Obervermuntwerk II

Powerful submersible Motor Pumps
to secure the Tunnel Drives

View of the Obervermuntwerk II site Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
View of the Obervermuntwerk II site
Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
A SPT submersible pump is positioned Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
A SPT submersible pump is positioned
Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
Even an untrained eye can see that the groundwater is contaminated with sand and gravel, bentonite and drilling emulsion. Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
Even an untrained eye can see that the groundwater is contaminated with sand and gravel, bentonite and drilling emulsion.
Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
SPT-R submersible sludge pumps are fitted with an agitator for the pumping of problematic sand-water mixtures Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
SPT-R submersible sludge pumps are fitted with an agitator for the pumping of problematic sand-water mixtures
Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
SPT pumps have built-in motor protection and can be run dry absolutely safely Quelle/credit: Söndgerath
SPT pumps have built-in motor protection and can be run dry absolutely safely
Quelle/credit: Söndgerath

The pumped storage hydropower plant Obervermuntwerk II should be completed in 2018 to become one of the most ambitious power stations in Europe. The construction project in the Austrian state of Voralberg was started in 2014 and will become the second largest plant of the Vorarlberger Illwerke AG. This will not only support national and European climate aims; the intention of the project according to the operator is to provide additional regulating energy and the corresponding capacities for the acceptance of electricity for intermediate storage.

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