NTDC NTS Line Superintendent-I Test Paper – Course Outline 2021

Line Superintendent-I (BPS-15) – NTDC NTS Test Paper – Course Outline 2021

General/ Professional/ Technical: (Total 85 Marks)
a) Islamic Studies (10 Marks)
b) Pakistan Studies, General Knowledge/Current Affairs (15 Marks)
a) Professional/ Technical Knowledge as per their qualification and experience are given in the advertisement of each category of the posts. (60 Marks)

Job-Related Course Content (60 Marks) Must Include:
Basic Course Contents
 Resistance, Capacitance, Inductor and their equivalence in Series and Parallel combination and Impedance
calculation, Resistivity, Conductance, and Conductivity, the effect of Temperature on Resistance, and Temperature Coefficient.
 RC, LC, RLC Circuits, Thevenin’s and Norton’s Equivalent Circuit, Maximum Power Transfer Theorem, Star-Delta Connections.
 Fundamentals of Current, Voltage, RMS value, cycle, period, frequency, amplitude, Instantaneous value.
 Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Law, Loop and Mesh Analysis.

 Generation of 2-phase, 3-phase E.M.F. and phase sequence.
 Electrical Power, types of Power (actual, apparent, reactive), Power Triangle, Power Factor, calculation of
kilowatt-hour.
 Electromagnetism (Lenz’s law, Faraday’s law) Intermediate Course Contents
 Doping in Semi-Conductors (P-type, N-Type)
 Diodes (photoelectric, Zener), Transistors (PNP, NPN, BJT, MOSFET), Thyristors, IGBTs, DIAC, TRIAC.
 Half-wave, full-wave rectification.
 Logic Gates and Flip Flops
 AC Machines (Transformers, Motors, Generators) (Synchronous and Asynchronous Machines)
 Open Circuit tests and Short Circuit Tests.
 DC Motors (Series and Shunt motors)
 Household Wiring (Earthing system, fault current, wiring tests)
 Types of Insulator (Pin, Suspension, Strain, Shackle), Material of Insulators, Flashover and Puncture Voltage.
 Corona Effect, Ferranti Effect, Skin Effect.
 Fundamentals of HVDC and HVAC Transmission Systems
 Types of Poles and Towers, Parts of Towers, Types of Conductor, Sag in Conductor Lines, Ground Clearance.
 Components of Switchyard (CT, PT, Breakers, CCVT, Wavetraps, Isolators)
 Busbar and Breaker Schemes (One and a half Scheme, Single busbar single breaker, Double busbar single
breaker, Double busbar double breaker, etc) Grounding Schemes (Solid grounding, Resistance grounding)
 Fault Current Limiting Devices.
 Types of Circuit Breakers (Air, Oil, SF6) (Spring, Hydraulic mechanism) and Arc Resistance
 Industrial Electronics (AC, DC motor controls, A/D, D/A Converters, SCR, etc)
 Hysteresis losses and Eddy’s current losses.
 Common types of faults on Alternator, Transformer, Busbar.
 Low-pass filters and High-pass filters Advanced Course Contents
 Protection of Electrical Systems (Protection Schemes of Transformers, Busbars, Transmission Lines, Overvoltage/Under-voltage protection, Overcurrent Protection, Over-frequency/under-frequency protection, Earth Fault Protection, Buchholz’s Relay
 Types of Fault (Single phase, Double phase, triple-phase, neutral faults, Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Faults etc)
 Methods of fault locating in overhead and underground lines.
 Distance Relays and their working
 T-Model and Pi-Model of Transmission lines
 Use of Shunt Reactors on Transmission Lines.
 The efficiency of Power Plants.
 Renewable energy sources (Working of PV cells, Working of Wind Mills etc)
 Harmonics and Transients.

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