A scientific trip to the Zafarana wind station

Saturday 16 March 2019 was our appointment with a scientific visit to the wind farms site for electricity generation in Zafarana area on the Gulf of Suez. The visit lasted more than three hours, during which the following four activities were carried out:
1- A lecture on the station’s history and its technical contents presented by the station’s maintenance manager. The station consists of eight projects that were implemented from 1998 to 2010, followed by stages of replacement, renovation and maintenance. The farm includes three successive technologies with capacities of 600, 660 and 850 kilowatts per turbine respectively ... with a total installed capacity close to 600 MW. The length of a single turbine blade is 23 meters. The majority of generators are of the Wound-rotor Induction generator whose performance is controlled by the rotor circuit. The third newest technology uses a double-fed induction generator, which is the same technology used in the modern station that was inaugurated last year in Jabal Al-Zait ... after Al-Zafarana, about 140 km in the direction of Hurghada.
2- A visit to the station's workshops, which carry out maintenance and repair operations for all parts of the turbine system ... In addition, a group of turbine blades (blades) were inspected in the yard assigned to them.
3- Visiting the turbines control room of the three projects.
4- A visit to one of the turbines for a practical briefing on the control system installed at the base of the tower.

A scientific trip to the high voltage research laboratory

After the establishment of the High Dam power station and the transmission of electrical energy from Aswan to the load centers in various parts of the Republic, work began on building a high voltage research center at 27 km Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road. - The High Voltage Research Center started its activities since 1969, when many studies and researches were conducted aimed at developing the use of electrical equipment, improving its performance and finding optimal solutions to the problems facing the operation of the unified electrical network, as more than 120 international papers have been published so far in conferences.

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