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In a specialised application on a coal mine, Trafo Power Solutions recently supplied a dry-type transformer mounted on a mobile skid.

Dry-type transformer specialist Trafo Power Solutions has delivered transformers and other electrical upgrades for a global beer maker’s expanded facility in Gauteng. In addition to supplying three transformers, the company interfaced closely with the customer’s Europe-based engineering team as well as with local electrical contractors and consultants.

Trafo Power Solutions, experts in dry-type transformers, has recently completed a contract as part of a significant upgrade at a Mpumalanga coal mine.

The uptake of dry-type transformers in South Africa is now well beyond ‘niche’ applications, with local specialist Trafo Power Solutions installing a range of sizes across various sectors.

Dry-type transformer specialist Trafo Power Solutions supplied four purpose-designed units to Wits as part of the institution’s electrical infrastructure upgrades on both its Braamfontein and Parktown campuses. The units are safer and more environmentally-friendly due to the absence of oil in the system.

Data centres are energy hungry beasts that operate with a high power demand, and it is important that the most appropriate transformers with the requisite

Dry-type transformer specialist Trafo Power Solutions took just five weeks to design, build and deliver a non-standard cast-resin replacement transformer to a mining company in KZN. It is not uncommon for transformer replacements of this scale to take anything from 12 to 14 weeks, so the rapid turnaround by Trafo Power Solutions was highly valued by the customer.

Four dry-type transformers from Trafo Power Solutions have been proving their worth on a mobile process plant on a Sierra Leone mine since last year; so successful have they been that the customer has ordered six more for its recent Phase Two upgrade.

As electricity utilities and users worldwide look to become more safety conscious and efficient in their use of electrical energy, it is important to leverage the improvements that have been made in the design of transformers.