KGAL Fluid Summer 2025 PT - Flipbook - Page 3
consulting engineers
Achanalt Barrage
The initial phase of the outline design of Upstream Stoplogs and Installation Gantry
for Achanalt Barrage, has now been completed on behalf of SSE.
The barrage controls the level in Loch a’Chuilinn releasing water into Achanalt
Power Station and consists of four vertical lift roller gates. The new stoplogs will
be used to isolate each of the gates in turn to enable scheduled refurbishment to
be carried out. The gantry will allow the stoplogs to be simply lifted from suitable
transport and moved into position using the gantry-mounted trolleys, then lowered
into existing stoplog grooves via chain blocks, to enable channel dewatering.
The gantry will also allow each gate, gate operating equipment and the central
üsh pass penstocks to be removed and installed as required.
The second phase of the design work is to carry out site checks to ünalise the
design and then compile detailed drawings, speciücations and calculations to
enable construction and installation.
Achanalt Barage Upstream
Achanalt Barage Downstream
Achanalt Barage Upstream
Finlarig
Following on from earlier work on the pipeline and penstock system at SSE
Renewable's Finlarig Power Station, near Killin, we are working to further
review the hydraulic capacity of the pipeline and penstock as part of wider
assessments on the future of the power station.
Achanalt Barage Downstream
River Basin Management
Aqueduct intakes
To meet the developing river management requirements of the Scottish
Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), we are working with SSE Renewables
to review the options to provide hands-oû ýows at six intakes across Scotland.