EVEREST ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(AFFILIATED TO POKHARA UNIVERSITY)

SANEPA, LALITPUR

REPORT ON

EDUCATIONAL FIELD VISIT FOR HYDROPOWER ENGINEERING

SUBMITTED BY

AMRIT RAWAT

SUBMITTED TO

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

EVEREST ENGINEERING COLLEGE

SANEPA, LALITPUR

10 Jan,2023
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my sincere gratitude towards the Department of Civil Engineering
EVEREST ENGINEERING COLLEGE ,for providing opportunity to take part in the
Hydropower field visit.

I would like to put my sincere gratitude to our teachers Er.Nischal Aryal , Er. Aditya Gautam,
and Er.Prakash Thapa sir for guiding us throughout our visiting period. The visit was conducted
at the various Hydro Power Project around pokhara area and tanahun area.

I also express my gratitude to all the staff of those Hydropower project plan dam site as well as
the power house for their great hospitality and answering all the queries without any hesitation .

At last, thankful towards my all the friends and people who have helped directly or indirectly in
the successful completion of this project.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents Page No

PAGE 1

1.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………… …01

1.2 Objectives……………………………………………………………………..01
1.3 Field visit area……………………………………………………………….. .01
1.4 Components of Hydropower in Nepal …………………………………… .…02
1.5 Status of Hydropower in Nepal …………………………………………..…...02

PAGE 2 : Trip Schedule

2.1 Day 1……………………………………………………………………..03

2.2 Day 2…………………………………………………………….. ……...03
2.3 Day 3………………………………………………………………….…03

PAGE 3 : SETI HYDROPOWER PROJECT

3.1 Introduction……………………………………………………………... 04
3.2 salient features of Seti Hydropower Project……………………………. 04
3.3 some picture of Seti Hydropower Project ………………………………05

PAGE 4 : PHEWA HYDROPOWER PROJECT

4.1 Introduction……………………………………………………..…..….05
4.2 salient features of phewa hydropower project ……………………...….06
4.3 some picture of phewa hydropower project ……………………………07

PAGE 5 : TANAHU HYDROPOWER PROJECT

5.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………….08

5.2some picture of Tanahu Hydropower Project ………………………….10

PAGE 6 : REFERENCES……………………………………….. LIST OF FIGURES

Fig 1: Seti Hydropower Station Office……………………………………….04

Fig 2 : Seti Hydropower Station site…………………………………………...04

Fig 3 : Turbine connection system of Seti Hydropower Station……………….06

Fig 4 : Phewa Hydropower Station ……………………………………………06

Fig 5 : Tanahu Hydropower Station Site ……………………………………….9

Fig 6 : Main Access Tunnel for powerhouse ……………………………….. 10

Fig 7 : Under construction under ground powerhouse…………………………10

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1.1 Introduction
Hydropower is a power generated through flowing fluid(water ) . The hydraulic energy
like pressure, kinetic and potential are used to rotate mechanical device through turbine
and the electricity is generated with rotating shaft and generator. Energy can be
generated by coal , petroleum product, solar ,wind and water . Fossil source are limited
quantity and are not reusable . Non fossil source are unlimited consumption and reusable
.Water is non fossil source of energy. In the context of Nepal , a hydropower scheme
with a installed capacity of less than 100 kw is classified as micro hydropower . scheme
in the range 100 kw to 1000kw are classified as mini hydropower .Micro
hydropower(MH) plants have played an important role in electricity rural villages in
Nepal . There is local material and local peoples are investigating for the construction of
micro hydropower plant . so, micro hydropower is very suitable and better for our
country .

1.2 Objectives

• To study about the head work and intake components.

• To know about the gravel trap and intake components.
• To watch the power production processes in powerhouse.
• To know about types of turbine.

1.3 Field visit Area

Mainly during the trip, we visited three places to enhance the knowledge of
Hydropower projects.
• Seti hydropower project , nadipur -3 , pokhara and tanahun.
1.4 Components of micro hydropower project
Although among mentioned hydropower project site are different, all of the
mentioned project required different dimensions to convey the stream water to the
power generation units and back into the stream . These components are follows:
• Headworks
• intake
• settling basin
• fore bay
• crossings
• Gravel Trap
• anchor block
• diversion weir
• penstocks
• power house
• tail and head race
 • spillway

1.5 Status of Hydropower in Nepal

Nepal's electricity consumption is among the lowest in the world. A number of large
scale hydro power projects are currently under construction. Governmental policies
have stressed the potential for micro hydro schemes to provide economically
productive mechanical and electrical services for the people living in the hilly
regions. Although the country has the potential of generating 43,000 megawatts of
hydropower . Only 1200 megawatts have been developed thus far . The government
has put into place a number of legal and institutional provisions to encourage
hydropower development . These provisions have been successful in legalizing and
standardizing the facilities ,subsidies and co operation to be provided to the private
sector . This strategy has been adopted to ensure that smaller schemes come on line
at regular intervals and provided a better match between growths of supply and
demand . in the mid 1990s , the government reinstated the policy of providing a
direct subsidy of 50% ( in remote mountain region, 75%) for electricyal components
used in micro hydro systems . This subsidy is equivalent to about 20% of the total
cost,which is typically $1,600 per kilowatt. Credit is also available for micro hydro
schemes from the Agricultural Development Bank of Nepal, including a line of credit
available for rural development from the Asian Development Bank(NEA,2016).
 PAGE 2 : TRIP SCHEDULE

2.1 DAY 1
We started our journey from the college and 3 big buses were managed for around
109 people which was more than comfortable . we moved towards pokhara around
11 AM from college and we did our lunch around 1PM . In , day 1 we planned to see
tanahu hydropower project which was on the way to pokhara but we cant because of
time crisis and on going blasting on project area . so , we moved towards pokhara
directly and reached lakeside and everyone stayed there on hotel.

2.2 Day 2
Everyone gathered together around 9:30 AM for moving towards seti hydropower
project. On the way , we were enjoying the natural view of Himalayan Range such as
machhapuchhre, Dhaulagiri ,Annapurna etc. Around at 11AM we reached at seti
hydropower, headworks and all the components of headworks were watched .

2.3 Day 3
Everyone gathered together around 8 AM for moving towards Tanahu hydropower
project . it was a very cold cloudy day so we reached the site of tanahu around 11
AM and after reaching out there almost around 3 hours we looked different
underconstruction work of Tahanu hydropower site .
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3.1 Seti Hydropower Project

Seti Hydropower Station is a run of river type with installed capacity of 1.5 MW and design
generation of 9.8 GWh consisting of 3 units each 0.5 MW. It is located at Nadipur, Pokhara and
was commissioned in 1985 AD with assistance from Government of People’s Republic of China
and Government of Nepal. The power canal for this power station is jointly used for irrigation
purposes looked after by Department of Irrigation and hence, the operation of this power station
is affected by irrigation as well. The cumulative generation of Seti HPS has reached 254.77 GWh
till 2011/12 from its first run. The station has generated 11.62 GWh in FY 2010/11 and 10.41
GWh in FY 2011/12 with decrease of 10.37%. The station contributed 0.25% of the total energy
in the INPS in 2011/12.
3.2 Silent features of seti hydropower project

Hydrology ( Intake )

Maximum Net Head 22.5 m

Waterways

Penstock- Length 90m

Penstock-Diameter 2.4m

Total Length of Waterways 7.7 km

Turbine

Type Horizontal Francis

Number of Units 3

Rated Capacity 543kW

Generators

Rated Capacity 625kVA

Power Factor 0.8

Transformers

Number of Units
2 (650 kVA, 6.3/11kV)
3.3 Some Pictures of Seti Hydropower Project

Fig 1: Seti Hydropower Station Office

 Fig 2 : Seti Hydropower Station Site

Fig 3 : Turbine connection system of Seti Hydropower Station

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4.1 Phewa hydropower project

Phewa hydropower station is a canal drop type power station having an installed capacity of 1.0
MW and located at Pardi, Birauta, Pokhara with an annual design generation of 6.5 GWh. It
consists of 4 units each 0.25 MW. It was commissioned in 1969 AD and developed jointly by
Government of India and Government of Nepal. The public encroachment of power canal
leading to powerhouse is a concern for normal operation regardless of the availability of
generating units.
Hydrology ( Intake )

Maximum Net Head 74.68 m

Waterways

Total Length of Waterways 1 km

Turbine

Type Horizontal Francis

Number of Units 4
Transformers

4.2 Silent features of phewa hydropower project

Number of Units
4

4.3 Some pictures of Phewa Hydropower Project

CHAPTER 5

5.1 Tanahu Hydropower Project

Tanahu Hydropower Limited (THL) was established as a subsidiary company of Nepal

Electricity Authority (NEA) on 25 March 2012 to develop Tanahu Hydropower Project
(previously known as Upper Seti Hydropower Project). The Project site is situated 150 km west
of Kathmandu on Seti River near Damauli of Tanahu District in Gandaki Provionce. The overall
management of THL is entrusted to the Board of Directors, headed by the Managing Director of
NEA.

The Project is storage type hydropower project with installed capacity of 140 MW and an
estimated average annual energy generation of 587.7 GWh (Years 1-10) and 489.9 GWh (Year
11 onwards). The total project cost is estimated at $505 million including Rural Electrification,
taxes, duties, interest charges during implementation and contingencies.

The company also envisages developing Lower Seti (Tanahu) Hydropower Project at the lower
reaches of Seti River, i.e. downstream of the Tanahu Hydropower Project (THP). It is envisaged
as the integrated system of THP which will be utilizing its releases with about six hours of
peaking capability during dry season.
5.2 Some pictures of Tanahu Hydropower Project

Fig 5 : Tanahu Hydropower Station Site

Fig 6 : Main Access Tunnel for powerhouse

Fig 7 : Under construction under ground Powerhouse
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REFERENCES

1.https://www.nwrmap.info

2.Fundamentals of HYDOPOWER ENGINEERING ,Er.Sanjeeb Baral

3.Garg (2012) , Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulics structures