The Institution of Certificated Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, South Africa

WESTERN CAPE BRANCH ENGINEERING BULLETIN - 2006 EDITIONS

March 2006

1. New proposed Electrical Installation Regulations were published for comment in Government Gazette Notice Number 28293 dated 9 December 2005.

2. An explosion occurred at a rubber manufacturers premises in London when the lid of a blow down pit and its fastenings was blown.................

3. Examination model answer. Steam entering a nozzle of a turbine, has a saturated vapor value of 2769 kJ/kg. At exit to the nozzle the saturated steam vapor is 2258 kJ/kg and a has also saturated liquid value of 417
   kJ/kg.

4. Examination model answer. OHS Act June 2002 Question (2): (a) In terms of the General Administrative Regulations, incidents must be reported to the provincial director of the Department of Labor.

5. Electricity Generation in Cape Town Part III. The Steenbras project. A thesis was submitted which proposed the use of existing reservoirs on Table Mountain as an upper water supply source, with a power station of 50 000 kW capacity situated to the south of the mountain in Orange Kloof.

September 2006

1. Comment of GCC examinations pass rate
2. Examination model answer. OHS Act Nov 2001. Electrical machinery regulations.
3. Examination model answer. Plant Engineering Nov 1988. Heat exchangers.
4. Electricity Generation in Cape Town Part IV. Steenbras civil engineering works.

December 2006

1. Fires and Explosions in air compressor installations. Case studies.
2. Use of lock out systems. Portable concrete mixer incident - leg amputation.
3. Registered lifting machine inspectors.
4. Examination model answer. OHS Act November 1999. Machine guarding.
5. Examination model answer. Plant Engineering Nov 2006. Transformer load and efficiency calculations.
6. Electrical safety on building sites.