Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
ICAR/01 (HYDRAULICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2018 - 18/01/2019)
Lesson hours
23 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of hydraulics, hydrology, and, possibly, water turbines
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: Hydropower generation at local (Italy), and global scale; basic operating principles and computation of energy generation of the more common hydropower schemes; essentials of environmental impact of hydropower; essentials of water turbines; essentials of damming structures.
Applying knowledge and understanding: estimate of reservoir storage for different operating rules, assessment of the operating rule for given reservoir storage; estimate of the energy output for peak energy plants (reservoir, high head) and run-of-the-river plants (low/high head); preliminary design of water turbines (diameter and spinning speed of the runner) for given flow/head, and cavitation assessment for reaction turbines.
Course contents
Hydropower projects and related energy output, at local (Italy), and global scale; basics of hydropower development of a catchment (with specific reference to an Alpine catchment in Lombardy); basic operating principles and computation of energy generation of selected hydropower schemes (reservoir/high-head, run-of-the-river high and low-head); essentials of environmental impact of hydropower; essentials of water turbines; essentials of damming structures.
Teaching methods
Classroom lectures and exercises. Standard exercises supplied by the teacher. Solution of the problems by spreadsheets.
Classroom lessons are provided by the teacher.
Reccomended or required readings
Texts, exercises, websites, further scientific references (to support advanced research) are supplied by e-mail.
Assessment methods
Oral exam of approx. 0.5 hours, with discussion of the exercitations and – in case – of the supplementary research-work carried out by the student (teamwork is warmly suggested).
Further information
For any further information, please contact:
paolo.espa@unipv.it
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