Himoinsa gensets used at Casablanca Finance Centre
Specially adapted generators from Spanish company ensure 1.3MW of stand-by power for project
Two Himoinsa HDW-750 T5 generator sets will guarantee the supply of electricity to the 26-storey Casablanca Finance Centre (CFC) in Morocco, the first building in the city’s new financial district.
The tower will house the offices and headquarters of banks and financial institutions for whom any manner of power cut could entail losses of millions. Himoinsa said that to prevent this from happening in the event of a network failure, both generator sets will start working in parallel and will be able to supply, depending on the demand, up to 1.3MW of stand-by power.
A statement from the Spanish portable power giant said Himoinsa’s engineering team has redesigned the generators’ standard canopy in order to adapt it to the rather small room in which they will be housed. As the height of the room precluded a high-level air outlet, the exhaust system has been changed ad hoc to expel the gases and the hot air from the radiator from the front.
Himoinsa added that its ability to adapt the design and manufacture of its gensets has been fundamental in the project’s success. According to Oger International’s Redouane Mouzani, the project’s head of engineering, the Spanish manufacturer was “the only company able to come up with a technical engineering solution adapted to the limitations of the room in the installation”.
“We chose Himoinsa because of their flexibility in designing and manufacturing of the gensets, and because their engineering team works so quickly.” Mouzani added.
According to Himoinsa’s statement, Karim Housni Alaoui, project head for CEGELEC, the company in charge of the CFC tower project, said that one of the highest allocations in their budget was for the purchase of generator sets.
“We had to be sure we were choosing the best generator for us and for our client. We chose Himoinsa because they guaranteed an excellent after-sales service, a high availability of replacement parts, a quality product and because of how they quickly resolved the engineering challenges that the project presented.”
The project has been undertaken through Morenergy for Africa, Himoinsa’s distributor in Morocco, and the generator sets incorporate a DS8610 control unit that allows them to work in parallel. Also, to comply with the French NFE37312_61940 standard, an additional control unit has been included so that, in the event of a failure in the main control unit, at least one of the generators will keep running, said the manufacturer.
