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Cummins powers Dubai airport wing

01 November 2006

Cummins Power Generation (CPG) has completed a prestigious contract to provide back-up power for the new Royal Air Wing of Dubai International Airport that is currently under construction.

The new wing is being constructed as part of the airport’s $2.5 billion expansion and is dedicated to the Dubai Royal Family and their VIP visitors.
The terminal will handle some of the world’s largest aircraft, including the Airbus A380 superjumbo.
“The client needed to engage a power supplier that could guarantee that in the event of a power failure, electricity would be restored to the site within 10 seconds,” said a Cummins spokesman.
Cummins Middle East, located in Dubai, was awarded the contract by Balfour Kilpatrick, a large multi-national construction contractor.
Cummins was initially chosen after having demonstrated the ability to meet all the performance requirements, including low noise levels during operation and integrating with the client’s building management system.
Cummins Middle East’s scope in this project included the design (installation drawings, electrical schematics including interface drawings to customer medium voltage switchgear) supply, supervision of installation, testing and on-site training for the project. The installation included three units of 2250 kVa for standby applications, DMC 200 (digital master controls) and additionally a neutral earthing board and resistor.
John Dorman, general manager, Middle East and Africa said: “The generators were tested at the site using reactive load banks and included parallel operation and functional tests to verify the response time of the gensets’ digital controls.
“Cummins Middle East’s engineering team successfully completed the commissioning and testing of the gensets and controls in late 2005 and has now turned the units over to the client,” he said.