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POKHARA UNI VERSI TY

Level: Bachelor Semester Fall Year : 2012
Programme: BE Full Marks: 100
Course: Water Resources Engineering II Pass Marks: 45
Time : 3hrs.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Attempt all the questions.

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a) Describe the importance of the micro hydro power plant in the
present contest of Nepal.
b) The average annual yield of a river at a dam site 210
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ha-m. The
entire yield is used for power generation, estimate the water power
potential and the available energy. The average net heat is 100m. take
overall efficiency as 90%
c) Name 5 large hydropower plants of Nepal with their installed
capacities.
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2.
a) Design a Stilling basin for the spillway, if the height of the crest
above downstream bed level = 30m, discharge=80m3/sec, width of
canal=10m,coefficient of discharge (cd =0.7),downstream bed
slope(i)=1:500, and mannings roughness coefficient (n)=0.016.
b) What is an emergency spillway? Explain cavitations phenomena on
the spillway.
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3.
For the non overflow section of a concrete dam. given in the figure, check
stability against overturning, sliding & material failure at heel & toe of the
dam assuming the following data;
unit wt. of the sediment= 25KN/m
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unit wt. of the concrete= 24KN/m
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Allowable compressive stress in foundation= 5000KN/m
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Allowable compressive stress in concrete= 10000KN/m
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angle of friction between concrete & foundation= 35
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Unit shear resistance between foundation & dam= 600KN/m
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Angle of friction of sediment particles= 30
0

Assume free board as 5m
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4.
a) Differentiate between primary and secondary power with neat sketch.
b) A steel penstock pipe 500 m long with internal diameter 0.4m
supplies water at the rate of 1m3/sec with the static head of 100m.
Pressure wave velocity due to the dynamic surge pressure
development is 940m/s. Allowable design stress of the pipe material
is 1326 kgf/cm
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and joint efficiency 85%. Find the wall thickness of
the penstock pipe, if the gate closure time is 40 seconds.
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5.
a) What is reservoir sedimentation? What steps do you suggest to
control the reservoir sedimentation?
b) A RoR plant uses a mean head of 10m and generates 30MW. The
load factor of the installation is 40%. Determine the number, type,
specific speed and runner diameter of the turbine.
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6.
a) Describe the Run of River hydro plant with neat sketch. Also discuss
working principle of pumped storage hydro power plant.
b) Why it is necessary to remove the sediment of flow in hydro project?
Enumerate two most important functions of a forebay in hydropower
system.
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7.
Write short notes on any two:
a) Periodic and continuous flushing system
b) Draft Tube
c) Intake
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