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VOLUME 9
ISSUE NO. 11 JULY 2018
IEEMA JOURNAL
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Electrical Industry Records Highest Growth of 12.8% in Years
Cover Story Industry Growth 2017-18
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Expert Speak Transformers Humming Noise Causes & Reduction Techniques Opinion Power with Quality, Reliability with Security Solutions Fire Retardant & Environment Friendly Mobile Transformer Interview Mr Alok Agarwal, Chairman, IEEMA DT Division
Face to Face Mr Prakash Chandraker,
VP & MD Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd
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From the President’s Desk
Dear Friends, While electricity is a wonderful aspect of modern life, it can be dangerous if we aren’t careful. Electrical fires are a frequent occurrence in India. We read and hear of instances in the news regularly describing ghastly fire accidents causing massive damage to property and claiming innocent lives. Majority of electrical fires are a result of short circuit due to old wiring, damaged or poor quality of equipment and faulty outlets. Be it slums, high-rises, restaurants, industrial units, studios or old buildings – each has witnessed massive fire incidents this year. The violation of fire safety regulations has turned each into a tinder box, said experts. According to the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2009, buildings are supposed to conduct a fire audit twice a year - in January and July – and submit the fitness certificates to the nearest fire department. ‘In the last six years, there have been 29,140 fire incidents in Mumbai in which 300 people have died and 925 people have been injured.’ ‘So, at least 10 to 12 fire accidents take place in Mumbai every day.’ In most of cases the fire is caused due to short circuit, and especially in crowded cities, and high rises where countless lives have been lost. It is high time that even the establishment owners take onus of the high degree of risk that comes with the use of poor quality cables and should conduct proper research before making the final selection. The quality of cables should not be compromised for the sake of price. With the rapid growth in infrastructure and urbanization there is a growing need for specialty cables. Fire survival cables, especially, have seen a steady demand in places inhabited by people with limited mobility like hospitals, clinics or with unfamiliar layout of buildings like malls and cinema halls and crowded places like offices, schools, etc where the need to evacuate people during fire breakouts is of primary concern. Cables play a key role in safety of an establishment with respect to fires, as they are a vital link between emergency equipment and their power or control source and hence it is crucial that they must remain functional even during a fire. IEEMA recently conducted its first “Electrical Fire Safety Conclave” which witnessed the presence of eminent speakers and delegates across the industry. More such conclaves are lined up in near future in rest of the part of India.
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Samvaad...
Dear Members, Indian power sector is not only growing, but also undergoing a significant change that has redefined the industry outlook. The electrical and industrial electronics industry has witnessed a record double-digit growth of 12.8 per cent in 2017-18 after a period of seven years. The industry started showing signs of revival from Quarter 3 when it witnessed a growth of 25% and later 14% in the fourth quarter. This stupendous performance is attributed to Government’s schemes like DDUJGY, IPDS and Saubhagya where the country is racing to provide electricity to all households. The government unveiled Rs 16,320 crore Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) in September 2017 to provide electricity connection to around 4 crore families in rural and urban areas, by December 2018. IEEMA recently joined hands with government for this cause, IEEMA along with REC has created a North East Cell to give impetus to this growth by emphasizing on distribution in North East. This cell will facilitate to remove any bottleneck in implementation of projects in the North Eastern States of India. We believe that this growth momentum will be sustained since major chunk of transmission and distribution projects are likely to be ordered in next fiscal. However, most of the orders would be through EPC route with more new players entering the business and sub-contracting the same to existing contractors. The sector seem to be reviving from long spell of negative growth. The Government of India is also taking a number of steps and initiatives like 10-year tax exemption for solar energy projects, etc., in order to achieve India’s ambitious renewable energy targets of adding 175 GW of renewable energy, including addition of 100 GW of solar power, by the year 2022. The government has also sought to restart the stalled hydro power projects and increase the wind energy production target to 60 GW by 2022 from the current 20 GW.
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Contents
the leading electrical & electronics monthly
Volume 9 Issue No. 11 July 2018 CIN U99999MH1970GAP014629 Official Organ of Indian Electrical & Electronics Manufacturers’ Association Member: Audit Bureau of Circulation & The Indian Newspaper Society
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Face to Face IEEMA Journal spoke to Mr Prakash Chandraker, VP & MD, Schneider Electric India about the efforts made by his team for delivering such world class digital service which a smart city promises. Excerpts from the interview
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Cover Story Electrical industry records highest growth of 12.8% in seven years After a lull of almost seven years, the Indian Electrical equipment industry has once again gained momentum by clocking an impressive growth of 12.8% in FY 17-18 Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 saw impressive growth of 25% and 14% respectively High growth in segments like rotating machines (12%), HT Motors (18%), cables (20%) and Meters (28%)
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Interaction
Expert speak
Indian power transformer industry after 5 years of struggle is finally looking up for good times: Mr Aaditya Dhoot
Transformers Humming Noise - causes & reduction Techniques
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Interaction The demand of Distribution Transformers is expected to grow at 5% - 10% per annum in next five years: Mr Alok Agarwal
Transformers noise and vibration reduction techniques with the growing consciousness on the unkind effects of noise pollution, many users are specifying lower noise levels for transformers. Noise level is very important operational characteristic of Transformer.
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Event IEEMA creates cell to monitor household electrification in North East
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Solution Fire retardant and environment friendly mobile transformer
Mobile substations unit (MSU) are fully equipped electrical substations mounted on semitrailers. The most important advantages of these units are their rapid integration into the network and the ability to reuse them in different places.
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Insight Some Critical Studies on Advancement of Smart Grid Technology
The electric power system is undergoing a profound change driven by a number of needs, including environmental compliance and energy conservation. Grid reliability, operational efficiencies and customer service become important with aging infrastructure.
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In Depth
Opinion
Active repair of Distribution Transformer – A novel concept to reduce DISCOM losses – Field Pilot
Power with Quality, Reliability with security
The high monetary value of a transformer has placed the transformer life-time optimization into the focus of asset management. Distribution Transformers (DTs) are key assets for any distribution network. Their reliable and efficient operations is important for strong economic standing of the DISCOMs. Many DISCOMs follow DT energy audit, but that focuses on AT&C losses external to the DT.
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Guest Article Earthing Electrodes for LV/HV & Transformer/DG applications better installation practices
Any country, if grouped under the phase of DEVELOPING COUNTRY then its growth in each sector has to embrace the concept of innovation and emerging technology. India, our country is now in the phase of transition and already has set its road map in the field of energy sector.
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Achievement
Infocus Worldwide market surveillance testing avenues for power transformer energy performance This paper reports the results of the research carried out by Power transformer Task 2.1 „Worldwide and EU Technical standard and legislative framework into the WP2 - Landscape of testing avenues“ of the INTAS project
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International News Earthing System is essential for any electrical installation to avoid dangers associated with fault currents and lightning strikes. A properly designed common earthing system is used for both electrical system and lightning protection system.
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International Event
Power Scenario
IEEMA Delegation to Asean Power Grid Summit (APGS 2018) SEAN Power Grid Summit 2018 with the theme “Enhancing ASEAN Power Grid Investment towards Regional Energy Optimisation” was held from May 21-23, 2018 in Vientianne.
Global Scenario Indian Scenario
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IEEMA Database Basic Prices & Indices Production Statistics
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Expert Speak
IEEMA-Southern-Region
Transformer Asset Health Indices: What You Need to Know There is much talk in the industry about ‘asset health indices’ and th¬eir use. This paper sets out some of the basics and shows where clarity is needed to avoid error.
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Thoughts Adverse Impact of Long Warranty Periods The network of Distribution Companies has been expanding in line with the Government policies, and along with the aspirations of the people of our Country. In 2002, the then Central Government announced an ambitious scheme of ELECTRICITY FOR ALL.
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Editorial Board Advisory Committee Founder Chairman Mr R G Keswani
Chairman Mr Shreegopal Kabra
Members Mr Sunil Misra Mr Naveen Kumar Mr. Vikram Gandotra Mr. Mustafa Wajid Mr. Purnendu Chaubey Mr. Mithul Thakkar
Sub Editor Ms Shalini Singh
Advertisements Incharge Mr Gautam Sakhalkar
Circulation Incharge Ms Chitra Tamhankar
Statistics & Data Incharge Mr Ninad Ranade
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