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The Krasnoyarsk ship lift (
Russian
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: ) is the only
ship lift
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in Russia. Construction began in 1976 at the
Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station
The Krasnoyarsk Dam is a high concrete gravity dam located on the Yenisey River about upstream from Krasnoyarsk in Divnogorsk, Russia. It was constructed from 1956 to 1972, and it supplies about 6,000 MW of electricity, mostly used to supply th ...
on the
Yenisei River
The Yenisey (russian: Енисе́й, ''Yeniséy''; mn, Горлог мөрөн, ''Gorlog mörön''; Buryat: Горлог мүрэн, ''Gorlog müren''; Tuvan: Улуг-Хем, ''Uluğ-Hem''; Khakas: Ким суғ, ''Kim suğ''; Ket: Ӄук ...
. Operation began in 1982.
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. The platform of the lift moves along the rack railway
A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with ...
, with the track gauge
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of 9 m. The movement is carried out by means of electric drive.
In order to load the ship lift, the platform is lowered below the water level, at which point the ship then enters the lift, and the platform begins to move up the overpass. The ships are transported afloat.
At the top of the platform where it meets together with the ship its pulled into the turntable
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, which moves the lift onto another track, by which the platform is lowered to the upper tail water below the water level. When this is complete, the ship may leave the lift.
Developer of boat lift - Lenhydroproject
Lenhydroproject (russian: Ленгидропроект) is a major research and design institute for hydrotechnology and hydroelectric engineering based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Since 1993 it is incorporated as a " JSC Lenhydroproject", part of R ...
, manufacturer - Lengidrostal.
Technical features
* calculated load capacity - up to 1,500 ton
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Mainly it describes units of weight. Confusion can arise because ''ton'' can mean
* the long ton, which is 2,240 pounds
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* useful dimensions of ship-chamber: length - 90 m, width - 18 m, depth - 2.2 m
* overall dimensions of ship-chamber: length - 113 m, width - 26 m, the maximum height - 20 m
* ship-chamber weight: without water - 4 500 tonnes, with the water and the vessel - 8 100 tonnes
* level difference between the upper and lower tail water - 104 m
* length of the "dry" way - 1180 m
* full operational length with underwater sections - 1510 m
* speed - 1 m/s[Наука и жизнь: № 1 1977 — Page 59: «Необходимое тяговое усилие — 850 т, способное передвигать по уклону на пути более 1,5 км такое гигантское стальное сооружение со скоростью 1 м в секунду»]
* rod - 850 tonnes
* gearless drive - motors
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Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power gen ...
1MR16C (68 kW, the moment 29000 Nm, 24 rev/min)Гидромоторы 1МР16C
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* number of motors and the support wheels - 156
* number of carriages - 78
* limiting the size of the transported vessel - length 80
m, width 17 m, draft 1.86 m
* maximum axle load - 104 tons per axle
* diameter of the rotator - 106 m, angle of rotation - 140 degrees
See also
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Boat lift
A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock.
It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like ...
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water lev ...
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List of boat lifts
Notes
References
Описание Красноярского судоподъёмника на сайте института ЛенгидропроектФотографии судоподъёмника в действии*
ttp://blog.rushydro.ru/?p=3033 Фоторепортаж. Переход рабочих колес через Красноярскую ГЭС// Блог Русгидро
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