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NCCER Power Generation I&C Maintenance Technician Level 4
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NCCER
This individual has demonstrated the ability to: • Identify NEC® requirements for standby/emergency power systems • Describe the use of storage batteries • Explain how process control detectors, transducers, and transmitters operate • Install electronic transmitters • Calibrate pneumatic and 4-20mA instruments • Describe the operation of actuators and positioners • Perform control valve and actuator maintenance • Perform continuity checks on pneumatic/electrical systems …see more skills below.
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…skills continued… • Identify types of process control loops • Commission loops • Describe process controller modes • Set up/maintain pneumatic controllers • Describe network topologies • Run/terminate CAT 6 and coaxial cables • Identify digital logic gates/circuits • Calibrate supervisory instrumentation elements • Explain control strategies for major boiler and HRSG variables • Identify preventive/predictive maintenance processes • Describe DCS installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
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· Explain how UPSs operate · Calibrate Smart transmitters using a HART® communicator · Troubleshoot control valve failures · Interpret valve markings/nameplates · Prove and calibrate a loop · Define process measurement and control · Identify the elements of an instrumentation channel · Identify process characteristics that demand process control · Explain the basics of process control loops · Identify types of process control applications and loops
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· Identify sensing devices used in supervisory instrumentation · Explain how devices communicate in an industrial network · Identify internet application protocols · Describe digital logic elements, flip-flops, shift registers, and counters · Describe methods of nondestructive testing · Describe DCS applications in industrial environments