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Metro De Valencia, Venezuela
Antagrade Electrical Ltd has been engaged by Siemens AG to provide expertise in the commissioning of substations during
the construction of the new Metro de Valencia in Venezuela.
Together with their professional project management skills, Antagrade’s engineers are applying their electrical distribution and infrastructure expertise to support the integration of the new 750 V DC transit system. Engineering services are being applied to the traction substation power conversion equipment and auxiliary control and protection systems.
Antagrade are playing a key role in helping to coordinate the design and installation works, developing test plans and carrying out commissioning testing for all the major components including high voltage switchboards, traction transformers, rectifiers, DC circuit breakers and their interfaces to the SCADA and control equipment.
Live testing is scheduled to include section proving, operation of the system’s standby generators and short circuit testing to demonstrate capability under fault conditions.
The 6.3km Line 1 has seven stations and an initial capacity of 8 000 passengers per hour per direction with trains planned to run
every 4 minutes. Regular service is scheduled to commence in March 2007.
