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T E C H N I C A L E D U C A T I O N C O M M U N I C A T I O N
Journal No. 105 May 2016
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Chairman: Ronnie Branders; Dep/Chair: Robert Mpai;
Treasurer: David Kleinhans; Secretary: Ms Bonnie Peden; Exco: Willem du Toit; Peter Murray; Bruno
Isler; Eugene Fereira; Clifford Kleinhans; Mickey Martin;
DOYENS OF THE LIFT INDUSTRY: Buddie Ceronie (2004)†; Schalk v/d Merwe (2005)†; Dr Theo
Kleinhans (2006 & 2011); Willem du Toit (2008 & 2015); Bruno Isler (2009); Alfie da Silva (2010);
Manny Perreira (2010); Peter Murray (2012); Sanjeev Singh (2013); Rodney Coetzee (Posthumous
2014); Billy Clifton (2014);
CURRENT & PAST CHAIRMEN: Steve Le Roux (1995-7)(†); Dr Theo Kleinhans (1997-2003); Ben
Peyper (2003-6)(†); Sanjeev Singh (2006-2015); Ronnie Branders;
INDEX
April LIASA General Meeting
Keimoes Solar Thermal Power Plant
Coal-fired vs Natural Thermal Power Stations
General RLI Inspection Portfolios
TUT RLI Courses 2016 LIASA & LIRC Meetings 2016 Overseas Lift Accidents
SANS 10360 Replaced with SANS 53015 LIASA ‘Dangerous Situation’ Web LIASA - We are on the Web LIASA Contact Details Educom Communications ...
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NEW SOLAR-STEAM POWER GENERATION
ESTABLISHED JANUARY 2003
This solar–heated thermal steam-generation plant at Keimoes in the Northern Cape, houses two rack & pinion lifts and a standard 8-person lift of approximately 200m travel. The rack & pinion lifts are 1 tonnes at two stops, whilst the passenger lift is a 6-stop unit at 630kg, since it services the various control levels inside the stack-tower. (Photo sent in by Piet Smit of Cape Town) Continued on Page 3 >
This solar-thermal steam-powered
52MVA generation plant is in an ad-
vanced stage of commissioning. 4128 mir-
rors of approximately 3m by 5m dimen-
sion, will eventually all be adjusted to
shine directly onto the three magnifiers
situated south, east and west. Once opti-
mally adjusted they will be controlled
electronically to maintain 10-10ths sun-
beams through the magnifiers onto the
radiators.
Water from the adjacent Orange River is
pumped to the radiators through a 1,0m
pipe and returned to the steam-turbines at
the tower base in a 280mm heavily insu-
lated pipe of super-heated steam. The
power so generated is apparently sufficient
to meet the power energy needs of the
whole Upington metropolitan and sur-
rounding areas. Apparently two more solar
-thermal towers are in the pipeline.
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On Tuesday 12th April 28 LIASA members attended a very informative meeting at the Jeppe Quandam Conference Cen-tre, chaired by Ronnie Branders. Guest speaker was Mr Daniel Musiwalo Mawela, Faculty of Engineering lecturer from Tshwane University of Technology.
Daniel Mawela Pr Tech Eng, MBA (Unisa)
Daniel availed himself on assistance for any problem experi-enced with your SANAS application or review finding …
Phone: 012 - 382-5079 Telefax: 086 731 6746
E-mail: [email protected]
ECSA LIRC
Sanjeev Singh discussed the following important details ... RLI Applications: Applications appear consistently to
be received say 10-days before the next LIRC meeting date, instead of much earlier. Queries on incomplete data now pushes the application to the next meeting date! Please get your applications in ASAP & complete!
Referees’ validation: Referees are still not paying proper attention to data (details & dates) for the appli-cant that they are validating. LIRC now have to query this back with the referee, also pushing the application to the next meeting date. Please pay attention to detail and USE the guidelines available with each applica-tion!
Streamlining Application Process: ECSA are pres-ently streamlining the application process for the differ-ent cadres. Sanjeev has volunteered to chair the sub-committee for the RLI application, to make it more user-friendly
ECSA CPD: Effectively every registration gets reviewed every 5 years, so ensure that your CPD claimed points and reports are up to date. You need 25 points on a 60-month rolling cycle - So if you only managed 3 this year, make up with 8 for next year - Don’t leave it till it’s too
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late and your registration beomes invalidated or even re-scinded!
Mandatory Renewal: Sanjeev stated that it may become mandatory to renew your registration every 5 years. Promi-nence is now being given to attending CPD training courses and Industry conferences.
Framework for 3rd-Party Service Providers: This framework is in the course of implementation and will form part of the accreditation process (possibly for SANAS). A LIASA Task Team of Sanjeev, Mickey Martin and Clifford Kleinhans was proposed. With approximately 182 RLI’s registered with ECSA, we possibly need a ‘Candidate’ cadre for prospective future RLI’s. (Will keep you posted)
SABS LIFT STANDARDS Peter Murray expounded on Bruno Isler’s leadership since 2002 at SABS, where since that year’s Tokyo Conference, Bruno has attended every ensuing year. Peter Continued …
Next SABS Meeting: Please diarise 5th October 2016 and make every effort to attend at SABS.
SABS Government-Controlled: Peter explained that SABS was endeavouring to gain stand-alone autonomy in moving away from Government control. Since the Works Committees are mostly Industry Volunteers, they know what is best for that Industry, such as the RSA Lift Industry whom in any case work very closely with the International European Committee and Codes of Practice.
National Affirmation: Peter inquired as to whether the Lift Industry knew that all ‘National Standards’ have to be re-affirmed every year as being the current standard.
SANAS - ACCREDITED AIA’s
SANAS Representation: Eben Smit, Lead Assessor from SANAS, now endeavours to attend all the LIASA Meetings where we have the opportunity to hear first-hand what the latest scenario’s of assessment are. Currently there are 15 AIA’s accredited with 5 applications in the process of ac-creditation.
Annex ‘B’ Check-Lists: Discussion revolved around the check-lists used by the AIA’s in as much as them not being generic. Some appear to be over-comprehensive, with oth-ers perhaps only just sufficing. Eugene Ferreira took up the challenge to drive a sub-committee who would draw up such a ‘generic’ list following inputs from all concerned, which Satha Govendar had already started. It will be pre-sented at the next LIASA meeting.
Generic DoL Letter - Advice on Lifts Running with-out Valid Annex B’s: Sanjeev volunteered to draw up a generic advice letter to safeguard any AIA reporting to DoL on installations found with a valid Annex ‘B’ on inspection.
APRIL LIASA GENERAL METING …
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KEIMOES SOLAR-THERMAL POWER PLANT …
Thanks to David Kleinhans and Jannie de Waal for sending in these photos. The LH photo was taken approximately 6km away from the tower and gives an indication of its 200m height and strength of sun-light reflection. The bottom sur-rounding black section is part of the 4128 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto the magnifiers.
This area was selected geographically because it generally receives the longest daylight hours at the highest ambient temperature. Bringing into the equation the almost limitless supply of fresh water from the Orange river, makes this plant a very highly efficient ‘green power plant’. Regret-tably David and Jannie could not elicit any tech-nical data from the commissioning engineers, only being mandated to carry out the lift Annex ‘B’ inspections. In spite of its wide diameter, David stated the inner-tower temperature to al-most be unbearable.
Seen above left is the top of the tower, with large open voids, so one should not suffer from fear of heights. Seen cen-tre, is the rack & pinion steel tower that is only secured from one side, allowing ample car sway that curls your toe-nails when it starts up or stops. According to David the worst was the testing of the over-speed safeties. With no coun-terweight this was achieved through free-fall of the car, fortunately from inside the car. Seen right is the ground-floor entrance to the rack & pinion lift. Note the water ingress, which appears to be a constant problem.
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COAL-FIRED vs NATURAL THERMAL POWER STATIONS
Google advises that geothermal power stations are similar to other steam turbine thermal power stations in South Africa. The difference lies in the source required to heat the water into steam in order to drive the turbines …
Coal-Fired Power Stations: The approximate 18 coal-fired power stations in South Africa require to be close to an abundance of coal as well as sufficient water supply. Coal-fired boilers then heat the water, converting it into steam. The down-side is the CO² emissions into the atmosphere, with negative impact on the Ozone-layer … and therefore not green-friendly!
Geothermal Power Station: The new Keimoes thermal power station requires an abundance of water (next to the Orange) and an abundance of clear sunlight averaged throughout the year … therefore very green-friendly!
This implies that heat from a ‘fuel’ source other than fossil-fuel is required. Historically in geothermal's case from the earth's core. This ‘source’ allows water to be converted into steam which is then used to turn the prime-mover turbine connected to a generator, thereby producing electricity. The steam having done its work cools down and is then returned to the heat source - In the Keimoes plant a massive farm of reflecting mirrors.
Geothermal power Station in Iceland
Definition
Geothermal energy refers to the production of energy using the internal heat of the Earth’s crust. This heat comes from the radioactive decay of minerals and continual heat loss from the earth’s original formation. (see pictograph below)
Seen below left, the steam is generated from the geothermal heat from the bowels of the earth, with boreholes drilled between 4 and 14km to reach the lava-generated heat. This geothermal technology can however only be used in locations with spe-cific geologic conditions. For this reason the major regions of geothermal development are in the most volcanically and tectonically active regions of the world. For example, heat and power plants are found in Iceland, Indonesia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Califor-
nia, and Ecuador. In these regions, geothermal-heated water/
steam makes up a significant portion of the power and heating sectors - for example, over 90% of building heating and over 27% of electricity in Iceland is sourced from geothermal energy.
Thermal Power Stations in South Africa
Wikipedia advises that South Africa produces around 240,300 gigawatt-hours (865,000 TJ) electricity annually. Most of this electricity is consumed domestically, but around 12,000 gigawatt-hours are annually exported to Swaziland, Botswana, Mozam-bique, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Zibabwe and other Southern African Development Community countries participating in the Southern African Power Pool. South Africa supplements its electricity supply by importing around 9,000 GWh per year from the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric generation station in Mozam-bique via the 1,920 MW Cahora Bassa high-voltage direct cur-rent transmission system.
Most power stations in South Africa are owned and operated by Eskom. These plants account for 95% of all the electricity produced in South Africa and 45% of all electricity produced on the African continent. Surprisingly, electrical power is generated by several means or technologies as seen below ...
From these figures it must be obvi-ous that the latest solar-heated tech-nology at Keimoes is more green-friendly, cost-effective and above all sustainable ad infinitum.
If managed appropriately, the non-
coalfired power stations are a rene-
wable and sustainable form of ener
–gy because it produces electricity
using the natural heat from the
Earth, the sun’s rays, wind or water-
flow. These are all environmentally
friendly technology because they
produces little to no greenhouse gas
emissions.
Equally surprising from the above figures reflected in Wikipedia, are the number of official power stations generating electricity under the ESCOM umbrella …
Coal-Fired 18 plants
Gas-Turbine 7 plants
Hydro-electric 13 plants
Nuclear - Of course only Koeburg
Wind-turbines and solar-panel plants have no finite Wikipedia figures as there are so many currently under construction all around the country.
Coal 37,135
Gas turbine 2,779
Hydro 2,852
Nuclear 1,860
Wind 1,034
Solar PV 919
Solar CSP 200
Landfill gas 7.5
Imported Hydro 1,500
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GENERAL
FROM RLI INSPECTION PORTFOLIOS …
TO SERVICE … OR NOT TO SERVICE … THERE LIES THE RUB?
Replacement parts somehow never have the same fixing points, so they are installed and left to hang by their connection wires.
Some gear-cases seem to have an habitual oil leak - The trouble lies in it being evident if the serviceman did not clean up the
leakage last month … or the month before … as the dust signifies little or no house-keeping for a l-o-n-g time. If the control transformer burns out, leave it loose in the controller in case it burns out again … perhaps it’s then more quickly removable … but most certainly NOT what the Clients pay for!
FROM MY INSPECTION PORTFOLIO
Submitting photos such as for poor service and dangerous situations to Sanjeev for publishing on our LIASA website, has elicited the further need for a parallel portfolio of newsworthy photos and mini-articles, taken on our sojourns into the coun-try, that could be informative for our readers. Names and places of these scenarios can be left out to obviate any possible embarrassment, as the story and lesson is to be gleaned from the content of the photo and accompanying short explanation.
Please forward your contributions to Bonnie or Theo for illustration in future issues of Educom.
Eugene Ferreira addressing the LIASA meeting during
the discussion on a generic Annex ‘B’ checklist.
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LIASA General - Tuesday 12th April @ 09:00
LIASA General - Tuesday 7th June @ 09:00
LIASA General - Wed.day 10th August @ 09:00
LIASA AGM - Tuesday 11th October @ 09:00
All LIASA’s meetings will be held at the Jeppe Quon-dam Conference Centre. The ECSA LIRC meetings will generally be held the previous day at ECSA, of which due notice will be given. In view of the dimin-ishing Lift Inspector applications, specific dates have not been preset for LIRC for 2016. The writing is therefore on the wall to promote registration as Lift Inspectors amongst our lift fraternity colleagues.
Tentative course dates for this year are …
11 to 15th July, with the exam on 30th July
7 to 11 November with the exam on 26th November.
Please Note: It has taken some serious marketing in the past to get the minimum stipulated group of 15, otherwise the course would have been cancelled for that week. Application forms are now available for the July course from Antoinette or Mariska Swartz, who will distribute them on request to all relevant persons ... or obtain them from Bonnie. Apply now or loose out for 2016 ...
Contact E-mails:
[email protected] [email protected]
PLEASE MOTIVATE YOUR COLLEAGUES TO APPLY!
TUT RLI COURSES 2016 LIASA & LIRC COMMIT-
TEE MEETINGS 2016
OVERSEAS LIFT ACCIDENTS
Our old friend Geoff Hayward, Deputy Chairman of the UK’s Allianz Engineering Surveyors sent us their May journal issued to their surveyors. Remember that in the UK they are regarded as ‘engineering surveyors’ rather than lift inspectors, since they include hoists, cranes and other movable machinery under one registration cadre. They for example note the latest number of ‘surveyors’ that cover just the Zurich insurance inspections as 530, compared to our 182. Their May journal regrettably reports on several lift accidents …
Solihull’s Starbucks Coffee Shop
A woman has been injured after falling 7.6m down a lift shaft at the Starbucks coffee shop. Reported to be in her 20s, she broke her pelvis and legs on falling into the lift pit. She was rescued by firefighters as the lift callout technician appears to have taken too long to attend to the callout.
A spokesperson for the West Midlands Ambulance Service stated that ... “The woman wanted to use the lift, but when she (opened the door and) stepped into the lift shaft there was no lift there and she fell approximately 25ft to the bottom of the shaft. Am-bulance staff worked with the firefighters to extricate her from the confined space.”
The Chief Health and Safety Executive said it was a matter for the local authority Solihull Council, whom immediately sent a member of staff to the scene. Being investigated, further details are subjudice.
Luxury Cruise Ship Lift Fatality
“A worker was killed on Sunday after being crushed to death as he carried out maintenance on a lift on a luxury 855-foot cruise ship.
The terrifying footage (from the lobby security camera) shows the exterior of an elevator on the Carnival Ecstasy after it apparently crushed the service electrician to death. The man, named as Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, by Miami Dade police, is said to have been working alongside a colleague when something went catastrophically wrong. The cruise ship from Bermuda was on the final leg of its jour-ney when the accident happened on Sunday evening”.
Fatal You-Tube Screened Lift Accident
A third fatality reported in the journal, was leaked to You-Tube which actually shows the person stepping out of the lift when it takes off in the downward direction whilst he is still halfway through the entrance. The lobby security camera graphically show his last few seconds as the lift descends with open car and landing doors, crushing him to death.
These three accidents in little over a month bring home the fact of how dangerous lifts can be to both service providers and the public users, requiring every RLI to constantly be on his guard and taking a more stricter stance on his inspections.
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LIASA CONTACT DETAILS
Bonnie Peden - National Executive Secretary
Office: (011) 907-0133 - Telefax: (011) 907-0131
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website Address: www.iliasa.org.za
PO Box 531, Alberton, 1450
LIASA in 1995, to qualify for ECSA (Engineering Council) recognition as a ‘Voluntary Association’ (VA - Article 21 Association), formal Arti-cles of Association were required, along with a formalized membership struc-ture. These were drawn up by founder members Dr Theo Kleinhans and Steve le Roux. Steve was elected as Chairman of the National Executive Commit-tee in Gauteng, with Theo as Executive Secretary-Treasurer; Mike Russell as Regional Chairman Western Cape and Graham Mould as Regional Chair-man Eastern Cape. Natal and the Free State were vacant at that time.
The LIASA membership has regrettably reduced to 145 paid-up mem-bers, possibly due to the curtailing forces of the SANAS accreditation.
New LIASA membership cards have again been issued to all payed up members. Please check with Bonnie if you have not received your latest card, making sure that you are indeed paid up. Remember that proof has to be retained in case you are called on to present them to ECSA. Membership of LIASA ensures an ECSA subscription rebate more than equal to the LIASA subscription, being a motivator to engender or retain LIASA membership. □
EDUCOM COMMUNICATIONS
Educom’s contact logistics, where you speak to …
The Editor - Bonnie Peden
Office: (011) 907-0133
Telefax: (011) 907-0131
E-mail: [email protected]
PO Box 531, Alberton, 1450
Please forward us your newsworthy articles and photos for dis-
sémination to all our colleagues around the RSA.
Articles contributed to Educom are evaluated by ECSA as CPD, assisting you to achieve your minimum 5 points per year, avera-ged out over 5-year rolling periods. Remember that …
« Ignorance of FACT is NO excuse for any stated non-compliance »
« Liberty means responsibility -
That is why most men dread it »
George Bernard Shaw
We are on the Web - go to … www.iliasa.org.za
The web is maintained by LIASA Chairman Sanjeev Singh for the members’ benefit
SANS 10360 REPLACED
NEW ‘POOR SERVICE’ &
‘DANGEROUS SITUATION’ WEB
Immediate past LIASA chairman Sanjeev Singh originally
set up and now maintains our LIASA website as a free ser-
vice to our members.
We have for several years been discussing at the general
LIASA meetings, the need for a system to record through
examples of on-site photos where situations indicate an ab-
solute lack of service, possibly to the point of being danger-
ous. Articles by Ronnie Branders and Willem du Toit in the
December issue high-lighted this claimed poor service.
You are hereby requested to assist us by building up
such a LIASA web library by sending your photos di-
rect to Sanjeev at ... [email protected].
All submissions will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
We anticipate a short technical description with each photo
to highlight the suggested regulatory, standards or safety
non-compliance. Please treat this as serious, for we need
your inputs.
LIASA WEBSITE
The SANS 10360 standard for the mainte-nance and repair of electric and hydraulic lifts and escalators has been replaced by SANS 53015 with immediate effect. This communi-cation was gazetted through Government Notice No.R256 dated 16th March 2016 un-der the signature of Chief Inspector Tibor Szana. The schedule for the OHSAct (No.85 of 1993) Lift, Escalator and Passenger Con-veyor was amended to include this new stan-dard.
Specific mention is made in the notice of in-corporation into the September 2010 LEPC Regulations.
