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Hydropower Notes
Hydropower Notes
Pramod Guragain
Instructor
Land Management Training Centre
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Introduction
Sectional View
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Gravitational Energy
A
SIMPLE
OVER
VIEW
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Catchment area/Watershed
• Drainage area or
gathering ground to
feed water to a
reservoir or lake etc .
• Or It is an area from
which rain flows into a
particular river, lake,
reservoir etc.
• Simply, it is an area
drained by a water
course.
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Canal
• A channel cut through land for boats or ships to
travel along (eg. the Suez canal joins the
Mediterranean and red sea, panama canal etc )
• or a channel cut through land to carry water to the
fields for crops known as an irrigations canal
• or a channel cut through land for water to be
supplied from intake area to the forbay tank for
generation of current in the power house using
penstock pipes.
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Types of Canal
• Open canal
– If canal is on the earth surface
• Underground canal/ Tunnel
– If canal is passed below the surface of the earth
– Nowadays most of the large hydropower project
have such types of canal
• While surveying for canal , depth of canal,
curvature , gradient, position for desalting basin
etc. should be kept in mind.
Grading/Slope
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Surge tank
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Surge tank
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Penstoke
Penstoke
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Penstoke
Powerhouse
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Powerhouse
Generator
• At the center of nearly all power stations is a
generator,
• A rotating machine that converts mechanical
energy into electrical energy by creating relative
motion between a magnetic field and a
conductor
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Tailrace
• The part below the water wheel through which
the spent water flows.
• A channel that carries water away from a water
wheel, turbine, etc.
• The tailrace is the downstream part of a dam
where the water re-enters the river.
• During construction, it is usually the lowest
point on the project and is used as the collection
point for construction debris.
Tailrace tunnel
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Transmission line
OFFICE
Planning
FIELD Reconnaissance
Preliminary survey
OFFICE Computation, Plotting & Drawing
Designing/Paper location
FIELD Location Survey
Construction
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CLASSIFICATION OF HYDROPOWER
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CLASSIFICATION OF HYDROPOWER
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tHanK you
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dISCHarGe
meaSurement
PRAMOD GURAGAIN
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