Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  3 Days Training Programme - Protection Principles, Applic Ations & An Alysis Relating To Hydro Power Plants

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Environment Clearance for Hydro Electric Projects in India: Process & Post Clearance Hindrances - Some Examples

  • Author: M.M. Madan

• Mock Black Start Experience in Northern Region of India

  • Author: K.V.S. Baba, Rajiv Porwal, Nitin Yadav, Ankit Gupta

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Role of Smart Grids in the Distribution sector in India

  • Author: Reji Kumar Pillai, Hem Thukral, Akshay Ahuja

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Breaking the Agrarian Impasse in Eastern India: Understanding the Land-Water-Energy-Food Nexus

  • Author: M. Dinesh Kumar, Nitin Bassi, MVK Sivamohan, L. Venkatachalam

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Improving the Water and Energy Efficiency for Food Production through Drip Irrigation

  • Author: Santosh K. Deshmukh

• Regulating Water Resources for Efficient, Equitable and Sustainable Use in Maharashtra

  • Author: Ravi Budhiraja, S.A. Kulkarni, P.R. Deshpande

• Micro-Irrigation for Sugarcane in Karnataka – An Unique Initiative

  • Author: Aravind Galagali

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Snowmelt Runoff Modeling in an Indian Himalayan River Basin using WinSRM, RS & GIS

  • Author: Arun Kumar Soni, Archana Sarkar, Nayan Sharma

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Statistical Data

• Growth of Installed Capacity

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Power Transmission Sector May See Rs 3 Trillion Investment in Four Years: Govt

• Discoms Await Comfort Letter from Government to Get Rs. 11,000 Crore Loan from Power Finance Corporation

• Water Resources Department to Include Major Projects Under Micro-Irrigation

• PM asked to Take Steps for River Linking in Odisha

• Himachal to Have Standing Committee for Irrigation

• Japan to Extend RS 2,760 Crore Loan to India for River Projects

• Narmada Reaches Barwani After Flowing for 200 Kms

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Maximizing Local Renewable Energy Consumption by shifting Flexible Electrical Loads in Time and Space

• Solid/Gaseous Insulation Systems for Compact HVdC Solutions

• Can Satellite Land Surface Temperature data be Used Similarly to River discharge Measurements for distributed Hydrological Model Calibration?

• Artificial Recharge by Floodwater Spreading Estimated by Water Balances and Groundwater Modelling in Aarid Iran

• An Aerodynamic Approach in Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Estimation for Investigating Soil Erosion degree

• EDITORIAL

  From Editor's Disk

• REPORT (R&D)

  CBiP DaY CeleBrations 2016-a Brief report

• RESEARCH NOTE

  24x7 Power Supply

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Power transformer short-circuit test Procedure, Present and Future capabilities of cPri, High Power laboratory

  • Author: Raja Ramamohana Rao Chennu, J. Santhosh

• CASE STUDY

  Is Managed Aquifer Recharge by Check Dam Benefiting the Society? A Case Study

  • Author: S. Parimalarenganayaki, L. Elango

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Water Quality Index of Groundwater in Haridwar District, Uttarakhand, India

  • Author: Gopal Krishan, Surjeet Singh, R.P. Singh, N.C. Ghosh, Anurag Khanna

• Minimum Environmental/Ecological Flows-Views of CWC

  • Author: Bhopal Singh, N.N. Rai

• Transformation Technique for The Water Table Prediction Influenced by Recharge and ET

  • Author: Surjeet Singh, Gopal Krishan, H.S. Chauhan

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Important Dam Failures in India

• Growth of Installed Capacity

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  China says to Cut Power Sector Emissions by 60% by 2020

• AP Power sector to get Rs 4, 000-Crore assistance from World Bank

• Success of UDAY make or break deal for Power Sector, Says Fitch

• Discoms petition CERC over expensive power

• Consumer to gain from New Power Tariff Model

• ASI's Deepest Tunnel Inspection (ROV)

• IFC Considers Loan for Pakistan's Karot Scheme

• NHPC to Develop 293 MW of Hydro in West Bengal

• Gujarat government to spend Rs 525 crore to raise Sardar Sarovar dam height

• Norms for Extraction of Ground Water

• Barrage to BE Built on Sapta Koshi

• Government Clears Proposal for Re-Construction of Dam in Afghanistan

• Historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change Reached by Nearly 200 Countries

• Chenani-Nashri Tunn EL Project

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Models of Synchronous Generators Subject to Transient Voltage Surges

• Pattern Recognition Techniques for Determining the Health Index of Oil-Paper Insulation of In-service Power Transformers

• The Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

• Influence of Thickness of a Vertical Core on the Slope Stability of Earth and Rockfill Dams

• Stability of Spillway Cutslope at Dhauliganga H.E. Project

• Role of Electronic Media in Disaster Management

• Disaster Management

• The Role of Pumped-Storage in a Pan-European Supergrid

• Upgrading La Coche Pumped-Storage Plant

• Study on Changes in Manning's Roughness Coefficient in the Presence of Different Concentrations of Wash Load

• Upgrading a Conventional Pump Turbine to a Variable Speed Machine

• EDITORIAL

  From Editor's Disk

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Gas Insulated Substations and Asset Monitoring of Power Equipments 19–20 January 2016, New Delhi

• UDAY ops begin for Discom Health

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Gas Insulated Substations - Testing and Commissioning Tata Power Experience

  • Author: Yatin Gawde, Surendra Joshi, Chhaya Bhonslay, Praveen Chorghade

• Performance Monitoring of Power transformer: a novice approach

  • Author: Shashikant Bakre

• Asset Monitoring Practices in CESC Ltd.

  • Author: Shamik Purkayastha

• RESEARCH NOTE

  System Studies and Engineering of GIS

  • Author: Nihar Raj

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Assessment of Investment Worthiness of Hydro Electric Projects

  • Author: Ranendra Sarma

• CASE STUDY

  Hydrologic analysis for river Diversion scheme of Kanupur Dam Project, odisha – a case study

  • Author: Mahendra Kumar Bhuyan, Sagar Mohanty, Joygopal Jena, Pradip Kumar, Bhunya

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Developments in Erosion Control Systems

  • Author: K. Balan

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Proceedings of India-Canada Workshop on best practices for sustainable Hydro Development 21–22 January 2016, new delhi

• One Day Workshop on Innovation in Tunnelling Technology

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project (720 MW), Trongsa, Bhutan

• Growth of Installed Capacity

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Make in India: Power Sector Stress is Just Short Term, Says Power Minister Piyush Goyal

• Nepal, India Discuss Cooperation in Power Sector

• Indian Power Sector at Turning Point: World Economic Forum

• Power Sector Outlook ‘Stable to Negative’ in FY17: Ind-RA

• Much Lost in Power Struggle After Tariff Cut

• Last, Hope for Waterlogged Areas of Southwest Punjab

• China Firm to Build Mega DAM in POK despite India's Strong Opposition

• 427-Tonne TBM Pushed for 210M Tunnel

• Hydel Projects Run into Opposition

• Diversion of Water Must Stop to Curb Ganga’s Pollution: Report

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Optimal Allocation and Assessment of Superconducting Fault Current Limiter in an Urban Meshed 110-kV Subtransmission network

• The first HVAC and HVDC Grid Connection Projects for Wind Power Integration in German north Sea: Experience, Challenge and Outlook

• Conversion of AC Multi-circuit Lines to AC-DC Hybrid Lines with respect to the Environmental Impact

• Snowmelt Runoff Modeling in Chenab Basin Using Remote Sensing and GIS

• Operating a Hydropower Cascade to Optimize Energy Management

• Estimating Production Losses in Run-of-river Hydro Plants

• Under Pressure in Istanbul

• The Victorian Solution

• Development and innovation in Spanish RCC dam technology

• Construction challenges at the Portugues RCC dam, Puerto Rico

• Material Parameters of Cement and Alkali Activated Fly Ash Based Concrete: Laboratory Measurements and Numerical Simulation

• Modelling of single-phase flow in the stator channels of submersible aerator

• Reliability Verification of Industrial Heritage Buildings

• Inverse Analysis of Horizontal Earth Stresses Based on Borehole Mechanics and Soft Computing

• Vibration of the New Turbine Runner of the Pumped-storage Hydro Power Plant at Dlouhé Stráne

• An Integrated Water Balance Model for Assessing Water Scarcity in a Data-sparse Interfluve in Eastern India

• EDITORIAL

  From Editor's Desk

• REPORT (R&D)

  Report on International Conference on ‘Global Trends in the Development of Power Transmission & Distribution Systems Including Smart Grid’

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Cigre Tutorials 15–16 February 2016, Bengaluru

• Challenges for Transmission & Distribution, Substation & Equipment of the Future CIGRE SC A3: High Voltage Equipment

  • Author: Hiroki Ito

• Power Sector at a Glance & Overview of Distribution Sector

  • Author: Ravindra Kumar Verma

• Development of Electricity Infrastructures in Sub Saharan Africa

  • Author: Rob Stephen

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Automated Meter Reading (AMR) Implementation - Eastern Region Experience

  • Author: U.K. Verma, G. Chakraborty, N. Ahmad, P. Debnath

• CASE STUDY

  Benefit Sharing Approach for the Transboundary Brahmaputra River Basin in South Asia - A Case Study

  • Author: Subash P. Rai, Nayan Sharma

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Hydro Power Development and recent Floods in Uttarakhand

  • Author: Hari Ram Sharma

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Height of an Orifice Spillway Crest from Reservoir Bed and its Effect on Various Other Hydraulic Parameters

  • Author: Prajakta P. Gadge, V. Jothiprakash, V. V. Bhosekar

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Geosynthetics Functions

• Growth of Installed Capacity

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Nepal, India Discuss Cooperation in Power Sector

• Make in India Week: Government Committed Toadequate Coalsupply to Non-Power Sector

• Sembcorp, Gayatri Looks to Double Andhra Power Plant Capacity

• Six Dams Chosen for Improvement Programme

• Google to Offer ‘Flood alerts’ on maps

• NHPC may buy Private Plants

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Research Work of ±1100 kV UHVDC Technology

• Development of GIS Technologies to Meet new Requirements at 420 kV Level and Above

• Human Interference in the Water discharge of the Changjiang (Yangtze River), China

• Impact assessment of climatic and land-use changes on flood runoff in southeast Queensland

• Hybrid Modelling Approach to Prairie Hydrology: Fusing Data-Driven and Process-Based Hydrological Models

• EDITORIAL

  From Editor's Disk