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Department of Water Resource and Environmental Engineering

Tutorial problems -2

1. In a pumped-storage scheme, water is supplied to a single turbine through a 200 m long, 2m

diameter penstock line. The power plant uses two centrifugal pumps to pump water back to the
upper reservoir, using the same penstock pipeline. Basic data are as follows. Pumps (2 nos.),
rated capacity_6MW each, efficiency of pump_87%, efficiency of pump motor_85%; turbine (1
no), installed capacity_25MW, efficiency of turbine_91%, efficiency of generator_89%;
Penstock pipeline, length_200m, diameter_2m, Manning’s n_0.015, gross head above tail water
level_115m.
Determine
1. The maximum discharge rate per pump,
2. The maximum discharge to the turbine and
3. The overall efficiency of the system if all the water used by the turbine is pumped back to the
upper reservoir.

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