Engineering Students Industrial Visit to NOMAC Power Plant, Ibri on 13 February 2020

A group of 18 Second Semester Bachelor students and two electrical engineering faculties (Mr Chandra Sekhara B.L and Mr Reddy Ganesh) of Ibri College of Technology, Ibri, visited the NOMAC Power Pant which is located in Ibri, on Thursday, 13 February 2020. The main aim of the industrial visit was to provide exposure to students about the practical working environment.

Mr Anwar Alzahli, Operation Manager, and his team received and welcomed the visitors, explained guided safety measures and rules followed in the plant and also gave a detailed plant operation from mechanical turbines to electrical grid connection. 

The plant uses four gas turbines each capacity of 235 Megawatts and two steam turbines, each generating 283 Megawatts of mechanical power. These turbines are coupled to generators in order to generate electrical power. The steam turbine coupled to a generator produces 20KV and a gas turbine coupled generator produces 21KV voltage. The generated electrical power of all these generators are stepped up to grid voltage and are connected to the grid through step-up transformers. All the control operations of the plant are monitored through SCADA. The plant uses an automatic control system that has a facility that controls inputs and is automatically adjusted, based on demand on the system within its capacity.   

The company has accepted a contract to start a solar power plant over an area of 6 square kilometres. The team members explained the protective schemes used for protection of alternators and transformers.

During the session, the students interacted with all team members of the company very effectively, particularly on the generation of power, alternator, turbine working, protection, control of power supplied to grid. All the students expressed their thanks to the officials of the company for the opportunity given. This visit was highly useful for the students to enhance their knowledge in areas such as Electrical Machines and its control, Power Generation, Protection and Grid connection and its control.