Hydropower as an energy medium, is the use of high pressure water (typically 100 bar – 250 bar) to power, drive and operate various items of equipment such as tunnel development drilling rigs, reef boring drilling rigs, ore pass development drilling rigs, drain hole drilling rigs, hand held rock drills, drifters, DTH hammers, monorail systems, rock loaders, ore pass chutes, cooling fans, emulsion explosive mixers, blast hole desludgers, grout pumps, chain saws, water jetting guns as well as the control of actuators and pilot systems on the HPE valve range. We also design and manufacture the pump set that supplies the high pressure water.
Hydropower is an alternative energy source to compressed air, oil hydraulics and electric powered machines and due to its efficiency and effectiveness creates the opportunity to increase the rate of production of a mine. It is also practical and user friendly and contributes to an improvement in the health and safety aspects of deep level underground mining.