INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO IBRI POWER GRID STATION

Industrial Link Committee, Engineering Department has organized an Industrial visit to Oman Transmission Power Grid Station, Ibri on 20th March 2023. Eighteen (18) students of Diploma Electrical Engineering along with one lecturer (Mr Veera Nagi Reddy) and one instructor (Mr Jayashankar) of University of Technology and Applied sciences-Ibri visited the Grid Station.
Oman Transmission Grid Sub-Station-Ibri, maintained by Oman Electricity Transmission Company, is the first grid connected station to the first solar powered generation station in Oman. The grid station has six Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) bays with a voltage of 220 kV, protection equipment, communication and monitoring systems and its fire protection systems. The power generated from the generating station is transferred directly to the main network through 220 kV ground cables, from which gas circuit breakers are fed, which in turn transfers the power to the main network of the Oman Electricity Transmission Company through overhead transmission lines.
We reached the sub-station at 8.55AM. The Sub-Station staff received us well. Head of Zone Engineer, Mr. Yahya Awadh Al Ghafri, gave an overview of the sub-station and career opportunities for the students. Senior Engineer, Mr Waleed Abdullah Al Kalbani explained the safety rules in sub-station and grid station layout and operation with the help of power point slides.
Operation and Maintenance Engineers (Mr. Abdulaziz Al Yaqoobi, Mr. Salim Al Sawafi and Mr. Mohammed Al Skhboori) demonstrated in detail about

• Control room operations
• Feeders, power transformers, bus bars
• Battery banks, power cables
• Protective and measuring equipment like current transformers, voltage transformers, circuit breakers, lightning arresters, isolators, etc.

The purpose of this industrial visit is to provide electrical engineering students with an excellent opportunity to learn more about and interact with the industrial environment. Its purpose is to enable the students to acquire practical knowledge.
We, along with the students, express our gratitude to the company for their permission and support to make our visit a success.