COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and exercises where participants will visit the workshop and they will be introduced to various equipment. Practical sessions will be performed in order to apply the theory learnt in the class. 

 

This course is designed to provide an overview of caterpillar diesel generator maintenance. It covers the structure and component of diesel generator; the diesel systems and terminology; the diesel and gaseous fuel engines and components including air, oil, cooling, exhaust, fuel systems, governors, components, voltage, frequency and regulators; and the start, stop, auto start, safeties, alarms and shutdowns, controller types, inspection checklist, oil, fuel, coolant sampling, load banking, equipment & installation, day tanks, chargers, block heaters and remote annunciators. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the compression ratio, bore, stroke, combustion chamber, diesel operation, diesel systems, transfers back, engine cools down, generator shuts off, time delays, generator construction and generator operations; synchronizing, loading and unloading, reactive capability and power factor; the generator testing and commissioning, load testing, load rejection and generator fault finding; and the rotor earth fault, shorted turns, stator winding faults, generator repair capability, voltage regulators and excitation systems.