In June 2014, Günter Knerr, Director of
technical customer support Europe, and
Marc Bode, a sales employee responsible
for Austria and Switzerland, attended the
installation of the first CASAR Duroplast
whose interior is permeated with an electric conductor. The rope is designed to move
fixed-track cable cars in the lower third of
the supply tunnel of the storage power plant
Salanfe.
This tunnel connects the reservoir
1,925 m above mean sea level with the power
plant Miéville 1,472 m below. The reservoir
has a capacity of 40 million m³ of water, the
power plant a performance of 70 MW. The
pressure pipe and therefore the tunnel have
a gradient of up to 95%. The electric conductor inside of the rope ensures the transmission of control and communication signals
from the winch control room to the cable car.
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