UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA CIVIL

DEPARTAMENTO DE HIDRÁULICA

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES
CHALLENGE 4. VIDEO REVIEW
1rst SEMESTER 2022

GUIDELINES FOR CHALLENGE 4 DUE DATE: JULY 8, 2022 GRUPOS A-B (20 points)

Please watch carefully the video about Big, Bigger, Biggest Dam and answer the following
questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3J196bLP5E (National Geographic)

1. Which are the main leaps when building hydro projects?

Which of the previews leaps, do you think have most of hydroelectric projects and which not, in
Colombia?

2. Which was the motivation of Lord Armstrong to produce energy and what he did? Explain briefly
how was the beginning of the water electricity generation in the world.

3. Which was the motivation of France to impulse hydroelectricity generation at the beginning of the
first world war?

Crisis energetica causada por la invasión de la Alemania nazi

4. How many power houses have Three Georges Dam and how many turbines in total?

5. Which were the main reasons and challenges to build Three Gorges Dam ?

6. What problem happed in South Fork Dam in Johnstown and how it was solved in Grand Coulee
Dam and in Three Gorges Dam?

Efecto abrasivo,
Convertir el fondo del rio en una rampa de hormigón
Liberar de forma controlada mediante aliviaderos con rampas de hormigon lanzando el agua al aire

7. How the rivers were managed to build Mirage (Marage) dam and Three Gorges Dam?

8. How the navigation is allowed in the Krasnoyarsk Dam in Russia and in Three Gorges Dam in
China?
 Elevador de barcos mediante Plataforma de acero, liquido bajo presión, fuerza hidráulicas

Exclusa 5 hileras,

9. What were the environmental and technical problems upstream and downstream of Aswan High
Dam and Three Gorges Dam? How were they managed?

Se estanca el sedimento

Sistema de depuración, Explotar la fuerza de las crecientes para arrastra el sedimento rio abajo
10. For the following dams, seven included in the video and some more, fill the following table. You
may need to do some additional search in internet to complete the information. Try to do your best, but
perhaps, you do not find all the information requested for the dams.
(11 points)

Year of Dam High Power Turbine

Dam Country River Purpose
completion type (m) (MW) Type
Debdon
Mareges France Dordoña 1935 presa de 89.50 m 128
doble
curvatura
Hoover
Grand
Coulee
Krasnoyarsk
Aswan
Three
Gorges
Itaipu
Florida II
Salvajina
HidroItuango colombia cauca not completed 225

Thanks for your attention,

María Elvira Guevara