hydropower Articles

The National Power Corporation (NPC), the largest provider and generator of electricity in the Philippines, is saving over $350,000 a year in improved efficiency, downtime and maintenance costs following the installation of the Scalewatcher® computerized, electronic, water-conditioner from Scalewatcher North America.  Installed in the ...

The environmental impacts are commonly quantified in the EIA studies by rating, ranking and scaling. The National EIA Guidelines, 1993, Nepal provides a guideline to score the impacts in terms of magnitude, extent, and duration. This step is commonly known as impact prediction in the EIA process. The predicted scores are multiplied by the ...

Small spots of motor oil on your driveway look tacky enough. Leaks of hydraulic oil from the hydro turbine of a big pumped-storage plant are not only more noticeable, but they also could end up in the facility's sump or in its reservoir, as well. At the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project in New York's Catskill Mountains, there's another ...

Constant demands for water and electricity in heavily populated areas in California prompted the Devil Canyon Power Plant project. Constructed from 1969 to 1974, the power plant is located at the San Bernardino Mountains near the mouth of Devil Canyon. With two pipelines carrying water from Silverwood Lake, an elevation drop of almost 1500 ft (460 ...

In 2001, through a multi-ministry cabinet submission, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) assumed the leadership role for management of the provincial Hydrometric Network. As part of that agreement, MNR assumed the costs for the entire network including Ministry of the Environment (MOE) gauges and conservation authority gauges. Since then, MNR ...

Black & Veatch is the design and construction consultant for the world's largest roller-compacted concrete dam, which will be the world's fourth largest hydropower station and protect 12 million people from flooding. China must create urban infrastructure for the equivalent of the city of Houston, Texas, every month for the next 30 years to ...

An in-depth survey of Canadian Hydropower potential 1. BUSINESS CHALLENGE Interest in hydropower as a renewable energy source is on the rise. As part of an ongoing strategy to promote hydropower as a viable energy source, the Canadian Hydropower Association (CHA) identified the need to obtain an upto-date and accurate picture of hydropower ...

Background Removal of oil from water before the water is discharged into a river or other body of water is an important environmental goal. In order to accomplish this, a major hydropower producer in the southern United States contracted with HydroQuip, Inc.* for the supply of a state of the art oil/water separator. The power plant had ...

Leakwise* Oil Detection in Water Collection Sump Under Turbines Water carries oil leakage from turbine bearings and other leaking sources into a large sump, which is built under the turbines. In most plants, pumps installed at the bottom of the sump discharge the water directly to the river.  A Leakwise lD-221 Floating Oil Detector is ...