Power Plant Engineering

Chapter 11 : Hydro-Electric Power Plants
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11.1 Introduction
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11.2 Run-Off
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11.3 Hydrograph and Flow Duration Curve
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347
11.4 The Mass Curve
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11.5 Selection of Site for a Hydro-Electric Power Plant
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11.6 Essential Features of a Water-Power Plant
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11.7 Calculations of Water Power Plants
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11.8 Classification of Hydro-Plant
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11.8.1 Storage Plants
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11.8.2 Run-of-River Power Plants
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11.8.3 Pumped Storage Power Plants
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354
11.9 Power House and Turbine Setting
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11.9.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Underground Power-House
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11.10 Prime-Movers
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11.11 Specific Speed of Turbine
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11.12 Draft Tubes
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11.12.1 Methods to Avoid Cavitation
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11.12.2 Types of Draft Tubes
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375
11.12.3 Different Types of Draft Tubes
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11.13 Models and Model Testing
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11.14 Selection of Turbine
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Chapter 12 : Electrical System
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12.1 Introduction
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12.2 Generators and Motors
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12.2.1 Rotors
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12.2.2 Stators
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12.2.3 Ventilation
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12.2.4 Hight-Voltage Generators
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12.3 Transformers
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12.3.1 Constructional Parts
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12.3.2 Core Constructions
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12.3.3 Windings
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12.4 Cooling of Transformers
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12.4.1 Simple Cooling
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12.4.2 Mixed Cooling
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12.4.3 Natural Oil Cooling
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12.4.4 Forced Oil Cooling
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12.4.5 Internal Cooling
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12.5 Bus-Bar
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12.5.1 Single Bus-Bar System
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12.5.2 Single Bus-Bar System with Sectionalisation
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12.5.3 Duplicate Bus-Bar System
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12.6 Busbar Protection
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12.6.1 Differential Protection
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12.6.2 Fault Bus Protection
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