Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Summary and Recommendations of the National Conclave on Balance of Plants – Issues and Challenges

• Capacity Addition Based on Super-Critical Technology

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Wind Power Development in India – Some Common Perceptions and Facts

• Efficacy of Grouting in Head Race Tunnel

  • Author: Rajbal Singh, Hari Dev, U.S. Vidyarthi

• Innovative Criss-Cross Grouting Around Vertical Penstocks of Koteshwar he Project

  • Author: Rajeev Vishnoi, Sanjay Goel

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Various Options of Single Line Diagrams for Hydropower Projects

  • Author: K.C. Keshre

• CASE STUDY

  Case Study of Instrumentation in Hirakud Masonry/Concrete Dam (Odisha)

  • Author: G.C. Sahu, G.N. Das

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Highlights of Power Sector

• Live Storage Capacities Under Major & Medium Irrigation Projects by States

• Some Systematic Steps Can go a Long Way in Mainstreaming Bio Energy in the Country, Says Ramakrishna Y.B.

  • Author: Ramakrishna Y.B.

• Biomass Power Plants in a Fix Over Dearer Inputs

• Record Generation by UJVN Limited

• IGL to Promote Wider Usage of Gas

• Shinde Addresses Engineers Joining NTPC

• NTPC Consultancy Wing Bags Largest Ever Contract

• Journey on the Path of Excellence Success Story of Powergrid

• NTPC Looks at Retail Distribution of Power in Industrial HUBS, Sezs

• ‘N-Plants can Withstand Disasters’ Can Face Tsunami, Floods: NPCIL

• New Dam Topographically and Geologically Feasible

• Pakistan wants India to Stop Work on Kishenganga Project

• Farming Overhaul Vital for Food, Water Security: UN

• Centre Plans Regulator For Efficient Water Usage

• Term of Empowered Panel on Mullaperiyar Issue Extended

• Beijing Maps Out Source and Course of Brahmaputra, Indus

• Boost for Irrigation in Rajasthan

• Panel: Shift Water to Concurrent List

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Report on Interactive Workshop on “Latest Trends & Experiences in Protection & Automation”

• Report on Workshop on Drilling and Blasting for Surface and Underground Structures 11–12 august 2011, New Delhi

• REPORT (R&D)

  Report on Seminar on Grouting and Deep Mixing 25–26 august, 2011, New Delhi

• RESEARCH NOTE

  CBIP Centre of Excellence

• Excellence Enhancement Centre For the Power Sector at CBIP Office, Malcha Marg, New Delhi

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Insulation State Analysis and Upgrading Feasibility Study of Existing AC 10kV XLPE Distribution Cables in Jiangsu Grid of China

• Development of a Compact Bipole 380 kV Overhead Line

• Disturbance Recording Systems within the Environment of IEC 61850: Built-in or Stand Alone?

• Regularly Cleared Right-of-Way; an Important Habitat for Grassland and Mire Butterflies and Vegetation

• Power Quality Management in New Zealand

• Joint Action of DG Units to Reduce Flow of Reactive Power in the Distribution Network

• Utility Experience and Future Expectation from Sub-Station Automation System Based on IEC 61850

• Implementation and Operation of a Cable Monitoring System in Order to Increase the Ampacity of a 220-kV Underground Power Cable

• Potential Reduction of Audible Noise from New and Aged Overhead Transmission Line Conductors by Increasing their Hydrophilicity

• Functional Model of Virtual Power Plant (VPP)

• Communications Needs for Different Applications of IPS/UPS Wide Area Measurements (WAMS)

• Investigations and Remediation of Hill Rock Slopes

• Compaction of Fill in Land Reclamation by Rapid Impact,

• Challenges experienced at the Nant de Drance Pumped-Storage Plant

• Unsaturated Loessial Soils: a Sustainable Solution for Earthworks

• Monthly Rainfall-Runoff Modelling using Artificial Neural Networks

• Impact of Land-use Changes on Snow in a Forested Region with Heavy Snowfall in Hokkaido, Japan

• Continuous Dam Monitoring: An Essential Basis for Reliable Back-analysis

• The Story of the Bailey Bridge

• The Adaptation and Use of French and UK Earthworks Methods

• Surface Miner-Eco Friendly Mining Equipment

• Geotechnical Design for the Port Botany Expansion Project, Sydney

• Methodologies for Assessment of Safety Risk in Mines

• Field Permeability at Shallow Depth in a Compacted fill

• How the Dutch Plan to Stay Dry Over the Next Century

• Development of the First Pumped-Storage Scheme with an Underground Lower Reservoir

• An Innovative Gallery Solution for an RCC Dam

• EDITORIAL

  From Editor's desk