Erediba Pumping Station - Rehabilitation of Pumping Station

Erediba Pumping Station - Rehabilitation of Pumping Station

Erediba Pumping Station is located along the Blue Nile and was built in the late 70ies for irrigating the sugar cane fields of Sennar Sugar Company, spread over almost 20.000 hectares.

Today, EQ together with an Austrian Mechanical Partner has rehabilitated two complete pump units in order to ensure the actual and future demand for irrigation. Each pump unit has a capacity of around 6,5m3 per second (head = 19,4m).

EQ’s scope of Supply & services consisted mainly of Basic & Detail-Engineering, Supply and Installation of electrical equipments for the Pumping Station:

Delivery & Installation of two 1,6 MW slip ring motors

Delivery & Installation of rotor starters

Delivery & Installation of Power Factor Correction System

MV- and LV-cabling

Keywords

Pumping Station, Power Distribution, Automation