Getting job for fresh electrical engineers are somehow difficult but if you prepare yourself for interview and get prior skills, it can be easy for you to get job and mention all skills in your CV.
Here in this article we are going to cover which technical knowledge or skills are required for electrical engineer to get job in chemical industry.
Following are main topics to cover and read before interview to get interviewer impressed
- Troubleshooting and maintenance of Electrical and Instrumentation devices.
- Instrumentation devices Include Pressure transmitters, flow transmitter, temperature and level transmitters including all types of sensors. Get the knowledge of working principles of all sensors. Check the videos of calibration and troubleshooting of these transmitters.
- Get DCS Distributed Control System Knowledge i.e. specially Yokogawa system which is widely used in industries.
- Instrumentation and Control Panel Working, design schematics.
- General Electrical Panel Design Basics
- General Control System Panel Design Basics.
- Working principles of large VFDs. Troubleshooting, calibration and maintenance
- AC Variable Speed Motors
- How to do preventive and breakdown maintenance of all electrical and instrument components.
- How to read Electrical and Instrument Design Documents
- Commissioning, Installation and assessment of process chemical plants
- HMIs (Human Machine Interfaces) Working principle and Programming like Wincc, Citec, Rockwell HMIs.
- Get familiar with PLCs working principle, programming, installation and Commissioning. Famous PLCs are Simatic S7, S3, Allen Bradley SLC 500, Control Logics 5000.
- Maintenance of A.C Motor (up to 870kw), D.C Motors (up to 530kW), Converters, Inverters, H. T and L. T Switchgears etc.
- Chemical Plant Safety Instructions
- Work Permit System procedure in chemical plants.
- Get some knowledge of PHA and HAZOP studies as Electrical interface with other disciplines.
- Check the Maintenance & testing of Siemens Transformers in google and youtube. Most famous tests are Insulation Resistance (IR) testing, Polarization Index (PI) & Oil dielectric strength. Coordinated for Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) test of transformer oil.
- Start up, Synchronization and Preventive Maintenance of Gas Turbine Generators 21 MW, Steam Turbine Generator (5MW) and Emergency Diesel Generator (2.5MW).
- Get manuals and study for Generators, Motors, LV switchgear, Transformers, lighting systems, UPS & DC Charger Systems.
- How to do overhauling of Medium voltage and Low Voltage Motors. Lot of videos are available at Youtube.
- Study about some international standard of electrical engineering field related to above topics.
- Operation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of SIEMENS SIVACON LV Switchgear, LV Protection Relays SIMOCODE PRO-V.
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All above topics are important and essential to get job in chemical plants as electrical engineer. Just search these topics on google and Youtube and get knowledge of all electrical terms.
By preparation of above topics you will be much confident to attend interview as experienced professional.
Who can be join as Electrical Engineer?
- B.E in Electrical Engineering
- B.E in Electrical Computer Engineering
- B.E in Computer Science Engineering
- B.E in Telecom Engineering
- B.E in Electronics Engineering
- B.E in Mechatronics Engineering
Electrical Engineer Salary
In Asian countries, mostly electrical engineers get average salary of 1K $ and in middle east areas salary around is 3K $. And in America and European Countries starting engineers get 5K $ per month.
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