Live support chatHydroelectric Power Plants 101 (Part 1)
In Hydroelectric Power Plants 101 (Part 1), you'll learn ...
- Hydropower as a renewable and clean source of energy
- Classification of hydropower plants based on their types and sizes
- Components, operation and maintenance of hydropower facilities
- Hydraulic turbine types, applications and operational characteristics
Overview
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Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 56 pages
Hydropower is renewable and clean, not leaving any waste behind. Hydropower is known for not producing greenhouse gasses or other air pollution.
While hydropower plants have no fuel cost, their construction and capital equipment costs (per unit of installed capacity), are substantially greater than thermal power plants. Hydropower facilities require minimal maintenance and less skilled personnel as compared to thermal power plants, therefore have lower operation and maintenance cost. There are other advantages for hydropower, especially for small units which can be more cost effective.
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals about hydroelectric power plants. After completing this course, you will have a good knowledge and understanding about hydroelectric power plant types, sizes, and their constituents, various hydraulic turbines and their design and specifications, as well as operation and maintenance of hydropower plants. You will be able to select the best turbine for a particular application and determine specifications, as well as rate an existing turbine for operation under different conditions.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the basic equations governing energy transfer in turbines.
- Describe turbine losses and hydraulic, volumetric, and mechanical efficiencies.
- Explain similarity, specific speed in dimensional and dimensionless forms, and scaling formulas.
- Describe cavitation, the cavitation index, Thoma’s sigma, cavitation inception, turbine cavitation, turbine setting, and allowable installation levels above tailwater for avoiding cavitation.
- Identify the hydraulic components of a hydropower installation, including the intake, penstock, guide vanes or distributor, turbine, and draft tube.
- Describe typical casing, intake, and draft-tube shapes and their dimensions relative to runner diameter.
- Distinguish between impulse and reaction turbine classifications.
- Explain the degree of reaction and its relationship to velocity components at the runner inlet and outlet.
- Identify impulse turbines, including Pelton, Turgo, and Banki turbines, and reaction turbines, including Francis, Kaplan, tube, and bulb turbines.
- Compare the operational characteristics of impulse and reaction turbines.
- Determine the best turbine type for a given application and identify design parameters for the selected turbine.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 56 pages
