Egypt: The Minister of Water and Irrigation of Egypt, Hani Sweelm, has followed up on the primary pick-up procedures for the new South Portsaid Station. The station aims to improve the agricultural exchange in Zamzam Governorate, and the station lifts water from 3 banks to Bahr Bahar Baqar Bank.

As per the updates, the Minister of Water cited that “The Ministry is designing the station to be energy efficient and supplying many components of the station from Egyptian companies.” “Supply and installation of a grass grid cleaning machine to protect the units, ensure their safe operation and prolong the virtual life of the station,” he added.

In addition, it was reported that the Ministry is monitoring the design and implementation of protective works for electrical and mechanical components and secure separation of units in case of any malfunctions, along with feeding the station through two power lines to ensure the continuous operation of the station in case of a power outage. “Installing an automatic control system in operating units containing different operating modes,” reports noted.

Minister of Water and Irrigation, Sweelm directs the transfer of emergency units located at the station site to be used in other sites or emergency centres. He further received a report from Ayman, Head of the Welfare of Mechanics and Electricity, regarding the preparation for the primary pick-up of the new South Port Said Station.

Sweelm stated that the creation and installation of the electromechanical missions and the operation of the new South Port Said station to improve drainage in the leadership of 4 thousand acres in Port Said Governorate has been completed.

In his remarks, Minister Sweelm confirmed that the station includes a number of 5 units operating at 4 300 M/S per unit and a total daily expenditure of 1 . of 30 million cubic meters. The station lifts water from Kilo 30 Bank south of Port Said, Sarhan Sub Bank, and Port Said Bank to Bahr Bahar Baqar Bank.

His sovereignty added that he considered in the design of the station that electromechanical tasks would be energy-saving, where work included the installation of (4) condenser cells to improve the electrical capacity factors and thus save electricity consumption.

Moreover, in the framework of working to support local production, many components of the station were supplied by Egyptian companies, such as electricity distribution plates, adapters, grass grids, gates, grass grid cleaners, and lighting.

“The supply and installation of a grass grid cleaning machine were taken into consideration to protect the units from any waste to maintain these units to perform their duties efficiently, ensure the safe operation of the units, prolong the virtual life of the station and reduce the periods of breakdowns,” Minister of Water stated.

The necessary protective works were also designed and implemented to protect all the station’s components, whether electrical, mechanical or separation. Security of the units in case of malfunctions to avoid damaging the branches.

The station is also fed through two 120kV power lines; one is essential, and the other is backup through 2 essential adapters and two auxiliary adapters to ensure the station’s continuous operation in case of a power outage or failure in the electrical system.

On his part, the Minister continued his remarks and stated, ” It is also wonderful in the design and implementation of the station installation of an automatic control system in the operation of the units.

“The system has different operating modes starting from the fully automatic system where the system automatically turns on and off the units based on the occasion and water behaviour of the suction and discharge streams of the station which are automatically measured by the latest tracking sensors Modern technologies in monitoring and monitoring work,” said the Minister.  

In the end, the system also has a manual operation mode to enable the station to operate traditionally in case the automation system malfunctions. Sweilm has ordered the lifting of the emergency units currently at the station’s site – used in the area until the new station was renovated – consisting of 13 emergency units and relocated to use either at other locations or emergency centres.