https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Repairs By Marthinusen & Coutts And Actom Turbo Machines Help Boost Kelvin’s Generating Capacity

8th June 2015

  

Font size: - +

This article has been supplied as a media statement and is not written by Creamer Media. It may be available only for a limited time on this website.

Marthinusen & Coutts  (0.04 MB)

Company Announcement - Over the past 18 months Marthinusen & Coutts and ACTOM Turbo Machines have performed a comprehensive range of repairs and refurbishments for Kelvin Power Station in Kempton Park. Marthinusen &Coutts recently completed a complex repair of one of the station’s 60 MW synchronous alternators, while ACTOM Turbo Machines performed general overhauls (GO’s) on five 60 MW turbine generator sets. This work by the two business units – ACTOM Turbo Machines (formerly Cetus Turbo Machinery which was acquired by ACTOM recently to become part of the Marthinusen &Coutts division  – has contributed towards boosting the aging station’s generating capacity from 120 MW to 300 MW.

The stator of the 60 MW synchronous alternator was damaged when the unit suffered a breakdown in March last year. Tests conducted on site by Marthinusen & Coutts established that three stator bars had been damaged, whereupon it was decided to replace a total of six stator bars. “Due to the fact that the winding is of a special single-layer type in which the strands in each stator bar are individually brazed onto the associated strands of the bar next to it, the replacement of the stator bars was a prolonged process lasting several months,” said Rob Melaia, Marthinusen & Coutts’ engineering & technical executive.
In December last year Kelvin Power awarded a 30-month contract to ACTOM Turbo Machines to provide an ongoing maintenance service for the station’s turbine generator sets. 

Kelvin Power is a privately-owned coal fired power station that supplies power to Johannesburg’s City Power. The refurbishment of Kelvin’s generators and turbines illustrates Marthinusen & Coutts offering on an integrated electrical and mechanical services basis, giving customers the peace of mind that it can provide the entire solution.

To watch Creamer Media's latest video reports, click here
 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

Comments

Showroom

Weir Minerals Africa and Middle East
Weir Minerals Africa and Middle East

Weir Minerals Europe, Middle East and Africa is a global supplier of excellent minerals solutions, including pumps, valves, hydrocyclones,...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
SAIMC (Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Mechatronics and Control)
SAIMC (Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Mechatronics and Control)

Education: Consulting with member companies to obtain the optimal benefits from their B-BBEE spending, skills resources as well as B-BBEE points

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.079 0.129s - 158pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now