Successful trial operation of the South Russia 4 hydropower station units in Laos
Keywords: hydropower station, hydropower generation, clean energy
On July 6th, at 17:30 local time, the first unit of China National Heavy Machinery Industry Corporation's Laos Nam Ngum 4 hydropower station successfully completed a 72 hour trial operation.
Before the trial operation, China Heavy Machinery carefully organized and conducted a comprehensive and detailed inspection of the first unit with various participating units, and completed a series of tests including the first manual start-up, overspeed, automatic start stop, generator current and voltage boosting, current and voltage boosting with main transformer and high-voltage equipment, as well as load carrying and load shedding. During the trial operation period, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group will closely cooperate with the Lao National Power Company, the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Lao National Power Dispatch Center, the Lao Electric Power Technology Research Institute, the Lao National Power Company Unit Debugging Expert Working Group, and other parties to implement a 24-hour duty system. Professional personnel will be arranged to be on duty at key positions to monitor the operating parameters and conditions of the units in real time. During this period, the first unit continued to operate at full load of 80MW, with stable and reliable operation of the main engine, electrical and auxiliary equipment, which was highly recognized by the Lao personnel.
The Nam Ngum 4 hydropower station in Laos is located on the main stream of the Nam Ngum River in the northern part of the country. It is a drainage type hydropower station equipped with three mixed flow units with a single capacity of 80MW, with a total installed capacity of 240MW. The project is financed by the Export Import Bank of China and is a key project of the "the Belt and Road" initiative, which has attracted great attention from the Chinese and Laotian governments and local people.
At present, the commissioning work of the remaining two units is also steadily progressing. After all three units are put into operation, it is expected to provide Laos with over 872 million kilowatt hours of clean energy annually, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 576000 tons, and have a positive impact on Laos' energy development plan, socio-economic development, and local livelihood improvement.
China National Heavy Machinery Industry Corporation will uphold the core value of "customer first", spare no effort to achieve the goal of grid connected power generation for projects, and create a green and intelligent model project for the "China Laos Economic Corridor".
Home
