Rahad Meina Pumping Station - Rehabilitation of Pumping Station

Rahad Meina Pumping Station - Rehabilitation of Pumping Station

Rahad Meina Pumping Station is located along the Blue Nile and was built in the late 70ies as Africas largest Pumping Station for agricultural irrigation purposes.

Today, EQ together with an Austrian Mechanical Partner has rehabilitated most of the existing equipment in order to ensure the actual and future demand for irrigation for an area of about 4.000 square-kilometres. The total pumping capacity is around 100m3 per second.

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

Delivery & Installation of seven 1,42 MW slip ring motors & rotor starters

Delivery & Installation of medium and low voltage switch gears

Delivery & Installation of cabinets for the Automation system

MV- and LV-cabling

Keywords

Pumping Station, Power Distribution, Automation