How we facilitated the sustainable renewal of the Swedish power plant Bruksfors

The rehabilitation works in Bruksfors took about a year before the power plant could be inaugurated. No oil, grease lubricants or other toxic substances were allowed to enter the water during the construction phase. The same now applies during operation. This was just one of the reasons that the operators chose the StreamDiver: it doesn’t require oil or lubricants. In addition, the compact design of the power plant with only a few movable parts allows an integration of the existing dam without any further construction or environmental impacts.

And there was another environmental constriction to take into consideration: there were also special requirements regarding fish migration. Researchers from the Lulea University of Technology therefore developed a special fish migration system that offers a bypass for the downstream migration of the fish.

The StreamDiver in Bruksfors runs without interference or disruptions: a general inspection was carried out by the client after a year of operation and was concluded to the client’s complete satisfaction. Unlike other technologies, the StreamDiver has no follow-up costs for maintenance. Since the start of operation of the StreamDiver in Bruksfors, a continuous power supply is fed into the local grid.