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SPARKS
ELECTRICAL NEWS MARCH 2016
9 ENERGY MEASUREMENT & SUPPLY
DIARY
Power & Electricity World Africa
conference and exhibition
The 19th annual Power & Electricity World
Africa conference and exhibition will be held at
the Sandton Convention Centre on 15 and 16
March 2016. For more information, visit
Nuclear Africa
Nuclear Africa will be held from 16 to 18 March
at the Nt’Shonalanga Valley Resort, Centurion,
Pretoria. For more information, contact Carol van
Niekerk on +27 12 807 3920.
Wonderware X-Change User Conference
2016
The X-Change User conference will be held at
Sun City from 17-20 April 2016. For more infor-
mation, visit or contact Clar-
ise on 082 859 9318.
IESSA 12th AGM and Conference
IESSA’s 12th AGM and conference will be held
at the Cape St Francis Resort from 15 to 18 May.
Enquiries: Sue Swash at .
Grand Designs Live Home and Garden
Show
The Grand Designs Live Home and Garden
Show – with headline sponsor Black+Decker –
will take place at The Ticketpro Dome, North-
gate, from 20 – 22 May. For more information,
visit
POWER-GEN Africa and DistribuTECH
Africa
POWER-GEN Africa and DistribuTECH Africa
2016 will be held in partnership with host utility
Eskom at the Sandton Convention Centre from
19 – 21 July 2016. Enquiries: +27 11 869 9153.
For more details, visit
Save the date for KITE industrial exhibition
The KZN Industrial Technology Exhibition (KITE)
will be held at the Durban Exhibition Centre from
25 to 28 July and will focus on sourcing new
technology and services. Enquiries: Loftie Ea-
ton or Mark Anderson on +27 41 585 8274 or
+27 10 003 3063. For more information, visit
Southern African Association of Energy
Efficiency
The 11th Southern African Energy Efficiency
Convention will take place on 8 and 9 Novem-
ber 2016 at Emperors Palace, Gauteng. Enquir-
ies: Lydia Marais on +27 18 293 1499, at email
or visit
Electra Mining Africa
Electra Mining Africa will be held at the Expo
Centre in Johannesburg, from 12 to 16 Septem-
ber 2016. For more information, contact Leatitia
van Straten at email
or visit .
CUSTOMISED MOBILE SUBSTATION WITH UNIGEAR
DIGITAL SWITCHGEAR DELIVERED
ABB has delivered a complete modular pack-
aged substation to Sasol Secunda plant in
Mpumalanga, almost eliminating unplanned
power outages during annual shutdown peri-
ods. The mobile substation is made up of 14
panels of UniGear ZS1 medium voltage (MV)
switchgear, future-proof protection and con-
trol technology. This innovation, aptly named
E-House, is specifically tailored to Sasol’s
needs such as slope plant flooring and con-
stant movement around the plant.
The E-House was designed by ABB and
Sasol engineers with a scope that required a
universal switchboard in a mobile substation,
suitable to be operated at 3.3, 6.6 and 11 KV
without significant changes to the switch-
gear configurations. This optimised solution
was created to energise and protect motor
feeders, transformer feeders and line feeders
without changing of protection equipment.
Secondary Switchgear & Modular Systems
product group manager, Hermanus Jooste
says, “This project was exciting because of
the many delicate considerations that had
to be built and that are outside our scope
– such as an air suspended trailer to en-
able effortless plant mobility for the sub-
station. The outcome is a brilliant solution
for Sasol.”
Enquiries: +27 10 202 5090