Electrical Installations

Outline Syllabus:

• Illumination
• Light intensity and its unit
• Eye sensitivity
• Vacuum, gas and fluorescent lamps
• Starting fluorescent lamps
• Sodium lamps and their starting
• Mercury, infrared and ultraviolet lamps, Neon lamps
• Applications of lamps
• Basic quantities and their calculations
• Illumination diagrams and tables
• Economic considerations
• Electric symbols used in wiring and illumination drawings
• Illumination calculations for houses, streets, public places and large auditoriums
• Security and safety illumination
• Provision of electrical energy
• Allowed voltage drop
• Division of electrical loading
• Calculation of cable and wire cross sections
• Current standards of household appliances
• Ground conductors
• Design of displays
• Security and alarm systems
• Protection of buildings against lightning
• TV antenna systems
• Emergency systems
• Batteries
• Diesel generators
• Rectifiers
• Inverters

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites:

• Power System Analysis I

Co-requisites:

• None