QUESTION PAPER

• Question Paper of 2015
  
• Question Paper of 2016
  
• Question Paper of 2017
  

SECTION-A         UNIT-I INTRODUCTION- DOWNLOAD NOTES FROM HERE

• Sources of energy,
  
• status of hydropower,
  
• thermal vs hydropower,
  
• advantages of hydropower,
  
• place of hydropower in power system
  

                               UNIT-II DOWNLOAD NOTES FROM HERE

• Electrical load on hydro power,
  
• load curves, load factor,
  
• capacity factors,
  
• utility factors,
  
• diversity factors,
  
• load on hydropower stations,
  
• load curves, load duration curves,
  
• firm power , secondary power ,
  
• prediction of loads
  

SECTION-B         UNIT-III DOWNLOAD NOTES FROM HERE

• Types of hydropower stations-
  
• classification of hydropower stations,
  
• run of river plants,
  
• general lay out of run of river plants,
  
• Vlley dam plans, storage and pondage.Examples
  

                             UNIT-IV DOWNLOAD NOTES FROM HERE

• Basic features of Hydropower plants-
  
• advantages of pumps storage plants,
  
• storage plants,
  
• types of pump storage plants,
  
• reversible turbines,
  
• efficiency of pump storage plants. Examples.
  

SECTION-C      UNIT-V WATER CONVEYANCE SYSTEM DOWNLOAD HERE

• Water Conveyance System-
  
• Classifications of penstocks,
  
• design criteria of penstocks,
  
• anchor blocks,
  
• types of valves,
  
• water hammer,
  
• surges in power channels,Examples
  
• Types of Surge shafts-
  
• surge analysis,
  
• design of surge shafts.Examples.
  

SECTION-D       UNIT-VI TURBINES- DOWNLOAD NOTES HERE

• ypes of turbines,
  
• criterian for selection,
  
• specifis speed of turbones,
  
• unit powr,
  
• unit discharge,
  
• cavitatin in turbines,
  
• design of draft tube. Examples
  

                            
UNIT-VII  Types of power houses-

• types of power houses,
  
• lay out of power houses,
  
• ventilations,
  
• under ground power houses,
  
• advantages,
  

Examples.

• Reference-Water power Engineering by Dandekar and Sharma
  
• Hydropower structures Volume IIi-By R S Varshney
  
• Hydro Power Engineering By Dr Darde P N ,Vayu Education,Delhi