{"id":3154,"date":"2024-02-13T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:48:09","slug":"test-of-winter-opening-of-the-dam-gate-at-kvistforsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/news\/test-of-winter-opening-of-the-dam-gate-at-kvistforsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Test of winter opening of the dam gate at Kvistforsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In -25 degree cold, a test was carried out to open the frozen flat hatch in winter, which in the fall of 2022 was equipped with a de-icing system based on Linnovation&#039;s patented technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The purpose of the test was:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>To investigate the ice situation at the two hatches at one of the Kvistforsen dams, one equipped with a de-icing system from Linnovation and the other completely without heating.<\/li>\n<li>Opening the flat hatch under the most difficult temperature conditions imaginable (-25 to -30 degrees)<\/li>\n<li>To gain an understanding of whether the selected periodic heating cycle for the hatch is sufficient or if it needs to be changed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the ice covering the hatch extended almost three meters underwater and was approximately 30 to 40 cm thick, the hatch could be opened and closed without any problems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kvistforsen_dammlucka_image011.png\" alt=\"Kvistforsen_damlock\" width=\"609\" height=\"223\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kvistforsen_dammlucka_image011.png 609w, https:\/\/linnovation.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kvistforsen_dammlucka_image011-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/linnovation.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kvistforsen_dammlucka_image011-18x7.png 18w, https:\/\/linnovation.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kvistforsen_dammlucka_image011-600x220.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Kvistforsen Dam, a test was conducted at -25 \u00b0C to evaluate Linnovation&#039;s de-icing system in severe winter conditions \u2013 with the aim of assessing the system&#039;s function, ice situation and heating strategy under extreme conditions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyheter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnovation.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}