KALI GANDAKI: NEPAL HYDRO & ELECTRIC LIMITED

Kali Gandaki

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The Kali Gandaki "A" HEP is the largest hydropower project in Nepal. As such it gave us the opportunity to have first hand experience on a larger project than had previously been available. We worked as subcontractor to the international companies who undertook the main contracts of the project.

Project Specification

Type of project	Construction of plant for generation of electricity
Specification	144 MW from 3 Francis turbines.
Dates of NHE work	November 1997 to April 2002

Scope of NHE work and Customer details

Area of work	Detail	NHE Customer
Sluiceway steel liners.	Fabrication of sluiceway steel liners and associated embedded parts (Noell). Extension of sluiceway liners and installation of sluiceway liners	Impregilo SpA, ( Italy)
Gates, stoplogs, trashracks.	Manufacture of first stage embedded parts	DSD - Noell, ( Germany)
Draft tubes.	Manufacture of draft tube foundation materials and site installation of draft tubes	Toshiba Corp. / Mitsui and Co. (Japan)
Girder bridge.	Manufacture of steel girder bridge to go over intake area	Impregilo SpA, ( Italy)
15 MVA, 132kV Lekhnath substation.	Installation of equipment and assistance in testing and commissioning	Tata Projects Ltd. (India)
Electrical equipment.	Manpower supply and administration for erection and commissioning of all electrical equipment including; control system, switchgear, GIS, alternators	Comelex/Alstom Power (France)

Photo gallery


Installation of 1 of 3 generators of each 48MW.	Trial assembly of 2 of 13 sluiceway liners in our workshop.	Preparation of generator rotor assembly

Assembly of rotor for 48MW generator	Welding work on a sluiceway liner assembly.	Winding assembly of 48MW generator stator.

Overview of completed substation at Lekhnath Marg, Pokhara.	Site assembly welding of 1 of 3 draft tubes.	End connections of generator stator

132 GIS installation	Main cooling water pumping & filtration system	Transformer Erection