DR.

AKHILESH DAS GUPTA INSTITUTE

OF TECHNOLOGY &
MANAGEMENT

GUIDED BY:- PRESENTEDBY:-

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 PRESENTATION ON
HYDRO POWER PLANT

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 CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF HYDRO POWER PLANT
• WORKING
• SCOPE OF HYDRO POWER PLANT IN INDIA
• CASE STUDY: 1)TEHRI DAM
2)BHAKRA NANGAL DAM
• TOP 10 COUNTRIES IN HYDRO POWER PLANT
• SIGNIFICANCE
• DRAWBACKS

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 INTRODUCTION

• Hydro Power Plant was invented by H.F. Rogers

• What is a Hydro Power Plant?

• In Hydro Power Plant the water is utilized to move the

turbines which in turn run the electric generator’s.

• Potential Energy Kinetic Energy Electrical Energy

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ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF HYDRO
POWER PLANT

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LAYOUT OF A POWER PLANT

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• Due to its diverse
topography , India has
been a dominant player
in global power
development.

• It is the 7th largest

producer of hydroelectric
power in the world .as of
April 2017,india’s installed
utility scale hydroelectric
capacity was 44594 MW
or 13.5 % of its total power
generation capacity .
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 The Tehri dam on India’s
Bhagirathi river is one of the
world’s largest and most
controversial hydroelectric
project

Construction began in 1978

and completion of the final
phase was In 2006.

• Type: Embankment Earth fill

dam
• Height: 260.5m
• Crest width: 20m
• Base width: 1128m
• Length: 575m 9
• Tehri is situated in the highly active central Himalayan seismic zone and
it is designed to withstand an earthquake of 7.2 richer scale

• Provides power to Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab, Delhi, Jammu &

Kashmir, Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

• Volumetric capacity: 3.2

lakh acre feet
• Total surface area: 20
square miles
• Turbine: Francis
• Generation Capacity:
2000MW/day
• Irrigation to 2,70,000
hectares of land.
• Provides 270 million
gallons of drinking water
per day to Uttranchal,
Uttar Pradesh & Delhi
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 The Bhakra nangal dam on
India’s Satluj river is second
largest dam ini india after
tehri dam. Situated on the
border of himachal Pradesh
and punjab

Construction began in 1948

and it was completed and
inaugurated by our first prime
minister jawahar lal Nehru in
1963.

• Type: Straight Gravity dam

• Height: 226.26m
• Crest width: 9.1m
• Base width: 191m
• Length: 520m
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• Provides irrigation to 10 millionareas of field in Haryana Punjab rajasthan and
Punjab
• It cosists of two dams Bhakra(situate at border of Himachal ) and
Nangal(situated at the border of Punjab ) both are situated at a distance of
10 km
• If obe fails another can hold the water but in case if both fails many towns in
lower region of Punjab will be under water.
Area 166 km sq
Reservoir can hold 9 billion
cubic meter.
It has four flood control gates
with a max design discharge at
1997300 cubic meter per
second.

The large reservoir created

displaced a large population
from the district of bilaspur .
About 371 villages were
submerged.

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SIGNIFICANCE
• It is renewable.
• Source of clean energy.
• Stable and reliable.
• Requires low operating cost.
• Matches current demand.
• Plant efficiency does not change with time.
• No fuel transportation is required.
• Flood control and irrigation purposes.
• Does not emit green house gases.

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DRAWBACKS
• The initial cost of the power plant is very high.
• Takes long time for construction of the dam.
• Losses will be more.
• Power generation only dependent on natural phenomenon.
• May cause droughts.
• Causes environmental damage.
• Flood in lower areas.

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REFERENCE:
• Tehri dam project report by A.K Dabe
• IRN (International river Network) fact sheet :October
2002
• Hydropower Development in India (Sector Assessment)
by K.Ramanathan & P.Abeygunawardena

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