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Hydropower Engineering Model Question Set

This document contains 22 multiple choice questions related to hydropower engineering. The questions cover topics such as cascade hydropower projects, power duration curves, Nepal's hydropower development history and policy, load duration curves, factors for selecting dam sites, forces on dams, dam failure types, functions of coffer dams and stilling basins, intake gates, settling basins, tunnel sizing, water hammer effect, penstock design, powerhouse types, turbine selection, draft tubes, turbine governors, modeling and simulation techniques, Nepal's hydropower potential, power/energy duration curves, energy mix concepts, reservoir useful life determination, and managing reservoir sedimentation.

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Hydropower Engineering Model Question Set

This document contains 22 multiple choice questions related to hydropower engineering. The questions cover topics such as cascade hydropower projects, power duration curves, Nepal's hydropower development history and policy, load duration curves, factors for selecting dam sites, forces on dams, dam failure types, functions of coffer dams and stilling basins, intake gates, settling basins, tunnel sizing, water hammer effect, penstock design, powerhouse types, turbine selection, draft tubes, turbine governors, modeling and simulation techniques, Nepal's hydropower potential, power/energy duration curves, energy mix concepts, reservoir useful life determination, and managing reservoir sedimentation.

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Hydropower Engineering Model Questions

Q1. What do you mean by cascade hydropower project? Describe the component of peaking run
of the river with neat sketch.
Q2. What do you mean by power duration curve? How did you optimize the installed capacity of
hydropower project? Describe the relationship between trap efficiency and capacity inflow ratio.
Q3. Describes history of hydropower development in Nepal? What issues are incorporate in
hydropower policy of Nepal?
Q4. What do you mean by load duration curve? Which type of hydropower plant should be
develop to manage the deficit power in dry season?
Q5. What are the factors should be consider while selecting the concrete gravity dam site
location?
Q6. What type of forces will be act on concrete gravity dam? Describes with neat sketch.
Q7. Describes the different types of failure of earthen gravity dam? What is the main function of
coffer dam? Describes its construction technique.
Q8. Why spillway is important in hydropower project? Describes its type with neat sketch.
Q9. How do you dissipate the energy in stilling basin in different sequent depth and tail water
depth condition?
Q10. Describes the different type of intake and gate that used in hydropower project with sketch.
Q11. What is the main function of de-settling basin? Describes the different types of settling
basin and also describes its design approaches.
Q12. How do you optimize the size of hydraulics tunnel? Describes the different types of support
system that used in tunneling.
Q13. What do you mean by water hammer effect? How it generates? Describes the design
process of surge tank.
Q14. How do you design the thickness of penstock? Why support piers and anchor block are
needed in hydropower projects?
Q15. Describes the different types of powerhouse? Describes the selection criteria of different
types of turbine?
Q16. Why draft tube is connected in Francis turbine? Describes the working principle of Pelton
turbine governors.
Q17. What is difference between optimization and simulation? Describes the simulation
technique that could be used in hydropower?
Q18. What do you mean by Modelling of hydropower project? Why it is important? Describes
the different methods of modelling that can be used in hydropower project?
Q19. What are the factors that shows the Nepal has large hydropower potential?
Q20. What do you mean by power and energy duration curve? How do you shift the load curve
of Nepal to manage the load demand by our self-sources of power?
Q21. What do you mean by energy mix concept? How do you mix the different type of energy to
manage the load demand?
Q22. What do you mean by useful life of reservoir? How it is determined? What are the factors
that affect the reservoir sedimentation and how did you manage the sedimentation problem in
reservoir?

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