Conowingo hydro station is a run-of-the river plant located on the lower part of the Susquehanna River and containing
13 total generating units. The facility was commissioned in 1928 with 7 units rated 40 MVA and was expanded in 1962 with 4 units rated 65 MVA. It contributes an average of
1.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. There are also two station service units rated 1600 kVA to supply plant auxilliary load.
Voith Siemens Hydro has been selected to modernize turbines and generators for 4 Francis units using the environmentally friendly dissolved oxygen turbine technology for improving the water quality. These Francis runners aerate the gases, mainly oxygen, through fine channels within the runner blades.
The „aerating runner“ is only one of several solutions, which Voith Siemens Hydro offers with their turbines and generators for environmentally friendly solutions. |
