Crane for special Applications

Pumped energy is a term for energy stored in the form of potential energy, usually by pumping water from a low reservoir to a high reservoir. When the use of this energy is required, the pumped water is dropped and the potential energy becomes kinetic energy (“water energy” used to generate electricity).

As part of the Agira Shauba Gilboa power plant, a hydroelectric power generation facility, shafts with a height of about 100 meters and about 540 meters were erected.
For the purpose of digging these shafts, blasting technology was used. The staff and equipment that descends into the shaft on a platform weighing about 24 tons was lowered by a special crane that included 7 winches made by EMCE, the Netherlands.
4 winches lowered the platform which included drills for drilling holes for the dynamite sleeves, a bucket for removing the rocks and a concrete spraying system.
2 winches lowered an elevator car with 7 workers.
Another winch was used to lower a concrete boiler with 2 cubic meters of concrete.