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DEBREMARKOS UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING

Internship report on D/markos substation

 1.Introduction
 In Ethiopia Electric power was introduced during the

regime of Minilik in 19th century.to transmit those electric

power substations are mandatory. Now a day there are

many substations in Ethiopia, from those debre markos

substation is one. Debre Markos sub-station was

established in March, 3, 1976 E.C in the north western

region of Ethiopia.
 2. Main sources and end users of
debremarkos substation
 the substation gives power for;
 The substation receives power
from • Finoteselam and bichena substation 66kv

• Bahirdar 400kv • Rob gebya and Debre Markos town 15kv

•  DMU and part of Debre Markos 15kv
• Mota 230 kv
•  Lumame and amanuel 15kv
• fincha 230 kv
• Waber.angib,mslewash and Gofchima 33Kv

• sululta1 400kv
Single line diagram of Debre Markos Substation
 3.OVERALL INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

 General objective
• The aim of four months internship program is to create matured or skilled person in the world.

 Specific objectives
• In four month internship program, the detail objectives are;
 To improve their practical, theoretical and interpersonal communication skills

 To improve leader ship skills,

 To develop understanding about work ethics, related issues and responsibility

 To determine futurity field work
4.Major components and their own explanations
 of the substation
• There are so many electrical equipment’s available in debremarkos substation. 

Some of those equipment's are:

 Electrical bus bar

 Transformers

 Bus coupler

 Shunt reactor

 Circuit breaker

 Diconnector

 phantographs ETC………………….
 Bus bars $ phantographs

 The incoming and out going lines in a

sub-station are connected to the bus-
bars.but the two lines must be
operating at the same voltage level.

Pantographs are used

 To open and close in vertical plane.

• To transmit power without

disconnecting the supply.

• To be free in the case of maintenance

 Bus coupler
• a device which is used to couple one
bus to the other without any
interruption in power supply and
without creating hazardous arcs.

• Mainly bus coupler is applicable for

balancing:-
 Frequency

 Voltage

 Phase angle

 Current
 Shunt reactor
• Shunt Reactors are Inductive
device commonly used in HV
and EHV Systems for limiting
EHV into the normal voltage.
 Disconnector $ circuit breaker
• disconnector or isolator switch is used to
make sure that an electrical circuit can be
completely de-energized for service or
maintenance.

• Circuit breaker is a mechanical switching

device capable of making, carrying and
breaking currents under normal and
abnormal circuit conditions.
 Transformers
 Transformers found in d/markos
substation are:

• Auto transformer

• Power transformer

• Earthing transformer

• Instrument transformers
 THE OVERALL INTERNSHIP BENEFITS

 There were lots of benefits that we gained from our internship. We

mentioned the benefits in terms of:-
• Practical skills

• Theoretical knowledge

• Interpersonal communication skills

• Team playing skills

• Work ethics related issues

• Entrepreneurship skills
 Conclusion and Recommendation

Conclusion

• Debre Markos substation is the first and modern substation among the

north western region substation and it receives a high power from Bahr

Dar and sululta (i.e. 400KV) and Motta and Fincha (i.e.230Kv) and also

distributes 66Kv to Bichena and Finote selam and 15Kv Debermarkos and

DMU and also around Debremarkos.

 Recommendation
• In Debre Markos substation there are different useless equipment and

bushings, these are facilitate danger of fire. So the substation operator must

be clean that.

• The SCADA system is applicable for only 400kv in coming line, so it is

better to use this SCADA system for all systems.

• The alarming system is applicable for only 33kv out coming line, so it is

better to use this alarming for all systems.