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Water - Power Stations and Pumped - Storage Power Stations - Project Assignment

Water - Power Stations and Pumped - Storage Power Stations - Project Assignment
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Faculty Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering
Department Hydraulic, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Lead Lecturer Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Dimitar Kisliakov

The course project in WPP and PSPP consists of the following parts: selection of turbine and generator equipment for a WPP, construction of the operational hill charts for the turbine, analysis of the waterhammer and the unit runaway due to its emergency shut-down, dimensioning of a continuous reinforced beam of the gantry crane in the powerhouse, preliminary dynamic analysis of the generator foundation. Two laboratory exercises are also carried out: demonstration of the operation modes of WPP and PSPP, and recording of part of the hill chart of a Pelton turbine.