Hama-sana
The efforts and expertise of the local cadres working in the General Company for Iron and Steel Products in Hama succeeded in maintaining and repairing the electrical transformer that feeds the first arc furnace within the company's smelting plant with a capacity of 21 megawatts.
The general manager of the company, Eng. Abdel Nasser Mishaan, explained to SANA's correspondent that the company's maintenance technicians and engineers were able to maintain the transformer and put it back to work again at much lower material costs than the costs of importing a new transformer from abroad.
In turn, Eng.Khalid Mohsen, the technical director of the company, indicated that the smelting plant includes two arc furnaces each with a capacity of about 30 tons of melted billet iron liquid and a production capacity of 150 tons per day with one rosette in addition to a crucible furnace and a continuous casting machine number 2 indicating that the electric arc transformer Maintained, feeding the smelter 50 percent of its need.
For his part, Eng. Sufyan Al-Abdullah, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Maintenance of the Transformer, stated that it is an Indian-made CG model and was put into service in 2017, weighing 84 tons, and was subjected to a failure in the income file of 33 kilovolts for the first phase, and due to the difficulty and high costs of transporting it outside Syria, the company used its local cadres. To carry out maintenance work.
Engineer Ziyad al-Hakim, director of the smelting plant, stated that the transformer was transferred from the factory to one of the company's halls through a huge crane and unscrewed it, which is composed of 15 copper files, and repaired the damaged files of 33 kilovolts by rewinding, isolating and fixing them within its bases, conducting experimental tests on it and returning it to its place within the smelting plant. And re-refining the oil to raise its isolation and conduct a technical examination of the transformer by the staff of Hama Electricity Company, whose results showed its technical readiness to work without any leakage or drop in its performance.
The engineers Muhammad Al-Yassin, Ahmed Al-Sheikh and Ahmed Al-Muhammad, who participated in the maintenance of the transformer, indicated that the repair and rehabilitation work took 4 months and that its completion with national cadres reduced the high material costs of shipping abroad.
Abdullah Sheikh