Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• EDITORIAL

  From editor's desk

  • Author: V.K. Kanjlia

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Face to Face

  • Author: N. Murugeson

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  UHVDC Power transmission: new equipment developments

  • Author: Norman MacLeod, Stephan Lelaidier

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Fundamentals, operating, principles, and control compatibility

  • Author: Mohamed Rashwan

• Scope of VSC based technology in HVDC, facts and other application

  • Author: Narain G. Hingorani

• REPORT (R&D)

  Report on international conference & tutorial on VSC technologies for HVDC & facts

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Glimpses of international conference & tutorial on VSC technologies for HVDC & facts

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Wind power development in India and related grid connectivity

  • Author: Basanta Dash, Haraprasad Biswas

• Construction aspects of 1000 mW karcham-wangtoo hydroelectric project

  • Author: D.P. Goyal, Praveen Kumar Singh, K.K. Sood, Pankaj Gaur

• 800 kV HVDC – from R&D to going commercial

  • Author: Abhay Kumar, Victor F. Lescale, Liu Zehong, Ma Weimin, Don Menzies, Urban Åström

• Fly ash colgrout masonry – a economical impermeable masonry for water retaining structures

  • Author: M.S. Mundhe, C.L. Narkhede

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Power capacityadditionto be only 7,675 mW this year

• Interest rate subsidy for power – distribution

• Centre helps city with power

• BHEL tests India's first 600-mW turbo generator

• Nuclear-energy answer to power crisis, says top scientist

• Renewables can power the world, says IPCC

• 23 Small power projects get NOD for more capacity

• India to add 67,000 mW solar power capacity by 2022

• Power discoms want 60% hike in tariff

• Power nigam enhances trans-mission capacity

• Haryana wall along hansi butana alarms government

• Composite dialogue: no break through on water negotiations

• Centre reviewing Chinese moves

• Need plan for water crisis

• Forest department to go ahead with map digitization

• Contract signed for bakhtiari, iran, the world's highest planned dam

• Zambia secures Indian loan for itezhi tezhi

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Report on interactive workshop on “best practices for design of gas insulated switchgear (GIS)” and “necessity of condition monitoring of gis to prevent catastrophic failure”

• Brief report of workshop on “construction of dams and tunnels in weak rocks”

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Steady-state and transient EHV AC cable shunt reactive compensation assessment

• Reactive power control with chp plants - a demonstration

• Prime as open communication base for IEC61850 on the distribution network

• Statistics of failures on underground high voltage power cables in Brazil

• Use of reduced visual impact designs on 220 kV and 400 kV overhead lines in Ireland and their integration into the landscape

• VSC-HVDC transmission with cascaded two-level converters

• Substation automation in the next decade: predictable steps and sound visions

• A comprehensive Approach for Studying the Economic and Reliability Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Policies

• International power grid interconnections in mexico

• Stochastic transfer function model applied to combined reservoir management and flow routing

• Modelling phytoplankton dynamics in a complex estuarine system

• Stabilizing peat soil with cement and silica fume

• The Increase of Wave Velocity with Time in Concrete Piles:

• Surface vortex prevention at power intakes by horizontal plates

• Estimating groundwater recharge from water isotope (õ2H, õ18 O) depth profiles in the densu river basin, Ghana

• Producing time series of river water height by means of satellite radar altimetry—a comparative study

• CASE STUDY

  Flood-hazard assessment and risk-based zoning of a tropical flood plain: case study of the yom river, Thailand

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Estimating potential evapotranspiration without continuous daily data: possible errors and impact on water balance simulations

• Significance of contract management in the context or globalization

• New, Safe Injection-grouting Resings

• Compaction of fills involving stabilization of expansive soils

• Study of carbonate sedimentary rocks as engineered dry fills

• Assessment of Water Retention Behaviour in Compacted Fills