[ L’assainissement des réseaux électriques basse tension de la ville de Kolwezi: Moteur de stabilité de l’énergie électrique basse tension dans la ville de Kolwezi ]
Volume 40, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 563–567
Daniel Kasongo Monga Muswa1 and Jean De Dieu Kadiata2
1 Institut Supérieur des Techniques Appliquées de Kolwezi, Section Electricité industrielle, RD Congo
2 Institut Supérieur des Techniques Appliquées de Kolwezi, Section Electricité industrielle, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
If there’s one area where rigor and caution are essential, it’s electrical installation. Electrical installations age. On the one hand, of course, because all materials age, depending on how they are used. On the other hand, the uses to which electricity is put have developed considerably, and many old installations were not designed for these multiple and different uses. Today, there are several dwellings (houses, stores, kiosks), and some houses have been demolished to make way for large low-cost buildings or even hotels on the same plots of land once occupied by a single house. This increases the current demand on a mother cable originally designed for a single house. In addition to this situation, the exodus from the province of Lualaba, and in particular the town of Kolwezi, is currently registering a veritable explosion in its working population. This situation is becoming even more acute in the town of Kolwezi, where the demand for electrical energy has grown exponentially. Today, not only are we witnessing power cuts, but also recurrent fires in homes and even in electrical installations, a source of tension caused by electrical fires. To remedy this situation, two hypotheses have been put forward: The first is to rehabilitate the low-voltage power grid, and the second is to increase the power available to Kolwezi’s low-voltage grid (construction of new power injection points). Both hypotheses required first determining the current energy demand of the city of Kolwezi, which today has risen from 7MW to 25MW, and inventorying all the plots where the installed electrical power has been drastically increased. The conclusion is that both hypotheses have been retained to finally achieve stability in the supply of electrical energy.
Author Keywords: Clean-up of electricity networks, stability of electricity supply.
Volume 40, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 563–567
Daniel Kasongo Monga Muswa1 and Jean De Dieu Kadiata2
1 Institut Supérieur des Techniques Appliquées de Kolwezi, Section Electricité industrielle, RD Congo
2 Institut Supérieur des Techniques Appliquées de Kolwezi, Section Electricité industrielle, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
If there’s one area where rigor and caution are essential, it’s electrical installation. Electrical installations age. On the one hand, of course, because all materials age, depending on how they are used. On the other hand, the uses to which electricity is put have developed considerably, and many old installations were not designed for these multiple and different uses. Today, there are several dwellings (houses, stores, kiosks), and some houses have been demolished to make way for large low-cost buildings or even hotels on the same plots of land once occupied by a single house. This increases the current demand on a mother cable originally designed for a single house. In addition to this situation, the exodus from the province of Lualaba, and in particular the town of Kolwezi, is currently registering a veritable explosion in its working population. This situation is becoming even more acute in the town of Kolwezi, where the demand for electrical energy has grown exponentially. Today, not only are we witnessing power cuts, but also recurrent fires in homes and even in electrical installations, a source of tension caused by electrical fires. To remedy this situation, two hypotheses have been put forward: The first is to rehabilitate the low-voltage power grid, and the second is to increase the power available to Kolwezi’s low-voltage grid (construction of new power injection points). Both hypotheses required first determining the current energy demand of the city of Kolwezi, which today has risen from 7MW to 25MW, and inventorying all the plots where the installed electrical power has been drastically increased. The conclusion is that both hypotheses have been retained to finally achieve stability in the supply of electrical energy.
Author Keywords: Clean-up of electricity networks, stability of electricity supply.
Abstract: (french)
S’il est un domaine où la rigueur et la prudence s’imposent c’est bien celui de l’installation électrique. Les installations électriques vieillissent. Naturellement d’une part car tous les matériaux vieillissent, en fonction de leur utilisation et d’autre part les usages de l’électricité se sont beaucoup développés et nombre d’installations anciennes n’ont pas été conçues pour ces multiples et différents usages. En effet on retrouve aujourd’hui plusieurs habitations (maisons, boutiques kiosques) et certaines maisons sont détruites au profit des grandes bâtisses de bons marchés voire des hôtels dans les mêmes parcelles jadis occupées par une et une seule maison; ce qui accroit l’appel de courant pour un câble mère au départ dimensionné pour une seule maison. À côté de cette situation, il faut signaler l’exode que connait actuellement la province du Lualaba, et singulièrement la ville de Kolwezi, qui, à ce jour, enregistre une véritable explosion de sa population active. Cette situation devient accentuée dans la ville de Kolwezi dans laquelle la demande en énergie électrique a pris une allure exponentielle. Aujourd’hui on assiste non pas seulement aux délestages électriques mais aussi aux incendies récurrents des maisons d’habitation voire des installations électriques source de tension causée par les feux d’origine électriques. Pour remédier à cette situation deux hypothèses ont été avancées: La première est celle qui prône l’assainissement du réseau électrique basse tension et la deuxième est celle qui voudrait l’augmentation de la puissance disponible pour le réseau basse tension de la ville de Kolwezi. (Construction de nouveaux points d’injection d’énergies électrique). Les deux hypothèses ont nécessité d’abord la détermination de la demande actuelle de l’Energie de la ville de Kolwezi, aujourd’hui qui est passée de 7MW à 25MW et l’inventaire de toutes les parcelles ou la puissance électrique installée a été drastique augmentée. La conclusion est les deux hypothèses a été retenues pour enfin arriver à la stabilité de la fourniture de l’énergie électrique.
Author Keywords: Assainissement des réseaux électriques, stabilité de l’Energie électrique.
How to Cite this Article
Daniel Kasongo Monga Muswa and Jean De Dieu Kadiata, “Rehabilitation of low-voltage electrical networks in the city of Kolwezi: Low-voltage electrical energy stability engine in the city of Kolwezi,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 563–567, August 2023.
