It is known that power plants, in this case a large Eneco biomass plant in Farmsum, also have hydraulic installations in-house. Generally, these hydraulic installations are intended to drive steam valves, tailgates and “as-lifting” turbines. A hydraulic manufacturer of these aggregates provides the hydraulic service at the biomass plant, but was not set up to meet a new demand from Eneco.

The issue was: how can Eneco keep some electrically powered machines running at low speed during its maintenance stops while the machines are disconnected from electricity?

Integron engineers got to work on this and came to the following solution. Using a hydraulic generator and a hydraulic motor in a mobile structure with a flexible coupling that can temporarily drive the rear of the existing electric motors.

Integron has calculated this solution, compiled it and offered it to Eneco in a proposal. This resulted in a nice assignment for Integron worth 20k. It is not 'rocket science', but the combination of the right components, control, construction and active customer support by Integron engineers was the deciding factor in this case. Integron may also be able to carry out the hydraulic service here in the future.

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