Subject Code: CE4L009 Subject Name:  Hydropower Engineering L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Power generation through storage (dams) and diversion (barrages); run-of the river schemes with and without pondage; integrated powerhouse with barrage / on diversion channel; pumped storage schemes; tidal power plants; hydroelectric plant layouts for open flow diversion schemes and pressure diversion system or their combinations; underground projects with pressure diversion systems; position of power house (surface, underground or semi- underground); hydropower conveyance structures intakes, conveyance structures and outflow structures; intakes to canals and tunnels (with corresponding de-silting arrangements); intakes for in-stream powerhouses; reservoir type intakes, trash rack and its design; intakes for embankment dams; water conducting systems open channels, fore-bays, tunnels, surge tanks, penstocks, valves and anchor blocks; layout and sections of tunnels; tunnel deign basics; construction methods for tunnels; penstock components (bends, reducer, branches, manifolds); turbine foundations and overhead traveling crane frame; underground powerhouse cavern; types of turbines and their selection.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Subramanya K. Flow in open channels, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Education.
  2. Garg S.K.Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Khanna Publishers.
  3. Subramanya K. Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, Tata McGraw-Hill Education.
  4. Daugherty R.L.Hydraulic Turbines, McGraw-Hill.