Electricity Rehabilitation

Maintenance of power plants in Iraq is a long and expensive process. Due to the reliance on international companies, sending an engineer to a war-torn country such as Iraq is expensive, and the application process also takes time. Thus, diagnosing the problem and deciding whether a new part should be shipped takes longer than it should, and shipping a new part increases the maintenance time even more. This means there is a serious lack of immediate support and maintenance for power plants there. To solve this problem, Raban Al-Safina has initiated a program to establish a maintenance workshop, which will save the time to the benefit of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity (MOE), also saving effort and funds.

The workshop will be located in Awaireej with license to provide maintenance and support to essential equipment and systems in power plants. This includes turbines maintenance as well as production, assembly and repair of some of the most essential equipment in a power plant. With workshops located in Iraq, the maintenance time will be reduced; shipping times and costs will be eliminated.

This will make Iraq the 4^th Arab country to have the technology for turbine maintenance, so the workshop in Awaireej could realistically provide maintenance to power plants for other countries in the region.

Partnering with Pentol, Raban Al-Safina provides fuel-improvement technology for power plants. This advanced technology improves the fuel by preventing residues formed inside the boilers from mixing with the output fuel. This has the added advantages of improving efficiency during work hours, increasing yield, reducing maintenance time and also adds to the lifetime of the power plant.

The new fuel-improvement technology reduces the pollution caused by the power plant, leading to a cleaner environment in power plant locations, which means better working conditions for employees. Furthermore, it reduces the amount of fuel required to produce the same amount of power by between 1 and 6%, increasing efficiency and, ultimately, saving money. This technology has been deployed in a number of countries worldwide, including Kuwait, Lebanon and South Korea and is in wide use.

The new technology was tested at the 6^th unit of Al-Durra power plant, located in Baghdad, and when comparing between the control and improved fuel, the difference was prominent. Subsequently, MOE signed a contract with Raban Al-Safina to bring this technology to Wasit power plant. Raban Al-Safina expect other power plants to soon follow suit to improve and increase their yield.

Looking to the future, Raban Al-Safina is in talks with Pentol to establish a factory to manufacture the fuel-improvement technology locally.