Bell Bay Aluminium starts installing 300 tonne transformer supplied by Wilson Transformer Company

Examiner reported that in December 2017 Bell Bay Aluminium awarded Victorian-based Wilson Transformer Company the contract to manufacture and deliver the giant transformer it needed for its smelter power project. General manager Kevin Taylor said that Once completed by Wilson Transformer Company, the transformer left the Post of Hastings, in Victoria, on March 22 and arrived at Bell Bay on Sunday. He added that "This power transformer will replace a 52-year-old asset. It is a complex project due to the size of the transformer and the logistics of installation in our switchyard.”

The smelter power project is valued at about USD 6.5 million, with about USD 1.5 million of that figure to be spent with Tasmanian contractors and suppliers on installation.

The 168MVA 220/40/11kV power transformer will convert 220,000 volts received by Bell Bay Aluminium from the Tasmanian transmission system to 33,000 volts as an input to the smelter's rectifiers which, in turn, provide direct current power to the potlines.

Bell Bay Aluminium's operation to install and prepare the transformer for use in the smelter switchyard will take almost eight weeks.

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