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ITCS unit had successfully organized the 10th International Training programme on “Wind Turbine Technology and Applications” during 20th March – 12th April 2013. This is a special training course for African Countries sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India and supported by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. The course was attended by 21 enthusiastic participants from 7 countries (Burundi, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda).
The course content for the training was very comprehensive syllabus covering all aspects of wind power starting from wind resource assessment, wind farm layout, installation & commissioning and operation & maintenance and economics analysis of wind farms.
The training course was inaugurated by Shri. M. P. Ramesh, President, Wind World (India) Limited and the former Executive Director, C-WET.
The lectures were delivered by eminent scientists, engineers, wind turbine manufacturers, developers, utilities, consultants and academicians and other wind energy professionals with years and years of experience. During the 24 days of the course, 44 lecture were delivered of which 26 lectures were taken by 18 C-WET scientists and rest by 5 manufacturers, 4 developers, 2 consultants, and 4 premier Academicians.
The lectures often included exercises and case studies to stimulate active participation and dialogue. Excursions to operating wind farms and manufacturing facilities, and practical activities on the actual grounds to provide complete knowledge transfer to the participants. This training acted as a liaison between various ministries, industries and academic institutions in Africa and India.
As part of the training course, the practical training with Wind Resource Assessment laboratory, instrumentation of Testing & R&D facilities ware also showcased apart from the factory visits to M/s. Leitner Shriram Manufacturing Limited and M/s. Gamesa Wind Turbines Private Limited where they have had a chance of listening from the industry experts who is actually in the process of making wind turbines including the blades and visiting the manufacturing facilities.
To provide hands on experience, all the participants visited M/s. MinVayu facilities at Auroville where all the participants had a chance of manufacturing Small Wind Turbine themselves after getting theoretical training of how to manufacturing the Small Wind Turbine with the local materials at low cost.
As part of the study visit, all the participant were also 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 and they also visited wind farms in and around Kanyakumari, where wind turbines are installed in large numbers like coconut trees.
Participants were stayed at Kanyakumari during the study visit period and the experience at Cape Comerin (southern tip of India) are so exciting to the participants such as seeing the sunrise & sunset and cultural visits showcasing the spiritual heritage of India.
Prof .J. S. Mani Head of the Department, Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras was the chief guest for the valedictory function and he distributed the course certificate to the all the participants.
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.