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The experience I had dealing with power system commissioning and operational problems during my early career in Canada came in very handy in Papua New Guinea. The techniques that I had learned and applied seemed to be in short supply in PNG, so they were soon put to good use as I tried to educate the Technicians who were working for me. Over the course of my first two years in the country a lot of problems were found and corrected.
Near the end of my 3-year contract job tour of duty, a consulting firm was brought in from overseas to assess the state of the power system and I ended up escorting them around the country showing them the present status. One of these consultants took this photo while we were in Madang, as a couple of the local guys at the diesel station asked me to help them out with a problem. In the end, the consultants gave us a clean bill of health, so I left PNG a happy man when I decided not to renew my contract a few months later! After all that travelling and humidity, maybe those Canadian winters were not so bad after all!
Updated Sep 8, 2005
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This is about as close as I got to sight-seeing in Madang - standing on the harbourfront behind the local diesel power station! Still, it was a pleasant scene with one of the many small off-shore islands visible in the distance and a banana tree to keep me company.
With both a 66,000 volt transmission terminal delivering hydro power from the central mountain ranges and a diesel power station for back-up in case of transmission problems, I had lots of things to keep me busy in Madang. On this particular trip, I was putting the finishing touches on two very big 3,300 kW Toshiba diesel generators that had been installed. One of the final tests was to make sure that their speed governors (something like an automobile 'cruise control') could hold the desired 50 Hz speed when additional customer load came on the system. This was easy enough to do thanks to the large wood chip mill located in Madang. As they fed another huge log from the rain forest into their electric motor-driven mechanical chippers we could see the frequency start to drop but could also hear the diesel grunt as it bore down to produce more power! Looked like things were working OK.
Updated Sep 7, 2005
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