{"id":5470,"date":"2023-03-07T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/rehabilitation-centrale-hydroelectrique-de-bendera\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:52:04","slug":"rehabilitation-bendera-hydroelectric-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/rehabilitation-bendera-hydroelectric-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitation of the Bendera hydroelectric plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5443 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220703_082348-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Conduite forc\u00e9e de la centrale de Bendera dans le Tanganyika\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220703_082348-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220703_082348-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220703_082348-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220703_082348-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220703_082348-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>With its expertise in the recommissioning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/rehabilitation-centrale-sanga-phase-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanga hydroelectric power plant<\/a>, the Electricity Division of the Forrest Group has been entrusted with the rehabilitation, modernization and reliability of the equipment at the Bendera power plant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5444 alignright\" src=\"\/content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220303_102232-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"Bassin Bendera\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220303_102232-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220303_102232-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220303_102232-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220303_102232-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220303_102232-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This hydroelectric plant, located in Tanganyika, has an installed capacity of 17.2 MW divided into two groups: group 1 and group 2. It supplies electricity to some 600,000 inhabitants of the city of Kalemie as well as households around Bendera.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5450\" src=\"\/content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Roue-Pelton-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"Roue Pelton \u00e0 la centrale de Bendera\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Roue-Pelton-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Roue-Pelton-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Roue-Pelton.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>AEMI carried out the dismantling and repair of the generator of the 1st group. After the repair, the Stator and Rotor of the alternator underwent several electrical tests to ensure its condition before returning to service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5446\" src=\"\/content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bendera-fleuve-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Centrale hydro\u00e9lectrique de Bendera sur la rivi\u00e8re Kyimbi\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bendera-fleuve-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bendera-fleuve-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bendera-fleuve-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bendera-fleuve-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bendera-fleuve-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The Pelton wheel has been reconditioned in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/business\/ateliers-electro-maintenance-industriels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AEMI workshops<\/a> in Likasi.<\/p>\n<p>The teams cleaned the penstocks, replaced the control cabinets in the control room, and inspected the railway track for the rehabilitation of the funicular to allow operators quick access to the facilities of the upstream works.<\/p>\n<p>A high-precision project, made even more complex by the site&#8217;s lack of accessibility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5459 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Equipe-rehabilitation-bendera.jpg\" alt=\"Equipe AEMI BEndera\" width=\"863\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Equipe-rehabilitation-bendera.jpg 863w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Equipe-rehabilitation-bendera-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Equipe-rehabilitation-bendera-768x373.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its expertise in the recommissioning of the Sanga hydroelectric power plant, the Electricity Division of the Forrest Group has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[260,445,452,451,453,449,450],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electricity","tag-aemi-en","tag-bendera-en","tag-bendera-hydroelectric","tag-bendera-hydroelectric-plant","tag-hydroelectric","tag-kalemie-en","tag-tanganyika-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrestgroup.lademo.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}