Course Information

Course Code:
Course Number:
Code Course Name Language Type
INS 448E Hydroelectric Power Plants English Elective
Local Credits ECTS Theoretical Tutorial Laboratory
2.5 4 2 1 0
Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction
Prerequisites INS 321 MIN DD
or INS 321E MIN DD
or CEV 232 MIN DD
or INS 361 MIN DD
or INS 361E MIN DD
or INS 360 MIN DD
or INS 360E MIN DD
Class Restriction None
Course Description
Introduction of water power plants, their components. Environmental effects of water power plants. Rainfall-runoff relations. Determination of installed capacity. Determination of project discharge of run-off the river plants. Determination of discharges and capacities of storage plants and reservoir operation. Energy losses. Water intake structures. Settling basins. Transmission with free surface flow. Duties and design of head ponds. Transmission with pressurized flow, surge tanks and their design. Mass oscillation motion. Compensation reservoirs. Penstocks and their design. Spillways and side weirs. Pelton, Francis and Kaplan turbines.