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IV B.Tech.(CCC) Regular Examinations, December 2008 HYDRO POWER ENGINEERING (Civil Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 100 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks

1. A common load is shared by two stations, one being a base load plant with 25 MW installed capacity and other being a standby station with 30 MW capacity. The yearly output of the standby station is 10.5 106 kWh and that of the base load plant is 125 106 kWh. The peak load taken by the standby station is 15 MW and this station works for 2500 hours during the year. The base load station takes a peak of 22.5 MW. Find out: (a) Annual load factors for both stations. (b) Plant use factors for both stations. (c) Capacity factors for both stations.

2. A run-o-river hydroelectric power station is proposed across a river at a site where a net head of 25 m is available on the turbine. The river carries a sustained minimum ow of 30 m3 /sec in dry weather and behind the power station sucient pondage is provided to supply daily peak load of demand with a load factor of 71 %. Assuming the plant eciency of 56.4%, determine the maximum generating capacity of the generator to be installed at the powerhouse. If the daily load pattern indicates 21.5 hours average load and 2.5 hours of peak load, determine the volume of pondage to be provided to supply the daily demand. [20] 3. Following is the record of average yearly ow in a river for 15 years. If the available head is 16 m, construct the ow-duration curve and power-duration curve for the river. S.No Year Flow (cumecs) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 925 890 1070 1125 700 735 870

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of the joint may be assumed to be 1020 kg/cm2 and 85 per cent respectively. Calculate the approximate wall thickness of the penstock required. [10+10] 5. What is meant by the celerity of wave in power canals? Derieve an expression for the same. [20] 6. (a) What is a turbine and what are the various types of turbine? Discuss. (b) What do you mean by inward and outward ow turbine? Give few examples for each case. [10+10] 7. What do you understand by governing of hydraulic turbine? Explain with sketches the working of an oil pressure governor. [20] 8. (a) What are the various ways of locating of underground power stations? (b) What are the limitations of underground power house?

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD B.Tech (CCC) IV Year Examinations February 2011 HYDRO POWER ENGINEERING (Civil Engineering) Time: 3 Hours Answer Any Five Questions All Questions Carry Equal Marks --1. A run-of-steam station with an installed capacity of 15, 000 kW operates at 15% load factor when it serves as a peak load station. What should be the lowest discharge in the stream so that the station may serve as the base load station? It is given that the plant efficiency is 75% when working under a head of 20 m. Also calculate the maximum load factor of the plant when discharge in the stream rises to 20 cumec. [20] A run-off-river hydroelectric power station is proposed across a river at a site where a net head of 25 m is available on the turbine. The river carries a sustained minimum flow of 30 m3/sec in dry weather and behind the power station sufficient pondage is provided to supply daily peak load of demand with a load factor of 71%. Assuming the plant efficiency of 56.4%, determine the maximum generating capacity of the generator to be installed at the power house. If the daily load pattern indicated 21.5 hours average load and 2.5 hours of peak load, determine the volume of pondage to be provided to supply the daily demand. [20] It is contemplated to develop a run-off-river plant on a river. The variation of discharge with head was recorded as follows. Plot the power duration curve. Discharge (cumec) 100 180 215 260 325 370 460 600 700 Head (m) 13.0 12.0 11.75 11.5 11.25 11.0 10.0 9.5 9.25 [20] 4. What is meant by economical diameter of a penstock? How can it be found out? [20] A Penstock Pipe, 750 m long, takes off from A reservoir and feeds water to a turbine, the level of which is 220 m below the reservoir water level. The first 250 m length of the penstock has a cross sectional area of 5 m2 and the rest has an area of 3 m2. The steady state discharge is 9 m3/s. If the turbine gates are closed in a period of 4.5 seconds completely at a uniform rate, what would be the water hammer pressure developing? Use Allievi charts and neglect the friction effects. Assume the wave velocity to be 1000 m/s. [20] Max.Marks:100

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Design a pelton wheel for a head of 80 m and speed 300 rpm. The pelton wheel develops 103 kW shaft power. Take Cv = 0.98, speed ratio = 0.45 and overall efficiency = 0.8. [20] What do you mean by characteristics curves of turbines. How they are useful. Describe constant head characteristic curves with the help of a neat sketch. A model of a turbine 0.3 m diameter when running at 900 rpm under a head of 12 m gane the following results: Percentage Gate Opening 40 60 80 Output power kW 8.38 13.24 17.5 The actual turbine is required to develop 7360kW at 85% head of 35 m. assuming same efficiency at corresponding mode land actual turbines find: i) Diameter and speed of actual turbine and ii) Output of actual turbine at 50% gate is opening. 100 19.71 gate opening under a gate opening for the

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD B.Tech (CCC) IV Year Examinations January 2010 HYDROPOWER ENGINEERING (CIVIL ENGINEERING) Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks :100 Answer Any Five Questions All Questions Carry Equal Marks --1.a) What are the various sources of energy for generation of power? b) How would you estimate water power potential? 2.

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What do you understand by run-off-river plants? What are the parts and arrangements of such plants? Draw a neat sketch of the plant and explain. [20]

3.a) Describe the basic features of the pumped storage power plant. b) A closed cycle pumped storage power plant with a gross head of 350 m, has a head race tunnel 4 m dia and 700 m long. The powerhouse discharges directly in the lower reservoir. The flow velocity is 6.5 m/s and the friction factor f = 0.018. If the overall efficiencies of pumping and generation are 85 % and 88% respectively, estimate the plant efficiency. [10+10] 4.a) Explain with sketches, spherical valves and butterfly valves used in hydro electric installation. b) What are the various advantages offered by the buried penstock? [10+10] 5. A rectangular channel sides 2.50 m high and conveys water at a depth of 1.6 m at a velocity of 1.9 m/s. The channel is 1200 m long. If the flow is suddenly stopped by closing a gate at the downstream end of the channel, determine whether the water will spill over the side as a consequence of surge produced. Find also the interval of time required for the surge to reach upstream end of the channel. [20]

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The three-jet Pelton turbine is required to generate 10,000 kW under a net head of 400 m. The blade angle at outlet is 150 and the reduction in the relative velocity while passing over the blade is 5 %. If the overall efficiency of the wheel is 80%, Cv = 0.98 and speed ratio = 0.46, then find: a) The diameter of the jet. b) Total flow in m3/s and c) The force exerted by a jet on the buckets. If the jet ratio is not to be less than 01, find the speed of the wheel for a frequency of 50 Hertz/sec and the corresponding wheel diameter. [20]

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7.a) Explain why the draft tube is to be provided in reaction turbines. Also describe the draft tube theory. b) Calculate the value of Thomas Cavitation parameter for a Kaplan turbine having nondimensional specific speed of 19.36 and suction specific speed of 17.6. [10+10] 8. Explain in detail about the unit bay, loading bay and control bay of the super structure. [20] ******

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD B.Tech (CCC) IV Year Supplementary Examinations July/August - 2010 HYDRO POWER ENGINEERING (Civil Engineering) Time: 3 Hours Answer Any Five Questions All Questions Carry Equal Marks --Max.Marks:100

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Explain in detail about load curve and load duration curve. Explain in detail about Firm Power and Secondary Power.

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What do you mean by anchor block? Explain in detail various ways of design of the anchor blocks. [20] What do you understand by water hammer in pipe line? Derive the expression for the water hammer pressure in case of a rigid pipe and in case of an elastic pipe. [20] What are the various ways of classifying turbines? Explain. Define hydraulic efficiency, mechanical efficiency, volumetric efficiency and overall efficiency. [20] Describe model testing of turbines and its purpose. A model of Francis turbine, one fifth of full size, develops 3KW at 306rpm under a head of 1.77m. Find the speed and power of full size turbine operating under a head of 5.7m if the efficiency of the model and the full size turbine are same. [20] Explain Hydraulic, Electric and miscellaneous equipment required in the layout of the power house. Discuss the general arrangement of hydroelectric units in the power house. [20]

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD R05 IV B.Tech. (CCC) Supplementary Examinations June 2009 HYDRO POWER ENGINEERING (Civil Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 100 Answer any FIVE Questions. All Questions carries equal marks. ----1. How are the load factor, capacity factor and utilization factor interrelated? What is the significance of diversity factor? [20] 2. Make a neat sketch of a hydropower plant and show clearly the various elements. Also explain the purpose for which they are provided. [20] Describe the basic features of the pumped storage power plant A closed cycle pumped storage power plant with a gross head of 350 m, has a head race tunnel 4 m dia and 700 m long. The Powerhouse discharges directly in the lower reservoir. The flow velocity is 6.5 m/s and the friction factor f = 0.018. If the overall efficiencies of pumping and generation are 85 % and 88 % respectively, estimate the plant efficiency. [10+10] What are the various ways of classifying penstocks? Describe each of them with neat sketches. [20] A rectangular channel has sides 2.50 m high and conveys water at a depth of 1.6 m at a velocity of 1.9 m/s. The channel is 1200 m long. If the flow is suddenly stopped by closing a gate at the downstream end of the channel, determine whether the water will spill over the side as a consequence of surge produced. Find also the interval of time required for the surge to reach the upstream end of the channel [20] Design a Pelton wheel, which is required to develop 2000 hp, when working under a head of 160 m at a speed of 420 rpm. The overall efficiency may be taken as 85 % and assume other data required. [20] A Kaplan turbine working under a head of 15 m develops 7357.5 kW shaft power. The outer diameter of the runner is 4 m and hub diameter 2m. The guide blade angle at the extreme edge of the runner is 30. The hydraulic and overall efficiencies of the turbine are 90% and 85% respectively. If the velocity of whirl is zero at outlet, determine: (i) Runner vane angles at inlet and outlet at the extreme edge of the runner and speed of the turbine. [20] Explain in detail about the unit bay, loading bay and control bay of the super structure. [20]
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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD B.Tech (CCC) IV Year Supplementary Examinations July/August - 2010 HYDRO POWER ENGINEERING (Civil Engineering) Time: 3 Hours Answer Any Five Questions All Questions Carry Equal Marks --Max.Marks:100

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Explain in detail about load curve and load duration curve. Explain in detail about Firm Power and Secondary Power.

What do you understand by run-off-river plants? What are the parts and arrangements of such plants? Draw a neat sketch the plant and explain. [20] Discuss in detail, relative merits of two-unit and three-unit arrangement. Explain how flow duration curves are constructed.

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What do you mean by anchor block? Explain in detail various ways of design of the anchor blocks. [20] What do you understand by water hammer in pipe line? Derive the expression for the water hammer pressure in case of a rigid pipe and in case of an elastic pipe. [20] What are the various ways of classifying turbines? Explain. Define hydraulic efficiency, mechanical efficiency, volumetric efficiency and overall efficiency. [20] Describe model testing of turbines and its purpose. A model of Francis turbine, one fifth of full size, develops 3KW at 306rpm under a head of 1.77m. Find the speed and power of full size turbine operating under a head of 5.7m if the efficiency of the model and the full size turbine are same. [20] Explain Hydraulic, Electric and miscellaneous equipment required in the layout of the power house. Discuss the general arrangement of hydroelectric units in the power house. [20]

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