

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - II

Maximum Marks: 200

Electrical Measurement and Instrumentation:

General principles of measurement: Units & dimensions, Types of errors, Standard error analysis, Basic methods of measurement, Measurement of circuit parameters by bridge methods, Measuring Instrument: Indicating Instruments, Integrating Instruments, Recording instruments. Measurement of voltage, current, power, power factor, energy, resistance, inductance, capacitance and frequency.

Transducers:

Strain gauge, LVDT, Resistance thermometers, Thermisters, Piezoelectric. Measurement of non-electrical quantities: Pressure, temperature, flow rate, displacement, velocity, acceleration, strain etc.

Electronics and Communication:

Solid state semi conductor devices: Diodes, Zener diodes, Transistors (Bipolar, BJT, JFET, MOSFET). Biasing and their applications, Analysis of electronic circuits, equivalent circuit. Rectifier, filter and voltage regulators. Single stage and multistage amplifiers-gain and frequency response., flip- flops and their applications.

Large signal amplifiers:

coupling methods, push-pull amplifiers, operational amplifier, wave shaping circuits,. Multivibrators, flip-flop and their applications. Digital logic gate families, universal gates, combinational circuit for arithmetic and logic operation, sequential logic circuits. Counters, registers, RAM and ROMs.

Communication: Generation and detection of AM and FM, noise behaviour of AM and FM systems.

Power Electronics:

Power semiconductor devices, triac, GTO, MOSFET, Thyristor. Static characteristics and triggering circuits, Clipping, Clamping, A.C. to D.C. Converters, choppers. Controlled and uncontrolled power rectifiers, Bridge converters, multivibrators, Oscillators.

Microprocessor systems and computer: Fundamentals, Microprocessor architecture 8085, Instruction set and simple assembly language programming, Interfacing of peripheral devices such as General Purpose I/O, memory devices, Applications of microprocessors. Basic layout of digital computers, input-output devices, memory organisations, algorithms, flowcharts.

Control System:

Open and closed loop systems: Block diagrams and signal flow graphs, Transfer function models of linear time-invariant systems, Response analysis in time and frequency domain; steady state error analysis. Concept of Stability, Routh- Hurwitz Criteria, Nyquist criteria, Relative Stability analysis, Bode plots, gain margin, phase margin.