1. hydro-electric power plant
A Presentation On
hydro-electric power plant
By :-
Rakesh kumar
Assistant professor
Electrical Engineering Department.
BABA HIRA SINGH BHATTAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY LEHRAGAGA DISTT.SANGRUR (Pb.)

2. HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER PLANT

3. WHAT IS HYDRO POWER? The objective of a hydropower scheme is to convert the potential energy of water, flowing in a stream with a certain fall to the turbine (termed the "head"), into electric energy at the lower end of the scheme, where the powerhouse is located. The power output from the scheme is proportional to the flow and to the head.

4. HYDRO-POWER PLANT
It plays very important role in the development of country.
It provides power at cheapest rate.
About 20% of the total world power is generated using hydro power plants.

5. SOURCE OF ENERGY Fuels. Energy storage of water. Nuclear energy.
Wind energy.
Tidal energy.
Solar energy.
Geothermal energy.
Thermo electric power

6. Power Generation system.
Thermal Power Generation system.
Hydro electric Power Generation system.
Nuclear Power Generation system.
Diesel Power Generation system.
Non conventional energy power Generation system.

7. Hydro electric power station.
TYPES OF HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER STATION.
PARTS OF HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER STATION.
HIGH HEAD SCHEME.
MEDIUM HEAD SCHEME.
LAW HEAD SCHEME.
ADVANTAGES.
DISADVANTAGES.
SITE SILECTION OF HYDRO POWER STATION.

8. Hydrologic Cycle

9. Hydrology Meteorology Surface water hydrology Hydrogeology
Study of the atmosphere including weather and climate.
Surface water hydrology
Flow and occurrence of water on the surface of the earth.
Hydrogeology
Flow and occurrence of ground water.
Watersheds

10. Hydrology
Hydrology may be defined as the science which deals with the depletion and replenishment of water resources. It deals with surface water as well as ground water. It is also concerned with transportation of water from one place to another.
MASS CURVE
Mass curve is the graph of cumulative values of water quantity against time.

11. Hydrographs
There are many types of hydrographs. Hydrograph is defined as a graph showing discharge of flowing water with respect to time for a specified time.

12. HYDROGRAPHS SHOWS Graph of stream flow vs. time
Obtained by means of a continuous recorder which indicates stage vs. time (stage hydrograph)
Transformed to a discharge hydrograph by application of a rating curve.
Typically are complex multiple peak curves Available on the web.

13. Hydrograph Nomenclature
storm of Duration D
Precipitation P tl tp
peak flow
Discharge
baseflow Q
new baseflow
w/o rainfall
Time

14. If we measure the rainfall and put it on a time graph and link that to the amount of water in the river, we have some really useful information!
This graph is hydrograph. It plots rainfall against discharge (that is the amount of water in the river as it passes a particular point measured in cubic metres per seconds or cumecs).
Changes measured over time is river regime - eg. in winter there is more rain, less evaporation, less vegetation to absorb it.

15. WE CAN READ THE FOLLOWING FROM THE HYDROGRAPH
Rate of flow at any instant during the duration period.
Total volume of flow upto that instant as the area under hydrograph denotes the volume of water in that duration.
The mean annual run-off.
The minimum and maximum run-off for the year.

16. Flow duration curve
Flow duration curve is a useful form to represent the run-off data for the given time. This curve is plotted between flow available during a period versus the fraction of time.
The flow duration curve is drawn with the help of hydrograph from the available run-off data and is necessary to find out the time duration for which flows available .

17. The Indian Scenario
The potential is about MW at 60% load factor spread across six major basins in the country.
Pumped storage sites have been found recently which leads to a further addition of a maximum of MW.
Annual yield is assessed to be about 420 billion units per year though with seasonal energy the value crosses600 billion mark.
The possible installed capacity is around MW (Based on the report submitted by CEA to the Ministry of Power)

18. Continued …
The proportion of hydro power increased from 35% from the first five year plan to 46% in the third five year plan but has since then decreased continuously to 25% in 2001.
The theoretical potential of small hydro power is MW.
Currently about 17% of the potential is being harnessed.
About 6.3% is still under construction.

19. Major Hydropower generating units
NAME
STATA
CAPACITY (MW)
BHAKRA
PUNJAB
1100
NAGARJUNA
ANDHRA PRADESH
960
KOYNA
MAHARASHTRA
920
DEHAR
HIMACHAL PRADESH
990
SHARAVATHY
KARNATAKA
891
KALINADI
810
SRISAILAM
770

20. Major Hydropower Producers

21. Major Hydropower Producers
Canada, 341,312 GWh (66,954 MW installed)
USA, 319,484 GWh (79,511 MW installed)
Brazil, 285,603 GWh (57,517 MW installed)
China, 204,300 GWh (65,000 MW installed)
Russia, 173,500 GWh (44,700 MW installed)
Norway, 121,824 GWh (27,528 MW installed)
Japan, 84,500 GWh (27,229 MW installed)
India, 82,237 GWh (22,083 MW installed)
France, 77,500 GWh (25,335 MW installed)
“Hydroelectricity,” Wikipedia.org

22. TRANSFORMER BLOCK DIAGRAM PENSTOCK DAM TURBINE GENERATOR RESEVOIR
POWER HOUSE
PENSTOCK
DAM
TURBINE
GENERATOR
RESEVOIR
INTAKE
POWER LINE
TRANSFORMER

23. How Hydropower Works
Water from the reservoir flows due to gravity to drive the turbine.
Turbine is connected to a generator.
Power generated is transmitted over power lines.

24. How Hydropower Works
A water turbine that convert the energy of flowing or falling water into mechanical energy that drives a generator, which generates electrical power. This is a heart of hydropower power plant.
A control mechanism to provide stable electrical power. It is called governor.
Electrical transmission line to deliver the power to its destination.

25. Sizes of Hydropower Plants
Large plants : capacity >30 MW
Small Plants : capacity b/w 100 kW to 30 MW
Micro Plants : capacity up to 100 kW

26. Sizes of Hydropower Plants
Pico hydroelectric plant.
Up to 10kW, remote areas, away from the grid.
Micro hydroelectric plant
Capacity 10kW to 300kW, usually provided power for small community or rural industry in remote areas away from the grid.
Small hydroelectric plant.
Capacity 300kW to 1MW
Mini hydroelectric plant.
Capacity above 1MW
Medium hydroelectric plant.
MW usually feeding a grid.
Large hydroelectric plant.
More than 100 MW feeding into a large electricity grid.

27. Classification of Hydro electric power station.
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON HEAD.
High head plant ( < 300 m.)
Medium head plant. (60m to 300 m.)
Low head plant. ( > 60m.)
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON WATER CONDITION.
Flow of water plant.
Storage of water plant.
Pump storage water plant.

28. Micro Hydropower Systems
Many creeks and rivers are permanent, they never dry up, and these are the most suitable for micro-hydro power production.
Micro hydro turbine could be a water-wheel turbine, Pelton wheel. (most common turbine).
Others : Turgo, Cross-flow and various axial flow turbines.

29. HYDRO POWER PLANT Head Dams: Are of three categories.
Water must fall from a higher elevation to a lower one to release its stored energy.
The difference between these elevations (the water levels in the forebay and the tailbay) is called head.
Dams: Are of three categories.
high-head (800 or more feet)
medium-head (100 to 800 feet)
low-head (less than 100 feet)
Power is proportional to the product of head x flow

30. Scale of Hydropower Projects
Large-hydro
More than 100 MW feeding into a large electricity grid.
Medium-hydro
MW usually feeding a grid.
Small-hydro
MW - usually feeding into a grid.
Mini-hydro
Above 100 kW, but below 1 MW.
Micro-hydro
From 5kW up to 100 kW
Usually provided power for a small community or rural industry in remote areas away from the grid.
Pico-hydro
From a few hundred watts up to 5kW.
Remote areas away from the grid.

31. Classification of Hydro electric power station.
Classification based on operation.
Manual plant.
Automatic plant.
Classification based on type of load.
Base load plant.
Peak load plant.

32. Element of Hydro power station,
Reservoir.
Catchments area.
Dam.
(a) Earthen dam.
(b) Masonry dam.
(c) Concrete dam.
4. Spill ways.
5. Screen.
6. Fore bay or Intake.

33. Element of Hydro power station,
7. Tunnel.
8. Penstock or pipe line.
9. Surge tank.
10. Draft tube.
11. Tail race.
12. Fish passes.
13. Turbine.

34. Different type of schemes of Hydro power plant.
1.High head schemes.
2.Medium head schemes.
3.Low head schemes.

35. Different type of turbine use in hydro power station
1.High head schemes. (Impulse turbine, pelton wheel)
2.Medium head schemes. (reaction turbine )
3.Low head schemes. (propeller turbine )

36. Micro Hydro Example
Used in remote locations in northern Canada

37. Pumped Storage Schematic

38. Cabin Creek Pumped Hydro
base load capacity
Water flows downhill during day/peak periods
Typical efficiency of 70 – 85%Completed 1967
Capacity – 324 MW
Two 162 MW units.
Purpose – energy storage
Water pumped uphill at night
Low usage – excess
Efficiency losses from water evaporation at upper reservoir and usual mechanical efficiency losses

39. Advantages of Pumped Storage plant
There is substantial increase in peak load capacity of plant at comparatively low capital cost.
There is an improvement in the load factor of plant.
Load on hydro-electrical plant remains uniform.

40. World’s Largest Dams Three Gorges Itaipú Guri Grand Coulee
Name
Country
Year
Max
Generation
Annual
Production
Three Gorges
China
2009
18,200 MW
Itaipú
Brazil/Paraguay
1983
12,600 MW
93.4 TW-hrs
Guri
Venezuela
1986
10,200 MW
46 TW-hrs
Grand Coulee
United States
1942/80
6,809 MW
22.6 TW-hrs
Sayano Shushenskaya
Russia
6,400 MW
Robert-Bourassa
Canada
1981
5,616 MW
Churchill Falls
1971
5,429 MW
35 TW-hrs
Iron Gates
Romania/Serbia
1970
2,280 MW
11.3 TW-hrs
Ranked by maximum power.
“Hydroelectricity,” Wikipedia.org

41. Dam Types
Arch
Gravity
Buttress
Embankment or Earth

42. FIRST ELEMENT :-
DAMS

43. Arch Dams Arch shape gives strength Less material (cheaper)
Narrow sites
Need strong abutments

44. Concrete Gravity Dams Weight holds dam in place.
Lots of concrete. (expensive)

45. Buttress Dams Face is held up by a series of supports.
Flat or curved face.

46. Turbine Ranges of Application
Boyle, Renewable Energy, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2003

47. Turbine Design Recommendations
Head Pressure
High
Medium
Low
Impulse
Pelton
Turgo
Multi-jet Pelton
Crossflow
Reaction
Francis
Pump-as-Turbine
Propeller
Kaplan
Boyle, Renewable Energy, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2003

48. Turbine Design
Francis Turbine Kaplan Turbine Pelton Turbine Turgo Turbine New Designs

49. List of Various factors which describe the selection of turbine
Specific speed; high specific speed is essential where head is low.
Rotational speed;
Efficiency;
Part of load operation;
Cavitations;
Disposition of turbine shaft;
Head;

50. Turbine Classified

51. Types of Hydropower Turbines

52. Classification of Hydro Turbines
Reaction Turbines
Derive power from pressure drop across turbine.
Totally immersed in water.
Angular & linear motion converted to shaft power.
Propeller, Francis, and Kaplan turbines
Impulse Turbines
Convert kinetic energy of water jet hitting buckets.
No pressure drop across turbines.
Pelton, Turgo, and crossflow turbines

53. Schematic of Francis Turbine

54. Francis Turbine Cross-Section

55. Fixed-Pitch Propeller Turbine

56. Kaplan Turbine Schematic

57. Impulse Turbines
Uses the velocity of the water to move the runner and discharges to atmospheric pressure.
The water stream hits each bucket on the runner.
High head, low flow applications.
Types : Pelton turbine, Turgo turbine

58. Impulse Turbines
Uses the velocity of the water to move the runner and discharges to atmospheric pressure.
The water stream hits each bucket on the runner.
No suction downside, water flows out through turbine housing after hitting.
High head, low flow applications.
Types : Pelton wheel, Cross Flow

59. Reaction Turbines Combined action of pressure and moving water.
Runner placed directly in the water stream flowing over the blades rather than striking each individually.
Lower head and higher flows than compared with the impulse turbines.

60. Chain Turbine

61. Advantages of Chain Turbine
It is run-of-river power plant.
Do not worry about the turbidity of water.
There is no danger of cavitations.
It is simple to construct, repaired and maintenance.

62. Disadvantages of Chain Turbine
The slow rotation of chain turbine leads to high speed ratios when connect to generator at 600 rpm – 1500 rpm.
This chain turbine operation is very noisy.
Structure of turbine is very big.

63. Pelton Wheel Turbine

64. Pelton Wheels
Nozzles direct forceful streams of water against a series of spoon-shaped buckets mounted around the edge of a wheel.
Each bucket reverses the flow of water and this impulse spins the turbine.

65. Pelton Wheels Suited for high head, low flow sites.
The largest units can be up to 200 MW.
Can operate with heads as small as 15 meters and as high as 1,800 meters.

66. Turbine Design Ranges Kaplan 2 < H < 40 Francis
Pelton
Turgo
2 < H < 40  
10 < H < 350
50 < H < 1300
50 < H < 250
(where H = head in meters)

67. View of penstock &draft tube in Hydro power plant.

68. PENSTOCK &DRAFT TUBE The movement of water can be used to make electricity. Energy from water is created by the force of water moving from a higher elevation to a lower elevation through a large pipe (penstock). When the water reaches at the end of the pipe, it hits and spins the water wheel or a turbine. The turbine rotates the connected shaft, which then rotates the generator, for making electricity.

69. Hydro electric power plant.`
Construction of Turbine.
Inlet
Outlet
Impulse turbine for High head plant.

70. Hydro electric power plant.`
Medium head plant
Medium head plant

71. Top View of Francis turbine in Hydro power station. `

72. Hydro electric power plant.`
Propeller turbine for low head plant.

73. Construction of penstock in hydro power station.

74. View of penstock in Hydropower station.

75. PENSTOCK “used for conveying water from the intake to the power house”
PENSTOCK “used for conveying water from the intake to the power house”. The water in the reservoir is considered as stored energy. When the gate opens, the water flowing through the penstock strikes the turbine.

76. Function of surge tank
Its function is to prevent sudden increase of pressure in the supply line or in the penstock. It is placed as near as possible to the turbine.
Water hammer
Due to the variation in the demand of water supply according to load, the turbine gates get closed suddenly which cause increase in pressure. This is known as water hammer.

77. INTAKE

78. TRASH RACK Almost all small hydroelectric plants have a trash rack cleaning machine, which removes all material from water in order to avoid entering in plants intake water.

79. Working diagram Hydro electric power plant.

80. Tailraces:-
After passing through the turbine the water returns to the river trough a short canal called a tailrace.

81. What is the function of Spill ways?
Function of spillway is to discharge the excess amount of water during floods and keep the level of water to the head of reservoir. During the lifetime of a dam different flow conditions will be experienced and a dam must be able to safely accommodate high floods that can exceed normal flow conditions in the river. For this reason, carefully passages are corporated in the dams as a part of structure. These passages are known as spillways.

82. Advantage of Hydro power station.
The plant is simple in construction ,robust and required low maintenance.
It can be put in the service instantly.
It can respond to changing loads without any difficulty.
There are no stand by losses.
The running charges are very small.
No fuels is burnt.
The plant is quite neat and clean.
The water after running the turbine can be used for irrigation and other purpose.

83. Disadvantage of Hydro power station.
The capital cost of generators, civil engineering work etc is high.
High cost of transmission lines.
Long dry seasons may effect the delivery of power.

84. Selection of site for Hydro electric power station.
sufficient quantity of water at a reasonable head should be available.
The site should allow for strong foundations with minimum cost.
There should be no possibility of future source of leakage of water.
The selected site should be accessible easily.
There should be possibility of stream diversion during construction period.
The reservoir to be constructed should have large catchments area, so that the water in it should never fall below the minimum level.

85. Benefits… Environmental Benefits of Hydro power plant.
• No operational greenhouse gas emissions.
Non-environmental benefits
– flood control, irrigation, transportation, fisheries and tourism.

86. Disadvantages Climatic and seismic effects.
The loss of land under the reservoir.
Interference with the transport of sediment by the dam.
Problems associated with the reservoir.
Climatic and seismic effects.
Impact on aquatic ecosystems, flora and fauna.

87. Loss of land
A large area is taken up in the form of a reservoir in case of large dams.
This leads to inundation of fertile alluvial rich soil in the flood plains, forests and even mineral deposits and the potential drowning of archeological sites.
Power per area ratio is evaluated to quantify this impact. Usually ratios lesser than 5 KW per hectare implies that the plant needs more land area than competing renewable resources. However this is only an empirical relation.

88. Effects
Capture of sediment decreases the fertility downstream as a long term effect.
It also leads to deprivation of sand to beaches in coastal areas.
If the water is diverted out of the basin, there might be salt water intrusion into the inland from the ocean, as the previous balance between this salt water and upstream fresh water in altered.
It may lead to changes in the ecology of the estuary area and lead to decrease in agricultural productivity.

89. Climatic and Seismic effects
It is believed that large reservoirs induce have the potential to induce earthquakes.
In tropics, existence of man-made lakes decreases the convective activity and reduces cloud cover. In temperate regions, fog forms over the lake and along the shores when the temperature falls to zero and thus increases humidity in the nearby area.

90. Hydropower Calculations
P = power in kilowatts (kW)
g = gravitational acceleration (9.81 m/s2)
 = turbo-generator efficiency (0<n<1)
Q = quantity of water flowing (m3/sec)
H = effective head (m)

91. Main pollutants from a power system
Non –toxic dust
Sulphurous anhydride
Carbon monoxide
Nitrogen dioxide
Soot (fly ash)
Hydrogen sulphide
Pollution can be define as the contamination of soil, air and water with undesirable amount of material and heat.

92. Acid rain; the rain which contain acid as its constituents, brings all the acid down from high above the environment.
Contaminant; it is the another name of pollution. It is undesirable substances which may be physical, chemical or biological.
Pollutant; these are undesirable substances present in the environment these can be NO2, SO2, CO2,smoke,salt, bacteria.

93. Advantages of combined operation of plants
Greater reliability of supply to the consumers.
Avoid complete shut down.
The overall cost of energy per unit of an interconnected system is less.
There is a more effective use of transmission line facilities.
Less capital investment required.
Less expenses on supervision, operation and maintenance.

94. Due to limited generating capacity diesel power stations
is not suitable for base load plants.
Nuclear power stations is not suitable for peak load plants.
Incremental rate curve shows that as output power increases, cost of plant also increases.

95. Various types of tariffs
Flat rate tariff; by estimating load factor and diversity factor for various uses of electricity, we may merge the equitable contributation to the fixed charge of a particular class of consumers with each KWH consumption, the resultant tariff is a Flat rate tariff .
Two part tariff; total charge is split into two components i.e. a fixed charge depend upon the maximum demand and a variable charge based upon the energy consumption.

96. Block rate tariff; using this tariff, the fixed charge is merged into the unit charge for one or two blocks of consumption, all units in excess being charged at low unit rate.
Maximum demand tariff; these tariff differ from two part tariff only in the sense that maximum demand is actually measured by a demand indicator instead of assessing it merely on the bases of ratable value.
Power factor tariff; power factor tariffs are devised to make a distinction between overall charge per unit to be recovered from two types of consumers, one having a good power factor and the other having a poor power factor.

97. Wind power plants is least reliable, and hydro power plants are most reliable.
The power output from hydro power plant depends on discharge, head and system efficiency.
The power output from hydro power plant in KW is given by
0.736Qwhή/75
In hydro power plant the operating cost is low but the initial cost is high.
Gross head of an hydro power station is the difference of water level between in the storage and tail race.

98. The flow duration curve at a given head of hydro power plant is used to determine total power available at the site.
The draft tube is provided to increase the acting head on the water wheel.
For low head power plants kaplan turbines are used.
For high head and low discharge power plants pelton wheel turbines are used.
The specific speed (Ns) of a turbine is given by Ns=N√P/H1.25
The specific speed (Ns) of a turbine is the speed at which the turbine develops unit horse power at unit head.

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