Hydropower plants: generating and pumping units
Summary
Master Lecture on the layouts, compenents and operating principles of hydropower plants and hydroelectric units for generation and pumping.
Content
- Introduction to hydropower and statistics
- Operating principles, power balance and energy losses
- Layout and characteristics of hydropower plants: storage and run-of-the river power plants
- Layout and characteristics of pumped-storage hydropower plants
- Design and control of generating and pumping units
- Turbines and Pumps hydraulic Characteristics
- Sustainability of hydropower technology
Keywords
Hydropower plant, hydraulic turbine, storage pump and pump-turbine
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Introduction to electrical engineering, Physics
Conversion d'énergie
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Assess / Evaluate characteristics and operation of a hydropower Plant
- Select appropriately components and control systems of generating or pumping unit
- Assess / Evaluate the power production and sustainability standards compliance
Transversal skills
- Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
- Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
Teaching methods
ex cathedra lectures with working case studies and exercices
Expected student activities
attendance at lectures completing exercises and reading written material
Assessment methods
written exam
Resources
Ressources en bibliothèque
Notes/Handbook
slides handout
Moodle Link
Prerequisite for
Electromechanical conversion
master project
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Hydropower plants: generating and pumping units
- Courses: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Hydropower plants: generating and pumping units
- Courses: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Hydropower plants: generating and pumping units
- Courses: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Hydropower plants: generating and pumping units
- Courses: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional