To design and manufacture an automated valve operating system for a remote eight megawatt hydro power station at Loch Sloy in the Highlands.

The existing system was a hand operated arrangement requiring operators to travel up the hillside to the valve house by off-road vehicle to physically open or close the valve.

• Eliminate operator input.

• Facilitate remote control operation.

• A unitised construction is required to simplify installation and achieve a demanding commissioning programme.

• Design a system using a motor driven pump unit.

• A suitable control system incorporating alarms for remote monitoring of system status.

• Integrate system in to bespoke hydraulic circuit manifold assembly

• Client no longer has to make the long journey to site to operate the valve; the new hydraulic system is operated from central control.

• Environmental concerns have been eliminated with the new leak-free system.

• New system shall provide many years of trouble free operation.

• The equipment was of course completed for the scheduled Helicopter delivery.