TES small hydro generator - Susasca, Switzerland
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- A SWISS PROJECT: SUSASCA HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER PLANT
For more than thirty years the Susasca mountain river hydro-electric power plant project in the Swiss canton of Lower Engadin has been worked on and abandoned. The time was never right for it. Today, however, a small hydro-electric power plant has been put into operation following plans drawn up by Markus Hintermann and Giovanni Mathis, both engineers of the Hydro-Solar company. Together with the borough of Susch, the two planning engineers are partners in the OESS-SA operating company.
After a construction period of eleven months, the company has marked the inauguration of the new plant with a celebration attended by the entire population of Susch and also by well-known politicians and personalities from the world of business. Producing approximately 17 GWh of power per year with an output of roughly 3MW, the hydro-electric power plant represents a worthwhile investment in a sustainable power supply for the small community south of the Füela pass.
THE CONCEPT OF THE TURBINE
One of two planned sets of machinery has been installed and put into operation: a synchronous generator made by the Czech company, TES Vsetín, which produces the electrical power; and a Pelton wheel with a vertical axis and four jets made by the Kössler company, which drives the TES synchronous generator. In July 2009 the long-established company from Lower Austria was commissioned to produce, supply and assemble the turbine and put it into operation. The commission for Kössler further stipulated a ball valve as a shut-off device, a distribution device for the subsequent connection of a second machine set during the final phase of construction, flow meter devices, a hydraulic turbine regulator for the supply of oil to the jets and deflectors and to the ball valve and, finally, the supply of the generator together with the water cooling system. With a water discharge of 1 m3/s and a gross head of 364.80 meters, the turbine is designed for an effective output of 3,139 kilowatts. Ideal water flow conditions are achieved through the instalment of internally adjustable jets.
PUTTING THE CONSTRUCTION INTO OPERATION.
About 30 years after the first plan for the hydro-electric power plant was conceived, the concept was realized within just eleven months. On the 11th of November, 2010, the machine unit was put into operation. "Since the start of the operation we have produced up to 8 mio. kWh of electricity to date. This will eventually rise to 17 mio. kWh in an average year. That will satisfy the needs of approximately 4,500 households." said Emil Müller, Town Mayor and VR-president of the OESS SA, in his speech commemorating the official opening of the plant. He did not try to disguise his joy: "For our small community this is the project of the century, not merely as far as the investment of 15 mio. CHF is concerned, but also with regard to the expected return of up to 300,000 CHF per year."
CZECH QUALITY GENERATOR RELIABLY PROVIDES A HIGH DEGREE OF EFFICIENCY
For the Engadin plant-of-the-century at Susasca, only machines satisfying the operators' and planners' high criteria of quality were considered. Without any doubt, this includes generators made by TES Vsetín. The Czech producer has earned an excellent reputation on account of the use of building components by highly regarded suppliers. Only first-rate parts are used, especially for delicate components like bearings, regulators and electronics. Combining these qualities with a robust construction, the plant thus achieves a high level of reliability as well as longevity. The synchronous generator has an axis height of 800 mm, an effective performance of 3,661 KVA and rotational speed of 1,000 rpm.
This synchronous generator for the Susasca plant meets expectations in every respect including a favourable tolerance of the thermal conditions, a very low noise level and a high level of efficiency. A solid warranty guarantees years of energy efficiency. The plant attests to the Czech electrical engineering company's tradition of more than 90 years.
This looks very clean and well constructed.
Unlike some of the mini hydro plants in China on You Tube, which are dirty and slapped together like a piece of junk.
Switzerland - Inventors of perfection
In Italy we do not have the same power stations, but daii is one of the many hydroelectric power plants in the Alps, well done and treated in detail but at the end are the kilowatt hours produced per year that count, there are both on the other side of the Alps
They are doing these in Romania and they are doing them so bad that they killed many fish and potentially exterminated some species completely.
Awesome looking project...just fantastic! Great video and lots of good information given. I wish all hydro videos were like this.
Again....great job. Enjoyed the video.
Precise, looks fantastic and clean just like their watches.
Great vid. Next time, ditch the music and include natural sounds. :)
You call it's a Small..?? 🤔🤔🤔
It's a fantastic project and it's so big hydro generator...
Small is 5kva up to 100kva.
That generator ussually up to more like I ask at to up...
I promise that is generator up to more 100kva...
Great job... 👍👍👍
Fantastic,hydro- electric power.
de Minas Gerais,Brazil
3.6 MW Mega Watts 3 600 000 Watts in the spring and 3.6 kW kiloWatts 3 600 Watts in the summer :)
I always wondered, how can such a small installation produce 3 MW per hour continously? If you use the same kind of setup but scale it down to say 20 kw an hour, how would it look then?
Hello, I am doing a thesis on hydroelectric power plant design, but I could not find a clear enough source. If there is a source that explains the principles of hydroelectric power plant design step by step, could you suggest you know?
I wish we could have these in the UK
Tech Truth , ask God for more mountains
So you need 50 years for the investment to start making a profit?
How much was the cost of this project?
That building cost more than the turbine. Poured concrete power hill. Yes.
Where is the intake?
Hi - is it possible to buy some of this video for a project I am working on please?
Nice ! but why in Switzerland is OK to build Small Hydro Power plants on rivers and in some other parts of Europe the Small Hydro power plants are presented to be a danger?! thare are some NGO like WWF which are trying to show that it is better to burn coal, natural gas, oil, etc. to produce electricity instead heaving "run of river" Hydro power plants.
KLS , because they have a lot of mountains and a lot of snow , you know , they are few km above sea level
I think i will be engineer here.
Would not this design concept make all hydroelectric dam power plants obsolete? Novartis
Jim Martin , not really, without water retension you have HUGE seasonal difference in power output
Why not construct an eternal funnel in the mountains that is a closed system that drives electromagnetic motors from the water vortex that pushes the water to restart the endless cycle to generate electricity?
The laws of thermodynamics, that's why.
The hydro electric generators in america are much bigger
What do I say to say what your affirmation means? I have the biggest car of yours? I have bigger than yours? The size of the generator / turbine depends on the power and the power depends on the jump in meters, so the water pressure more than the amount / flow available. logicapente is designed and built to measure the turbine for the available power flow and logical pressure, but obviously not for everyone ...
The hydroelectric turbines are differentiated by two types: kaplan Francis jet turbine in their multiple variables and action: like Pelton Turgo and cross-flow type michell banki / ossberger which are mainly at action with a small reaction on the discharge if vacuum aspirated. Logically you will not take a small car to go shopping, or to go out of your way as you will not use a truck driver to get out of the house to get a coffee and the newspaper! But come on in America they have everything bigger ...
speech as kids.
@@winterburan Goddamn right!
Everything is huge in America including the murder rate and peoples waist lines..you dumb bastard