INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA Department of Rural Engineering

ASSIGNMENT
Subject: Hydropower & Pumping Station
Submitted to lecturer, Dr. DOUNG RATHA
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ID: e20130728
Group: I4-GRU B

2016-2017
Institute of Technology of Cambodia Hydropower &Pumping Station
Department of Rural Engineering

Assignment (Hydropower and Pumping Station)

I. Instruction
‐ This assignment to be solved by everyone. It is an individual work.
‐ The score will be used as final score for Pumping station subject
‐ You must finish this assignment and submit both in print (hard copy by giving it to
secretary) and pdf (soft copy by giving it to your class Major) by Sunday 18, 2017
before 5PM. Missing or late submit will be given 0 point for your final grade.
‐ The questions and problem to be answered and solved are in section II bellow.

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II. Questions & Problem:

1. What did you learn from EBARA workshop 8‐9 June, 2017? What are new things
aside in class (pumping station) lecture? (10pt)

2. Explain clearly the various methods to control flow rate and compare their electrical
consumptions in water pumping system (which method is more efficiency? more
economic?) (20pt)

3. A centrifugal pump has the characteristics shown in table below. It is used lift water
between two reservoirs with a difference of elevation 0.5 m as shown in figure
below as well. The pipe connecting the reservoirs has diameter of 150 mm and is 800 m
long. The friction factor is assumed to be 0.01. The pipeline includes four standard
elbows and three gate valves. The entrance and exit are sharp. (30pt)

a) Plot the characteristic curves including the system curves

b) Determine the rate of flow delivered by the pump

c) What is the power required?

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Note: Do as what you understand, NO further questions, No further CLUE.

GOOD
LUCK

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Department of Rural Engineering

Hydropower and Pumping Station

1. What I have learned from EBARA workshop are Classification of Pump, Determination of
pump requirement, Essential of Pump Technology and Cavitation, Application in Water Work,
Operation & Control of Water Work Pump, Comparison of Energy Consumption, and Water
Supply Pump Unit. Throughout the explaination of each point from the lecturers of the short
course I come to know a lot of new knowledge about pump and I think that it is really
impotance for me to learn this short course for 2 days. Moreover the new thing aside in class
lecture that I haved learned are:
 Various classification of Pumps and its usage
 Pump Technologies and Installation,
 Pump Effeciency and Using power in economic way
 Method of Saving energy and reduction of cavitation
 Effectiveness off Parallel system and series pump system
 Choosing effective pump
 Pump features

2. Controlling the discharge capacity with the number of pumps requires two or more pumps
installed in parallel. The number of operating pumps is changed in accordance with demand.
 Determining the appropriate number of pumps that can accommodate the max. and the
min. demand is important for adopting discharge capacity control with the number of
pumps.
 Even when discharge capacity control with the number of pumps has already been
adopted, changing the trigger values to change the number of operating pumps may
contribute to energy savings.
When 2 pumps are used
The figure below shows that when a high discharge capacity in needed, using a high-
capacity pump (broken line) achieves high efficiency, whereas when the required discharge
capacity is small, using two pumps can achieve high efficiency.

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Department of Rural Engineering

3.

When three pumps are used

Comparison of power consumption in 8 hours by the number of pumps:

One high-capacity Two low-capacity Three low-capacity

pump pumps pumps
（φ150 mm） （φ125 mm） （φ100 mm）

Power consumption at 403.2 256.8 228.0

1 m3/min

Power consumption at 483.2 344.8 455.2

2 m3/min

Power consumption at
566.4 614.4 683.2
3 m3/min

Total 1,452.8 1,216.0 1,366.4

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Department of Rural Engineering

3. A centrifugal pump has the characteristics shown in table below. It is used lift water between
two reservoirs with a difference of elevation 0.5 m as shown in figure below as well. The pipe
connecting the reservoirs has diameter of 150 mm and is 800 m long. The friction factor is
assumed to be 0.01. The pipeline includes four standard elbows and three gate valves. The
entrance and exit are sharp. (30pt)
a) Plot the characteristic curves including the system curves
b) Determine the rate of flow delivered by the pump
c) What is the power required?

Solution
a) Plot the characteristic curves including the system curves

Pipe Characteristics

Discharge (L/s) 0 5 10 15 20 25

Head (m) 22 20 16.7 12.5 7.6 2

Efficiency (%) 0 44 60 63 53 1

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Department of Rural Engineering

Given fitting loss coefficients, K:

Pipe entrance 0.5 Pipe exit 1

Standard elbow 0.3 Gate Valve 0.1

We have hL  h friction  hlocal

L V2
And, h friction  h f  
D 2g

V2 V2 V2 V2
hlocal  hentrance  helbow  hgatevalve  hexit  K entrance  4K elbow  3K gatevalve  K exit
2g 2g 2g 2g

 H  ha  h f  hentrance  helbow  hgatevalve  hexit

L V2 V2 V2 V2 V2
 ha    K entrance  K elbow  4 K gatevalve  K exit
D 2g 2g 2g 2g 2g
V2  L 
 ha     K entrance  4 K elbow  3K gatevalve  K exit 
2g  D 
Q
But V 
A

Q2  L 
 H  ha     K entrance  4 K elbow  3K gatevalve  K exit 
   D 
2

2 gD 4  
4
Q2  800 
 0.5  2 
0.01   0.5  4  0.3  3  0.1  1
  0.15 
2  9.81  (0.15) 4
16
 0.5  9194.36304 Q 2

Thus H  0.5  9194.36304  Q 2

Pump characteristics

Discharge (l/s) 0 5 10 15 20 25

Discharge (m3/s) 0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025

Head (m) 22 20 16.7 12.5 7.6 2

Efficiency (%) 0 44 60 63 53 1

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System characteristics

Ha (m) 5 5 5 5 5 5

Hf (lateral) (m) 0.000 0.218 0.871 1.961 3.485 5.446

hentrance (m) 0.000 0.002 0.008 0.018 0.033 0.051

hexit (m) 0.000 0.004 0.016 0.037 0.065 0.102

helbow (m)  3 0.000 0.005 0.020 0.044 0.078 0.123

hgate valve (m)  4 0.000 0.001 0.005 0.011 0.020 0.031

H (m) 5.000 5.230 5.920 7.071 8.681 10.752

b) Determine the rate of flow delivered by the pump

According to the graph above we choose the operating point of the pump which is the
intersect point between Pump Characteristic and System Characteristic and then the flow
rate can be determined:
Q =19 l/s

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c) Determine the power required

By the formula:
 Q H
P  0.163  that
p

  1,
Q  19 l / s  1.14 m 3 / min
H  8.5 m
 p  58%  0.58

 Q H 1 1.14  8.5

 P  0.163   0.163   2.723 kWh
p 0.58

Thus: P = 2.723 kWh

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