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Technical Tours |
| Full meeting registration required to attend technical tours. Innovative and informative technical tours including: |
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Thursday, July 17 8:00am - 4:30pm
$65 US
 The Niagara River is one of the world's greatest sources of hydroelectric power. The beauty of its wild descent from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario attracts millions of visitors each year. During its short course (56 km), the river drops 99 metres, with much of the spectacular plunge concentrated in a 13 km stretch of waterfalls and rapids.
Water was first diverted from the Canadian side of the Niagara River for generating electricity in 1893. A small 2,200 kilowatt plant was built just above the Horseshoe Falls to power an electric railway between the communities of Queenston and Chippawa.
Today the churning river provides the driving force for almost 2 million kilowatts of electricity from a number of power plants on the Canadian side. The three largest are Sir Adam Beck Niagara Generating Station Nos. 1 and 2 and the nearby pumping-generating station.
On the American side of the border, down river from the Falls, the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant and the Lewiston Pump Generating Plant, together generate more than 2.4 million kilowatts of electricity, enough to power 24 million 100-watt lightbulbs
Since 1958, Sir Adam Beck Generating Station No.2 has been Ontario Power Generation's largest and one of its most reliable hydroelectric facilities. Guided tours will give you a glimpse into the history of the region's power development and will reveal the unique ways the natural splendor of Niagara and hydroelectric generation have existed in harmony.
Transportation is being combined with a companion tour of Niagara Falls (see companion program).
www.infoniagara.com
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Tuesday, July 15 2:30pm - 5:00pm
$25 US
Skydome Stadium Tour
 The first and only stadium to have a fully retractable roof.
Weighing over 11,000 tons (more than the weight of over 3,700 automobiles) and spanning 8 acres, rising 282 feet, this four panel wonder was designed using orange peels as prototypes… talk about transforming leading edge thinking into practical solutions!
www.skydome.com
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Steam Whistle Brewery
The building is located in the heart of Toronto, south of the CN tower and Skydome. Constructed in 1929, The Roundhouse functioned as a Canadian Pacific Rail repair facility. The Roundhouse has been designated a National Historic site as an "architecturally and historically important surviving reminder of steam technology and the role of rail transportation in the city of Toronto.
Come and take the opportunity to see the magic of the brewhouse. It employes the traditional 'decoction' method of brewing. Steam Whistle Brewery is one of the only microbreweries in Canada. You will be walked through all the steps of beer making; Mash Tun, where the heated crystal springs water is combined with malted barley to create the mash. Then the mash is transferred to the Lauter Tun, where it is sprayed (sparged) with hot water allowing the barley husks to form a natural filter bed at the base of the tank. At the end of the hop process, we enter the whirlpool from there to primary and then secondary fermenting stages.
Once you have mastered the art of brewmaster the tour is completed with the bottling and packaging of the beer....and the opportunity for a tasting or two!
www.steamwhistle.ca
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Tour 1:
Tuesday, July 15 9:00am - 12:00pm
$25 US
Coil Division:
Product Breadth - Dry Type Air Core Reactors (Inductors) for all utility and industrial applications. Trench reactor applications have grwon from small, distribution class, current-limiting reactors to complex EHV applied reactors surpassing 300MVA per coil. The facility exhibits a unique, custome design approach, along with fully integrated engineering and manufacturing capabilities that has enabled Trench to become the technical leader for high voltage inductors worldwide.
Instrument Transformer Division:
Product Breadth - A diversified range of Instrument Transformers that are installed on 69-800kV electrical systems. Instrument Transformers include: current transformers 72.5kV through 800kV and pimary currents to 5000A; inductive and capacitive voltage transformers 72.5kV through 800kV; and combined instrument trnasformers 72.5kV through 800kV with rated primary currents up to 4000A.
Tour 2:
Wednesday, July 16 8:00am - 12:00pm
$25 US
Bushing Division and Vicinity Wind Turbine Tour:
Product Breadth - Trench Limited is one of the largest independent manufacturers of bushings in the world. We design and mnufacturer high voltage bushings for all applications including bushings for transformers, breakers, generators, gas-insulated substations, railway power distribution along with special applications to meet our customer needs. This new facility allows for the manufacturing of oil and air bushings from 25kV through 500kV.
www.trenchgroup.com
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Monday, July 14 1:00pm - 4:00pm
$25 US
Kinectrics, formerly a division of Ontario Hydro, with over 85 years of experience solving the most advanced technical challenges of a major electric utility, we know how technology affects performance, the environment, safety and the economics of today's energy industry. Based in Toronto, with over 300 employees, we apply our expertise to generation, transmission, distribution and industrial energy services.
| The tour will consist of the following labs: |
| High Voltage Lab |
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- lightning arc tests |
| High Current Lab |
- short circuit tests |
| Analytical Lab |
- extensive laboratory testing services |
| Equipment Qualifications Lab |
- commercial grade item dedication |
| Mechanical Lab |
- span room |
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| Duration: 2 hours |
www.kinectrics.com |
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Wednesday, July 16 2:30pm - 5:00pm
$25 US
This tour will provide a close-up view of the Toronto Hydro Power System Control Centre. Toronto Hydro is Canada's largest electricity distribution utility, formed from the six municipal utilities in the Greater Toronto Area in 1999 as part of the legislated municipal amalgamation. The recently completed control centre brings together six operating rooms and six technologies into one operating theatre.
Delivering electricity to a broadly diversified, economically robust customer base of approximately 670,000 residential, commercial and industrial consumers, with a system peak load of 5,000 MW. The Toronto Hydro distribution system is also very diverse and includes an interconnected secondary network system representing about 15% of the peak load of 5000 MW.
Join the discussion on distribution system modelling, maintenance and construction activities, power outage response and work protection application in our new state-of-the-art control centre.
www.torontohydro.com
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