Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• SPECIAL ARTICLES

  Overcoming the hurdles in the transmission sector in India

  • Author: S.K. Chaturvedi

• Our power generation cost is the lowest

  • Author: A.B. Agrawal

• RESEARCH NOTE

  M. Gopalakrishnan Accorded AAWRE's Highest Honor

  • Author: M. Gopalakrishnan

• New Assignments

• Training Course on Electrical and Fire Safety in Power Industry: 25–26 March 2010, New Delhi

• Meeting of Executive committee and General Body of CBIP: 5th May 2010, New Delhi

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Workshop on “Latest Technologies in Power Transmission Sector” 20th May 2010, New Delhi

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Society News

• Training Programme on Planning, Design & Construction of Earth & Rockfill, CFRD, Concrete and RCC Dams: 18–20 May 2010, New Delhi

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  ISRM International Symposium 2010 and 6th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium: 23–27 October 2010, New Delhi

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Forthcoming events

• Kishanganga: Pak to move International Court

• China's Himalayan Plan: Dam on Brahmaputra

• Blueprints for 28 Tibetan dams: Researcher

• China Dam Builders Clean Up Overseas

• JORDAN river Could Die by 2011

• The need of the hour is cooperation

• Battery-powered Desalination Plants

• SBI Lowers rates on new crop, irrigation loans

• Now, MoEF clashes with water ministry

• Rajasthan Govt. signs pact to extend water project

• Water scarcity to hit Seema power plant

• Pala Lays stress on better management

• Measures to protect Sasthamcotta Lake

• Conservation key to water management

• Efforts on to make madhya Pradesh a leader in save water campaign

• Now a strong plea for water auditing

• Project for restoration of water bodies to be over by August

• Kaushalya Dam

• Flooding shuts Tamil Nadu Plants

• Kolkata Metro

• RWAs voice their fears on groundwater bill

• Underground water depletion sets alarm bells ringing

• No Law in sight to regulate groundwater extraction

• In parched state, quest for elixir of life

• Fall in groundwater levels in Warangal

• Civic body to make rain pits mandatory

• Two rivers to be linked in Dindigul district: Minister

• Silted Sukhna Lake to breathe again

• PMO Lifts ban on Maheshwar Dam

• Centre Failed to deliver on Irrigation Projects:CAG

• EPA proposes coal ash rules

• Wastewater Hydroelectric Project in Australia Begins Operations

• Photon Commissions 3 MW PV Solar System

• Colexon To Build 2.5 - MW Rooftop Thin-film Array

• Nuclear power plant to cost more, start-up delayed

• Steam turbine for UK's biggest biomass CHP plant

• Nuclear power plant ban rolled back in Minnesota

• Mitsubishi Heavy picked for potential Virginia nuclear power unit

• Clean Development Mechanism Agreement Signed for Philippines Hydro Projects

• IEA: Solar Could Make Up 25% of Worldwide Energy Production by 2050

• Indonesia's PT Supraco & Tata Power To Build Geothermal Plant

• Overseas deals may be sealed in six months by CIL

• Power Companies Demand Monetary relief

• Power purchase: Relief on the way for Delhi Discoms

• Power rates likely to go down

• Power ministry to ensure states stick to open access norms

• Reliance Power mulls AP as alternative to Dadri

• State To Get More Power from Next Year

• Power overdrawal to attact raised penalty

• NRIs Power West Champaparan with Rice Husk

• Power share: States stick to Known stands

• Power Demand Reaches a Pinnacle

• New Power Projects may get gas from RIL's KG basin

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Advantage KARNTAKA-Self-sufficient in Energy

• Singapore's Sembcorp to invest in Andhra power plant

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Moser Baer to raise Rs 400 crore for expanding solar power

• Glimpses of recent technological achievements & inititives

• Solar plant synchronized with grid

• CLP to set up solar farms in India

• Tata BP solar expands manufacturing capacity by 62%

• Caparo's $3–B deal blow in the Wind for Suzlon

• Need To Harness Green Energy, says CM

• State Bank of India to install 10 windmills for captive use

• Nalco to set up Wind project

• Conergy installs 3 MW Photovoltaic plant

• Moser Baer to complete 2nd solar farm in next quarter

• RVEP to illuminate 3,000 villages in Orissa

• Focus turns to energy efficiency

• 74, 000 MW capacity to be added in 11th Plan

• Reliance Infra commissions 600 MW plant at Hissar

• Bajaj Hindustan's 1,980 MW project in Lalitpur

• China admits to hydropower project on Brahmaputra river

• ECB open up for power companies

• Mega power project bids face delays

• NTPC Installed Capacity Increases to 31,704 MW

• PFC in talks with Pvt. player to fund Rs 700-cr equity portion

• Power PSU honchos may get rap for missing targets

• NTPC Chhattisgarh to generate 660 mw by Oct

• NTPC's Tapovan Vishnugad hits roadblock

• 700 MW to be added by NHPC this fiscal

• Gail to invest Rs. 15,000 crore

• Videocon plans to double Pipavav plant capacity

• Road block for Adani Power's thermal project in MP

• NPCIL and NTPC JV nuclear plant in MP or Haryana

• Madhya Pradesh to have a 1,400 MW Nuclear plant

• Kudankulam project delayed

• Uttarakhand hydel projects receive loans from Nabard

• 48,157 MW hydel power to be added in 11th Plan

• Chathankottunada project Phase-II to begin soon

• Expert group to study T&D losses

• Plan Com to set up expert group on T&D losses

• NTPC and NPTI to run ITI

• WAPCOS for Providing Expert Team

• JV for 1,500 MW Hydroel ectric Project

• NBPPL signs MoU with NTPC &BHEL

• WAPCOS –Congo Tie Up

• Development of Transmission System in India - An Overview

• Development of Small Hydro Power in India

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Irrigation and Water Management – Operation and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems

  • Author: B.S. Bhavanishankar

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Water Resources & Sustainable Development - The Need of Paradigm Shift

  • Author: Akshaya Kumar Das

• DIGESTS

  Optimization Approach–First Time Attempted for Hydro Plants by Bhel

• Need of Transient Analysis of On-Demand Pressurized Irrigation Systems

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Statistical DAta

• World-land and water resources at a glance

• List of publications recently brought out by CBIP

• Enrich your knowledge with CBIP publications

• CASE STUDY

  Project Risk Assessor Model (PRAM) for Underground Corridor Construction A Case Study-Delhi Metro Rail

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Climate Variability in Civil Infrastructure Planning

• Extending London's Docklands Light Railway to Woolwich

• Modelling Heat Exchange between RCC Dam and Reservoir

• Effect of Material Uncertainty on Stochastic Response of Dams

• The Influence of Moisture on Sandstone Properties in Iran

• Water Balance Modelling in Glasgow and Beijing

• Evaluating Shallow Water Assumptions in Dam-Break Flows -

• Adjusting Soil Infiltration Coefficients for Groundwater Level

• Discharge Estimation in Small Irregular River Using LSPIV

• Numerical Modeling of Flood Flows Over Irregular Topography

• Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage in Saline Formations

• MRF-Transmissions Stimulating Geo-refrigeration in Glaciarization of Flood Water as Hydoelctric and Water Energy Resource Plus Disaster Control

• Climate Change and its Impacts on the Sustainability of Hydropower Projects with Special Reference to Western Himalayan Region

• An Equation for a Normal Depth in a Modified Horse-Shoe Shaped Tunnel Section

• Cognition of the Inter-Working of Processes Leading to Embankment Breaching along the Raimangal, Sundarbans

• The Economic Role of Inland Water Transport

• Impacts of Climate Change on Watenbonne Tran

• Circuit Breaker with Improved Performance for Reliable Operation of 800 kV Networks

• Application Flexibility of Optical Current and Voltage Sensors and their Benefits for Substation Engineering

• CPR-D Collapse Prediction Relay

• Substation Automation Hybrid

• Operational Experience of 400 kv Class Auto-Transformers In Power-Grid System

• Modern Trends in Application, Installation, Operation & Maintenance

• Partial Discharge Detection and Location in Power Transformers Using the UHE Technique

• Transformer Condition Assessment is Becoming a Strategic Tool for Utilities

• Bushing Diagnostics by PDC+FDS Method

• Spline Technique to Estimate the Reservoir Capacity

• Manufacturing Experience of Fabricated Rotor Field Coils for 200 MW Koldam Hydro Generator for NTPC

• Development of Small Hydropower Projects

• Problems Encountered during Erection & Commissioning of Ghatghar Pumped Storage Scheme (2 x 125 mw)

• Effect of Surface Engineering Technique on Fatigue Life of Alloyed Shafting Steels Used in Rotating Machinery

• Effects of Harmonics in EHV Transmission Network

• A Combined Anfis and Wavelet Transforms Approach For Power Transformer Protection

• Bibliographical Review of Distribution System Reliability

• Electric Supply Improvement - A Practical Study For Uniterrupted Power Supply To Western Orissa

• Optimal Power Flow Simulation in Deregulated Environment

• Standardization Aspects of UHV Networks

• Development and Testing of 1100 kv Gis Holaus Walter

• High Performance Surge Arresters for UHV Systems

• FROM THE DESK

  From Editor's Desk

  • Author: V. K. Kanjlia

• OBITUARIES

  Shri B.S. Bhavanishankar

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  International

• SPECIAL ARTICLES

  Mr. S.K. Chaturvedi, CMD, Powergrid

• Mr. B.P. Rao, CMD, BHEL

• Mr. S.K. Garg, Chairman, NHPC Ltd

• RESEARCH NOTE

  PM back home after hectic thre-day Bhutan visit

• India-Bangladesh water sharing agrement on Teesta soon

• India, Bangladesh discuss Teesta River water sharing

• Dhaka seeks joint management of Brahmaputra with Delhi, Beijing

• Climate change threatening Qinghai-Tibet plateau

• Pak shelves plan of moving to World Bank over water disputes with India

• US in consultation with India, Pak to help resolve water dispute:Holbroke

• Compensate Kashmir for water given to Pakistan, says MP

• Indus Water Comissioners to meet amid Pakistani rhetoric

• Faroq Abdullah says India has never stopped flow of water to Pakistan

• Indo-Pak water talks begin

• India, China meet to dilute water issues

• Reduce water demand & wastage to revive river

• Flood it with fresh water to give it life

• The wells brim with water in drought-prone Gujarat

• Groundwater in 33% of India undrinkable

• Panel to take up Ravi water sharing pact with Punjab

• Scientists debate on ways to face mining chalenges

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Workshop on Use of TBM/Road Header in Underground Works-Issues & Challenges 6th April 2010 New Delhi

• Interactive Workshop on Gas Insulated Substation 7th April 2010 at New Delhi

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Meeting Rock Mechanics Challenge of Deep Underground Mining 22–24 April 2010, Dhanbad (Jharkhand)

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Interactive Workshop On “Prevention Against Flooding of Hydro Power Stations” 25th February 2010, New Delhi

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Danish funds to improve water suply in Bangladesh.

• Melting glaciers could increase water struggles acros Asia

• US/Taiwan partnership to bost water projects acros Asia.

• Dates set for 6th World Water Forum Kick-Off

• One Day for Water, Water Every Day

• The secretary-general message on world water day-22 march 2010

• New York Tunel fire

• China-Rusia Oil Funel

• Contract Award on Kolkata Metro

• Indian Award

• Laos Gets First Ever TBM

• Rohtang Tunnel

• Delhi Metro Near Completion

• DMRC to Tunnel Under Runway

• Seli Completes TBM for Himalayas

• Unity and IVRCL win Mumbai tunel

• Saving Sydney's water

• 2011 IWRA World Water Congres “Adaptive Water Management: Loking to the Future”

• New Contents on the ISRM Website

• IN total 350 papers are being published on the 91CG procedings 91CG – Special Lectures and Sesions

• 91CG – Short Courses

• CIGRE, INDIA

• Society of Power Enginer (I)

• The International Association on Electricity Generation, Transmision and Distribution (Afro-Asian Region)

• Combined Meeting of Governing Council and General Assembly

• CBIP Forthcoming Events

• Training

• List of publications recently brought out by CBIP

• Enrich your knowledge with CBIP publications

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Conjunctive Use of Water in Irrigation Projects -Road Blocks to Implementation

  • Author: Vivek P. Kapadia, Mukesh B. Joshi

• CASE STUDY

  Planning of River Training Works – Farakka Barrage Project – A Case Study

  • Author: Naresh Kumar, Vijai Saran, Ramesh Raj Sambharia

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  A New Technique for Reducing Surface Evaporation and Improving Water use Efficiency with Drip Irrigation

  • Author: Kuldeep B. Patel, R. Patel, Madhusudan M. Parikh

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Development of Indian Power Sector – Present Status

• International conclave on “Key inputs for Accelerated Development of Indian Power Sector for 12th Plan and Beyond on 18th-19th August, 2009

• Solar Power – A Way Forward to Energy Security of India

• Seminar on Solar Power Development in India and related technologies

• Energy

• Water Resources

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Assessing Recycled/Secondary Materials as Pavement Bases

• Lightweight Recycled Geomaterials Reinforced with Geogrids

• Soft Ground Improvement with Solar-Powered Drainage

• Sustainable Soil Improvement via Vacuum Preloading

• Stabilisation of an Erodible Soil Using a Chemical Admixture

• Sustainable Binders for Soil Stabilisation

• Demonstrating Environmental Benefits of Ground Improvement

• Emissions Assessment Related to Vibro Stone Columns-I.

• The Influence of Effective Rainfall on Modeled Runoff Hydrograph

• Distribution of PCBs in Sediments of The Cerveny Potok, Stream Contaminated by Technical PCB Mixtures Delor, Czech Republic

• A Note on Integral Vortex Strength

• Psychorheology of Food Dispersions

• Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport Processes During Storm Events in a Non-perennial River

• On The use of The Simple Scaling of Heavy Rainfall in a Regional Estimation of IDF Curves in Slovakia

• Soil Moisture Dynamics in Levees During Flood Events - Variably Saturated Approach

• Cold Mix Design of Semi Dense Bituminous Concrete

• Lasers in Highway Engineering

• Traffic Noise Prediction Modeling and Analysis for Thiruvananthapuram City

• Trend, Causes and Severity of Road Traffic Accidents in Nigeria Between 1960 and 2004

• Selection Criteria for Generator Transformer in Sub & Super Critical Power Stations

• Technical Aspects Related to Testing of SF6 to Oil Bushing & EHV Cable Termination For Large Power Transformers

• On-line PartialDischarge Diagnosis atPowerTransformers

• Operational Problems of Power Transformers in Northern Grid

• Nitrogen Based Transformer Explosion and Fire Prevention System - A Comprehensive Asset Management Solution

• Specification Options, Online Measurement & QAP for Enhancement of Transformer Operational Life

• Development of New Specification for Transformer Oil Used During Processing & Testing of Power Transformers at Works

• Phenomena of High Circulating Current in Delta Winding in a Bank of Three 1 -Phase Auto Transformers: Case Study

• Standardized Specification for Flux-density and CRGO for Optimizing the use of High-permeability CRGO & Conventional CRGO

• 765/400 kV Power Transformers - Operational Experiences

• Partial Discharge Detection in Power Transformer by Acoustic Emission Technique - Case Study

• Testing of Transformers for Transferred Surge - A Key Tool for Verifying Design And Manufacturing

• An Approach to Reliable Design of UHV Transformer for Powergrid's 1200 Kv Testing Station at Bina

• Functional Reliability of On Load Tap Changers

• Sweep Frequency Response Analysis (SFRA) - Recent International Field Experiences

• Towards Reliable Power Transformers Learning from Experience

• Worldwide Standardization Process of SFRA and Case Studies

• Moisture and Dielectric Properties Analysis of Power Transformer by Dirana Measurement

• Bushing Diagnostics by PDC+FDS Method

• Application of Dissolved Gas Analysis for Monitoring Oil Filled Bushing Condition

• Standardization of Large Power Transformers

• A Case Study of Repeated Failure of Generator Transformer of URI Power Station in the Year 2004

• Partial Discharge Detection and Location in Power Transformers Using the UHF Technique

• Dynamic Loading of Power Transformers Based on Real-time Monitoring

• Critical Design, Testing and Manufacturing Features for the Selection of High Quality Composite Insulators for Transmission Overhead Lines

• Process Bus: Implementation of Pilot Projects and Experiences

• Transformer Insulation Design for 800 kV DC

• Structure and Functionality of an 800 kV HVDC Control System

• Implementation of National Load Despatch Centre in India - An Overview

• PMU Simulation and Application for Power System Stability Monitoring

• Innovations in Manufacturing Technology of Cold Shrink Cable Joints

• Distribution Automation and How It Directly Contributes to the Smart Grid Concept

• Power Testing of 1100–1200 kV Circuit Breakers

• Application of Alternative Insulating Liquids for Vacuum Type & Oiltap on-load Tap-changers

• Considerations for Insulator Selection and Design for UHV AC Lines

• U.S. Interests in Ultra-High-Voltage (UHV) Transmission Systems

• 1200 kV Transmission System and Status of Development of Substation Equipment/Transmission Line Material in India

• Selection of the Rated Voltage for the UHV AC System in China

• Analysis on Overvoltages Related to the UHV AC Systems

• Compactness and High-reliability Technology for UHV Circuit-breakers, disconnectors and Earthing Switches

• High Performance Surge Arresters for UHV Systems

• Aspects Related to Design and Testing of UHV Insulator Strings With CAP and PIN Insulators

• 800 kV Ultra HVDC Transformer - A New Dimension of DC Transmission

• A New Generation of Thyristor Valves for ±800kV HVDC Projects

• 800 kV UHVDC. From Test Station to Project Execution

• The Progress on the Electromagnetic Environment Study of UHVDC Transmission Line

• FROM THE DESK

  From editor's desk

  • Author: V. K. Kanjlia