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    This document contains a 7 question exam for a Hydropower Engineering course. It covers various topics related to hydropower including: - Bernoulli's theorem and its assumptions - Calculating pressure changes in pipes of varying diameters - Types of fluid flows - Estimating flood peaks using Gumbel's distribution - Differences between reaction and impulse turbines - Construction of Pelton turbines - Working principles of centrifugal pumps - Calculating flow rates in branching pipes - Purposes and types of spillways - Utilizing hydraulic jumps in spillway energy dissipaters - Defining river catchments and using them to estimate hydrological parameters - Calculating rainfall characteristics for a catchment area

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    This document contains a 7 question exam for a Hydropower Engineering course. It covers various topics related to hydropower including: - Bernoulli's theorem and its assumptions - Calculating pressure changes in pipes of varying diameters - Types of fluid flows - Estimating flood peaks using Gumbel's distribution - Differences between reaction and impulse turbines - Construction of Pelton turbines - Working principles of centrifugal pumps - Calculating flow rates in branching pipes - Purposes and types of spillways - Utilizing hydraulic jumps in spillway energy dissipaters - Defining river catchments and using them to estimate hydrological parameters - Calculating rainfall characteristics for a catchment area

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    This document contains a 7 question exam for a Hydropower Engineering course. It covers various topics related to hydropower including: - Bernoulli's theorem and its assumptions - Calculating pressure changes in pipes of varying diameters - Types of fluid flows - Estimating flood peaks using Gumbel's distribution - Differences between reaction and impulse turbines - Construction of Pelton turbines - Working principles of centrifugal pumps - Calculating flow rates in branching pipes - Purposes and types of spillways - Utilizing hydraulic jumps in spillway energy dissipaters - Defining river catchments and using them to estimate hydrological parameters - Calculating rainfall characteristics for a catchment area

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    POKHARA UNIVERSITY

    Level: Bachelor Semester – Spring Year : 2009


    Programme: BE Full Marks: 100
    Course: Hydropower Pass Marks: 45
    Time : 3hrs.
    Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
    as practicable.
    The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
    Attempt all the questions.

    1. a) State and derive Bernoulli Theorem, mention clearly the assumptions 7


    underlying it.
    b) 50 lit per sec of water flow in a horizontal pipe line which is 200 m 8
    long and the center line of which is 3m above the datum line. The
    pipe tapers from 30cm to 20cm diameter. If the pressure at the larger
    end of the pipe is 98.1 KN/m2, calculate the pressure at the other end.
    2. a) Describe the difference types of Fluid flows. 7
    b) The following table gives the observed annual maximum discharge in a 8
    river. Estimate form Gumbel's analytical and graphical methods the flood
    peaks with return period of 50 and 100 years. The reduced mean and
    reduced standard deviation for Gumbel distribution with sample size of 10
    are 0.4952 and 0.9496, respectively
    Year 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
    Discharge 321 400 125 730 248 178 106 413 311 232
    (m3/s)

    3. a) What are the differences between reaction turbine and Impulse 7


    turbines? Describe clearly.
    b) Describe construction of Peltron turbine with the help of sketch. 8
    4. a) Describe working principle of centrifugal pump with neat sketch. 7
    b) A pipe having a 18 cm diameter branches into two pipes. One of the 8
    branch pipe have a diameter of 12 cm where as the other has 8 cm.
    The flow in the lager pipe is 60% of the main pipe and remaining is
    discharge through the smaller pipe. If the average velocity of flow in
    any of the pipes, main or branch does not exceed 5m/sec, find rate of
    flow in all pipes.

    1
    5. a) What are the purposes of spillway? Explain different types of 7
    spillways with neat sketch.
    b) What is meant by hydraulic jumps? Show with neat sketches how
    8
    this phenomenon is utilized by different types of energy dissipaters in
    spillway.
    6. a) Define the catchment area of a river. Using suitable examples, 5
    discuss the use of river catchment to estimate various hydrological
    parameters of a hydropower project.
    b) There are six rainfall stations available to calculate the rainfall
    characteristics of a catchement whose shape can be approximated by 10
    joining the coordinates (distance in km) (30, 30), (10, 40), (0, 80),
    (0, 100), (10, 110), (60, 110), (80, 100), (90, 50) and (30, 30).
    Coordinates of the rain gauge stations and the annual rainfall recorded in the area
    are given below.
    Station No. 1 2 3 4 5 6
    Coordinates (40, 120) (20, 60) (20, 100) (60, 60) (60, 100) (40, 0)
    Annual rainfall 162 96 135 81 121 42
    (cm)

    7. Write short notes on: (Any Two) 2×5


    a) Pipes losses
    b) Types of concrete and fill dams
    c) Desk study report

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