Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution at Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL)

Abstract

Internship provides students the opportunity to test their interest in a particular zone and also provides students high level of practical knowledge. East West University has added this internship program for the graduating students to introduce them to the professional life. We got an opportunity to complete our internship at Ashuganj Power Station which is the second largest power station in Bangladesh. Our internship started on 24th August, 2012 and ended on 07th September, 2012 which included 105 working hours. There we worked as a team and visited different units of APSCL. We got practical knowledge about power plants and observed the operating system of power plants. There we also got the knowledge of power distribution and maintenance of that plant. We were assigned to the combined cycle power plant, but we were lucky because during this internship period we got a chance to visit steam power plant, gas engine power plant, substation, water management plant and other auxiliary components of power station. We gathered practical experience about different major components of power station such as diesel engine, compressor, combustion chamber, gas turbine, steam turbine, operation and control unit, cooling system and maintenance procedures of the plants. We gathered practical knowledge about different types of equipment used in the substation of the APSCL such as power transformers, instrument transformers, circuit breakers, relays, lightning arresters, bus-bar, and transmission and distribution system. We learnt about the water management system for all power generating units of ASPSL. Inside the report we described about our experiences at APSCL.