The 16th International Training Programme on "Wind Turbine Technology and Applications" was successfully organized by the ITCS Unit during 12th August to 08th September 2015 to address all aspects of Wind Power starting from introduction to wind and its technology, wind resource assessment, installation, operation and maintenance aspects of wind farms along with financial analysis and CDM benefits. This is a special training course for ITEC / SCAAP Countries sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India under ITEC / SCAAP course. The course was attended by 18 Participants from 12 countries (Afghanistan, Gambia, Guyana, Laos, Malawi, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe).
This course was inaugurated by Shri. Veerendra, Deputy Director General, National Productivity Council, Chennai.
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| Course Material release during inauguration |
The course content for the training was very comprehensive and the lectures of the course were delivered by eminent Scientists, Engineers and other wind energy professionals with years of experience who were drawn from NIWE, wind turbine industries and academic institutions. During the 28 days course, Forty six classroom lectures were handled apart from practical training, field & factory visits to provide complete knowledge transfer to the participants.
To provide hands on experience, all the participants visited M/s. MinVayu at Auroville (Pondicherry) where they had a chance of manufacturing Small Wind Turbine themselves after getting theoretical training of how to manufacture the Small Wind Turbine with the local materials at low cost.
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| Participants in the process of manufacturing Small Wind Turbine Blade, Pondicherry | |
As part of the training course, practical training with Wind Resource Assessment, instrumentation, Testing & R&D equipments was arranged apart from the factory visit to M/s Regen powertech, TADA where they had a chance of listening from the industry experts who are actually in the process of making wind turbines and visiting the manufacturing facilities.
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| Participants at ReGen Powertech Manufacturing Factory, TADA | |
Participants also had a chance to look into wind tunnel facility at the Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Taramani and visited the State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC). Both the visits have given a huge insight about the pre - testing of the structures and Dispatch centre.
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| Participants at Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Taramani | |
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| Participants at State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC), Chennai | |
As part of the study visit, all the participants were travelled to southern part of Tamil Nadu to visit Wind Turbine Test / Research Station located at Kayathar and got to know about small and large wind turbine testing process apart from visiting wind farms in and around Kanyakumari, where wind turbines are installed in large numbers like coconut trees.
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| Participants at R&D Wind Turbine and Substation at Kayathar | |
Shri. T Sankaralingam, Former Chairman and Managing Director, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was the Chief Guest for the valedictory function and distributed the course certificates to the all the participants.
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| Shri. T Sankaralingam delivering the Valedictory address and distributing the Course Certificate | |
The course structure and organization of training was highly appreciated by the participants. The participants were very much satisfied by the quality of lectures and hospitality they found in India.
