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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.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Basic equations governing energy transfer in turbines
- Turbine losses and efficiency (hydraulic, volumetric, and mechanical efficiencies)
- Similarity, specific speed (dimensionless and dimensional), scaling formulas
- Cavitation, Cavitation Index, Thoma’s Sigma, cavitation inception, turbine cavitation, cavitation and turbine setting, allowable setting (installation level) above tailwater for turbines to avoid cavitation
- Hydraulic components of a hydropower installation (intake, penstock, guide vanes or distributer, turbine, and draft tube)
- Typical shapes for casing and intake, and draft tube and their dimensions with respect to runner diameter
- Turbine Classification: impulse and reaction
- Degree of Reaction: definition, relation to velocity components at inlet to and outlet from runner
- Different impulse (Pelton, Turgo, and Banki) and reaction (Francis, and axial flow propellers (Kaplan, Tube, and Bulb)) turbines
- Operational characteristics of impulse and reaction turbines and their comparison
- Determination of the best turbine type (Impulse, Francis, or propeller) for a given application and finding various parameters (design constants) 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
