Plant and equipment may include: gas turbines; gas turbine emission control equipment; gas turbine exhaust gas control dampers; heat recovery steam generators and auxiliary plant; heat recovery steam generator supplementary duct firing equipment; fuel delivery systems; fuel management systems; flame detection equipment; steam temperature control equipment; AC and DC electrical distribution systems; electrical switchgear; electric motors; electric motor driven pumps and fans; diesel engine driven auxiliary plant; station water distribution systems; hydraulic power oil systems; compressed air systems; distributed control systems; supervisory, protection, alarm and control equipment. Safety standards may include relevant sections of Occupational Health and Safety legislation, enterprise safety rules, relevant State and federal legislation, national standards for plant and Australian standards. Information and documentation sources may include verbal or written communications; enterprise safety rules documentation; enterprise operating instructions; computer-based and computer accessed documentation; enterprise/site standing and operating instructions; enterprise log books; manufacturer's operation and maintenance manuals; and equipment and alarm manuals. Technical and operational indicators may include stimuli (auditory, olfactory, tactile, visual), local indicators and recorders, computers and alarms (visible and/or audible). Communications may be by direct personal interaction or by means of telephone, verbal or text-based telephone messaging, two way radio, pager, computer (electronic mail) and/or operating logs (written or verbal). Appropriate personnel for consultation, giving or receiving direction may include: supervisor/team leader or equivalent, power plant operations personnel or equivalent, technical and engineering officers or equivalent, maintenance staff, other operating staff or equivalent, system controller/network controller, field operator, restricted H.V. operators, independent generators and customers and contractor staff. Operating environment may be remote from the plant and equipment being operated, (in cases where operation is assisted by remote indication of operating parameters and plant status), during inclement or otherwise harsh weather conditions, in hot/wet/noisy/dusty/elevated/confined or enclosed areas or during night periods. Plant operations (systems requirements) may include: Load changes over the full range of operation up to and including maximum continuous rating, operational testing. Operational tests may include: Loss of a major auxiliary control response checks; stand-by plant "cut-in" tests; dampers/valves operating checks and post start tests. Faults and abnormal operating conditions may include: Gas Turbine trip, excessively high or low steam/water drum level, loss of a major auxiliary; loss of electrical supply to switchboards, drive motors or valve actuators; feedwater chemical operating limits exceeded; automatic control loop(s) malfunctions; high temperatures on/in, heat recovery steam generator heating surfaces/tubes/headers, low temperatures on/in, heat recovery steam generator heating surfaces/tubes/headers; High/low superheater or reheater steam temperatures; high temperatures on/in: motor and/or pump bearings, lubricating oil or motor windings; heat exchange element tube leaks; excessive drum water level split; excessively high heating/cooling rates; loss of flame on supplementary firing combustors; fuel delivery system malfunction; fuel preparation and delivery systems fires; high differential pressures on oil/air filters and strainers; failed field devices; failed/malfunctioning actuators/dampers/valves; feedwater pumps malfunctions; heat recovery steam generator protection operation. Generic terms are used throughout this Training Package for vocational standard shall be regarded as part of the Range Statement in which competency is demonstrated. The definition of these and other terms are given in Volume 2, Part 1. |