Iowa Hill PSPP
Owner’s Engineering Services for first of its kind hydraulic power plant in the USA
Description of project:
- Basic and Tender design stage
- Dam upper reservoir: CFRD Dam; dam height: 69 m
- Dam lower reservoir: Arch Dam; dam height: 71 m
- Upstream reservoir capacity: 8 Mio. m3
- Max. head: 383 m
- Number of unit: 3 with total capacity of 400 MW
- Type of machine: Variable speed
- Rated flow per unit: 45 m3/s
ÅF's services:
- Lower reservoir I/O design
- Review of waterways and plant concept
- Hydraulic transient simulations
- Preliminary (~basic design) and final functional (tender) design of pump-turbine, variable speed motor-generators, auxiliaries
- Project schedule, construction cost
- Design-build solicitation documents
