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Kops II power station – Enormous chamber the Austrian power supplier will be oper-
ating several facilities including ten
plying its contracting partners Energie
Baden-Württemberg (EnBW), Vorarlber-
concreted with a minimum of expense power stations and four high altitude
storage lakes (beneath the Silvretta-
ger Kraftwerke AG (VKW) and Tiroler
Wasserkraft AG (TIWAG) with surge
stausee lake), which are interconnected current and control energy. The entire
via a 100 km long tunnel system. Since installed turbine output currently stands
the beginning in 1925, the network for at 1,248 MW; when Kops II is put into
Vorarlberger Illwerke was founded in harnessing water power to generate elec- operation it will be 1,700 MW. The rated
Vorarlberger Illwerke AG is signifi- 1924 as a private limited company and it tricity has been consistently expanded. input in pumping operations would then
cantly expanding its capacities for has been a public limited company since Today, Illwerke plays an important role in increase from 533 MW to 983 MW.
the European electricity market 1927. When Kopswerk II is completed, the European electricity network by sup-
through the construction of the
pumped storage power station,
Why Kops II ?
Kops II, which has a turbine output
of 450 MW. During the construct- When completed the Kops II power station will
ion the cavern cavity, the extensive be the largest pumped storage power station
concrete work in the enormous Surge tank Pressure tunnel operated by Vorarlberger Illwerke AG. Thanks to
machine chamber is performed modern technology the machines in the cham-
ber power station achieve a particularly high
with just one stationary BSA con- degree of efficiency. This means that Kops II has
crete pump and one stationary the best conditions for electricity network regul-
concrete boom, which is operated ation for both controlled operation and during
alternatively on two tubular co- times of peak demand. The purpose of the
power station's three machines, each with an
lumns. Work is carried out around
output of 150 MW, is not just the generation of
the clock in a 3 shift operation. The electricity however, but also to pump the water
construction costs for the cavern Access tunnels from the sub-basin using excess electricity from
Tafamunt
power station and the underwater the network back into the storage reservoirs
systems are estimated at approx. located several hundred metres higher.
30 million €. The work on Kops- When electricity is supplied for industrial and
werk II started in September 2004 private household use a differentiation is made
and the start up operation is plan- Pressure shaft between basic, medium and peak load, which
ned for 2008. depends on the time of day and the day of the
week. For public utilities this means having to
make alternating capacities available at short
The new pumped storage power station notice. While hydro and thermal power stations
is close to Kopswerk I in Montafon and, are suitable for supplying basic and medium
like this station, it also makes use of loads due to their continuous function, pumped
water from the Kopssee lake. The project storage power stations are particularly suitable
for supplying electricity during times of peak
comprises construction sections 1 and 2 demand. In these stations water flows from an
(pressure tunnels, surge tank and pres- upper storage lake, through pressure lines into
sure shaft) as well as section 3 with the Machine chamber lower-lying power station turbines coupled with
machine chamber and transformer hall generators, from where it is discharged into a
Underwater tunnels lower storage lake. Generally speaking, during
together with the supporting systems and
the night hours where consumption is low,
underwater systems. The work on con- more electricity is available than is used. This
struction section 3 is being conducted by excess electricity is used to pump the water
a consortium made up of Beton- und upward again from the lower storage facility to
Monierbau Gesellschaft m.b.H (Inns- ensure that no water is wasted. The difference in
altitude in Kops II is around 800 m.
bruck), Alpine Mayreder Bau GmbH Course of the pressure water tunnel at the Kops II pumped storage power station (Fig.: Vorarlberger Illwerke)
(Salzburg/Wals), Ed.Züblin AG Zweig-
niederlassung Tunnelbau (Stuttgart)
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A 60 m high machine hall hewn Stationary boom able to change tubular columns, raised from the gantry head race tunnels, but the overall length Four operators for both the MX stationa- characteristics. The volume of concrete
from the rock position crane, transported to the other end of the of the two tubular columns from which ry boom and the BSA concrete pump placed was approx. 2,200 m3. The con-
chamber and then attached to the second the boom is operated is also remarkable. have been instructed on how to operate struction work for the shell in the trans-
The machine chamber is considered an The construction of the six underground tubular column. The entire procedure By placing several tubular columns on the machines by the Austrian PM subsi- former chamber has been finished since
essential structure of Kopswerk II. It is stories and the assembly level is per- takes approx. 30 minutes, with the re- top of one another (which are available in diary, Hans Eibinger (Söding). Eibinger November 2006.
located approx. 150 m within the mount- formed using cast-in-place concrete; moval and connection of the delivery line lengths of 4, 6 and 10 m) they can be service engineers had also assisted pre-
ain and can be reached via an entrance altogether more than 39,000 m3 of con- likewise taking approximately 1/2 hour to continually adapted to the building pro- viously in the installation of the tubular Solid components require low
tunnel from Silvretta alpine road between crete is poured in the machine chamber. complete. Up to 360 m3 of concrete is gress and reach an ultimate height of columns and in the setting up of the con- w/c value
Gaschurn and Partenen. Its dimensions, at The base of the enormous rock hall and used for each section. 40 m in the final stage of the Kops II crete boom.
88 m in length, 60.5 m in height and 30.5 individual ceilings are up to 4 m thick machine chamber. Two braces provide A concrete of property class C25/30,
m in width, are extremely impressive. The and the walls which measure up to 8 m in MX boom concretes from 40 m additional stability for the tubular co- The neighbouring transformer chamber, which is manufactured on the constructi-
blasting drive was started in January 2006 height are constructed in thicknesses high tubular column lumns, which are provided at a height of measuring 35 m in length, 16 m in width on site in its own mixing plant, is used as
to excavate the enormous cavern, in one ranging between 0.2 and 4.0 m. The approx. 18 and 24 m and anchored into and 20 m in height, also exhibits impo- a standard formulation. Generally spea-
crown section and ten side wall sections. dimensions of the chamber mean that A striking feature of the unballasted MX the corresponding intermediate ceilings. sing dimensions, however it is clearly king a water/ cement (w/c) value that is
The crown section was excavated during two stationary concrete booms would 28-4 stationary boom is not only the smaller than the machine hall. The place- as low as possible is used to limit the
this process with two wall headings and a actually have been necessary for a uni- flexible Z fold system of the arm assemb- The boom receives the concrete from a ment of concrete for the foundations, hydration heat for the solid components,
core. Four layers of structural steel lattice form placement of concrete. After con- ly, which can even be used to concrete stationary PM concrete pump, which is wall formwork and ceilings was partly and in warmer seasons the ratio of
and a coat of shotcrete measuring approx. sulting engineers from Putzmeister AG, individual base sections of the turbine connected to the MX boom and its two conducted with a PM truck-mounted cement to fly ash is changed from 230
10 cm thick per reinforcement provided the consortium decided, however, to 2 tubular columns via a 150 m long deli- concrete pump BRF 24-4.09 H, whose kg: 90 kg to 200 kg: 120 kg per cubic
safety during the excavation procedure. install just one MX 28-4 stationary Transformer
Transformer chamber
Pressure very line (DN 125). The BSA 1408 E is ZR fold boom had the necessary slip metre.
shaft
The long-term safety of the enormous boom, which is operated alternatively by chamber actuated by a 75 kW electrical motor and
cavern is ensured by numerous prestress- two tubular columns. Due to the fact that Access tunnels it achieves a delivery rate of 79 m3/h or
File under: A 1.00, BP 1.03, A 4.00, BP 4.03

Underwater for chamber


ed strand anchors that are up to 32 m the individual sections for each floor are surge tank power station
71 bar concrete pressure in rod side
long. The three armoured turbine head never constructed at the same time, it operation (piston side: 53 m3/h or 106
race tunnels of the high pressure distribu- hardly ever disrupts the work process; bar). By using less machinery concrete
tion pipe flow into the machine chamber, this is ensured if the arm assembly of the can still be placed economically in a
Underwater Entrance
through which the driving water passes MX boom is removed from one of the tunnels
chamber of this magnitude.
via the pressure tunnel and the pressure
shaft from a fall height of 800 m and is Schematic diagram of the subsurface (Fig.:
System concept of Vorarlberger
Vorarlberger Illwerke)
driven onto the turbines' impeller blades. power station area Illwerke AG (Fig:. Vorarlberger Illwerke)
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The PM stationary boom MX 28-4 with "Z" fold system, which is operated alternatively by two tubular columns, adapts easily to the space conditions The BSA 1408 E is set up in the access tunnel and connected to both tubular columns of the MX boom via a delivery line measuring approx. 150 m
in the chamber

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