Electrical Engineering - Power enginieering technical terms

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Power enginieering technical terms

pando

2006-12-25, 3:25 am

Hello guys,
my native language is not English and I have difficulties writing about
technical terms. First I need correct word about operator's job in
power plant.
For example every command room in thermal power plant has its crew.
There are guys who "run or drive" boiler, turbine and one who observe
generator. I need correct word for their job description in English. I
cannot find such informatons in ordinary dictionaries.
Can I say operator who drive turbine? I think not. Please if there is
someone who works in power plant or who is familiar with job
description of staff in power plant and s willing to help by providing
English name of jobs and description, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you very much in advance.

Beachcomber

2006-12-25, 9:25 am

On 24 Dec 2006 23:05:44 -0800, "pando" <v_asim2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hello guys,
>my native language is not English and I have difficulties writing about
>technical terms. First I need correct word about operator's job in
>power plant.
>For example every command room in thermal power plant has its crew.
>There are guys who "run or drive" boiler, turbine and one who observe
>generator. I need correct word for their job description in English. I
>cannot find such informatons in ordinary dictionaries.
>Can I say operator who drive turbine? I think not. Please if there is
>someone who works in power plant or who is familiar with job
>description of staff in power plant and s willing to help by providing
>English name of jobs and description, I would greatly appreciate it.
>Thank you very much in advance.
>
Don't say "Operator who drive turbine"... It's not good English.

I don't work in a power plant, but I believe that there are
technicians, operators, managers, supervisors, and engineers and many
other words that describe the jobs. You could put the words boiler,
generator, or turbine in front of any of these to describe a job
accurately.

Something like this...

Boiler Technician
Generator Supervisor ... or assistant generator supervisor
Turbine Engineer
Also... foreman, crew chief, maintainance supervisor,load
dispatcher, shift supervisor, director of engineering, chief engineer

All I can think of right now on Christmas morning at 3:25 AM, but I'm
sure you'll get many more contributions.

Beachcomber

Rheilly Phoull

2006-12-25, 9:25 am

"pando" <v_asim2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1167030344.265005.161550@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello guys,
> my native language is not English and I have difficulties writing about
> technical terms. First I need correct word about operator's job in
> power plant.
> For example every command room in thermal power plant has its crew.
> There are guys who "run or drive" boiler, turbine and one who observe
> generator. I need correct word for their job description in English. I
> cannot find such informatons in ordinary dictionaries.
> Can I say operator who drive turbine? I think not. Please if there is
> someone who works in power plant or who is familiar with job
> description of staff in power plant and s willing to help by providing
> English name of jobs and description, I would greatly appreciate it.
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
Well where I live (Oz) the guys who "drive" things like power house eqt,
chemical process plants etc. are called "operators" and the guys who fix
things are called "technicans". At this time there is a pronounced demand
for guys who can do both and these are called "operator technicians".
--
Cheers .......... Rheilly P

Roy

2006-12-26, 9:25 am

"panto" <v_asim2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1167030344.265005.161550@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello guys,
> my native language is not English and I have difficulties writing about
> technical terms. First I need correct word about operator's job in
> power plant.
> For example every command room in thermal power plant has its crew.
> There are guys who "run or drive" boiler, turbine and one who observe
> generator. I need correct word for their job description in English. I
> cannot find such informatons in ordinary dictionaries.
> Can I say operator who drive turbine? I think not. Please if there is
> someone who works in power plant or who is familiar with job
> description of staff in power plant and s willing to help by providing
> English name of jobs and description, I would greatly appreciate it.
> Thank you very much in advance.
>

AL BENSER

2007-01-16, 1:25 pm

You have the "Control Room" for the power plant where all the switches,
intruments, etc. are on big panels to give command to all the outside
equipment, like the boiler, turbine, generator, etc . . . . and those who
work in the control room are called 'control room engineer', 'control room
technician' etc . . . a 'boiler room operator' is wrong term because the
operation of the boiler is done from the "control room" where they have a
TV to view the boiler flames, set the pressures, the temp., etc. You can
have a "boiler technician" who works at the boiler itself for maintenance,
etc . . .

"pando" <v_asim2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1167030344.265005.161550@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello guys,
> my native language is not English and I have difficulties writing about
> technical terms. First I need correct word about operator's job in
> power plant.
> For example every command room in thermal power plant has its crew.
> There are guys who "run or drive" boiler, turbine and one who observe
> generator. I need correct word for their job description in English. I
> cannot find such informatons in ordinary dictionaries.
> Can I say operator who drive turbine? I think not. Please if there is
> someone who works in power plant or who is familiar with job
> description of staff in power plant and s willing to help by providing
> English name of jobs and description, I would greatly appreciate it.
> Thank you very much in advance.
>

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