Hydro Electric Power Plant

Name: Hydro Electric Power Plant
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Power Plant Engineering

Last updated 8/2022

English

What you'll learn

To study layout and Selection Criteria for Hydel power plant
To get the knowledge of various components of hydel power plant
To study the working principle of Hydel Power Plant.
To have basic concepts regarding classification of Hydel Power plant .
To study the Pros and Cons of Hydel Power plant
To know the importance of Hydrograph, flow duration curves and mass curve and their methods to solve the numericals based o n hydrograph, flow duration curve.

1 section • 5 lectures • 1h 5m total length

Introduction and layout12:02
Working Principle of Hydel Power Plant10:20
Explore the working principle of hydropower: dam, catchment, penstock, turbine, generator; and outline site selection criteria, merits, and demerits.
Classification of Hydel Power Plant12:28
Classify hydroelectric plants by available head, load type, and water. Explore high, medium, and low head plants, base and peak load, runoff river, storage, pumped storage, and micro hydro.
Numericals on Hydel Power Plant13:17
Hydrograph, Flow duration curve and mass curve17:37

Syllabus points of Hydel Power plant

Hydroelectric Power Plant : site selection, classification of HEPP (based on head, nature of load, water quantity), criteria for turbine selection, dams, spillways, surge tank and forebay, advantages and disadvantages of HEPP, hydrograph ,flow duration curve ,mass curve, (Numerical Treatment) environmental impacts of HEPP

Objectives of the course are :
To study layout and Selection Criteria for Hydel power plant
To get the knowledge of various components of hydel power plant
To study the working principle of Hydel Power Plant.
To have basic concepts regarding classification of Hydel Power plant .
To study the Pros and Cons of Hydel Power plant
To know the importance of Hydrograph, flow duration curves and mass curve and their methods to solve the numericals

Brief about the course:

Said course is a part of Subject Energy Engineering for BE Mechanical Students
Already uploaded other courses of subject with different titles.
Hydel Power plant is a vital electricity generating plant as a Renewable source.
Most of the points of Syllabus are covered in total 5 lectures along with numericals.
It is my sincere effort to explain the course with simple language and definitely helpful for final year students and to release some pressure on them.
Uploading video lectures along with resource files covering almost all points of the syllabus, for revision purpose.

Course Outcomes:

After completion of Course Learner will be able to
Understand the various criteria for selection and layout of Hydel Power Plant.
Will be able to understand the working of Hydel Power plant .
Will get the idea of classification of Hydel power plants with Pros and Cons .
Get knowledge of what is hydrograph, flow curve and mass curves etc and their importance for the Engineers while selection of Hydel Power Plant.