Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Condition, Criticality & Risk Assessment of Transfonnation & Reactors - Powergrid Experience

• Renovation & modernisation (R&M) of 220 KV/132 KV switchyard - An experience

  • Author: S.K. Bhoi

• Reliability of hy equipment (Cigre WG A3-06)

• Condition monitoring for preventing gas leakage failure on GIS

  • Author: Tadao Minagawa

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Post grouting studies for measuring permeability at DYKE-1, Hidkal Dam, Karnataka

  • Author: Keshav Rai Dhawan, R.S. Ramteke

• An overview of the national guidelines for management of landslides with particular reference to infrastructure projects

  • Author: Surya Parkash

• Maintenance Management System for Hydro Electric Power Plants

  • Author: G. Praveena, NYPR Durga Prasad

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Some Insights on Corrosion of Transmission Line Tower Foundations and Remedial measures

  • Author: S. Christian Johnson, GS. Thirugnanam

• Highlights of power sector

• State wise Replenisbable Ground Water Resources in India

• REPORT (R&D)

  Report of the International Colloquium on Management of Ageing EHV equipment and Possible mitigating measures

• RESEARCH NOTE

  International Seminar on Survey and Investigations of Hydroelectric Projects -Issues and Challenges

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  India likely to pay $10 per unit for tapi gas

• No more gas-based plants till 2015: govt to power COS

• New rules to meet summer power demand

• 400 MW koteshwar synchronised with northern grid

• PM dedicates 2,200 km gail pipeline to nation

• Indicus analytics: Power-less in Bharat

• Kudankulam first unit to be commissioned soon

• Kalam moots nuclear safety institute

• BHEL creates new record in power

• BHEL adds 1,625 MW of power to the national grid

• Heat is on polar ‘Bottom Water’ Vanismng

• Water: new weapon of mass conflict war in 2022 India may become hotbed of water wars if we don't solve challenges, says US Intelligence Report

• Filtered water made easy by matkas in Bihar

• India for arbitration of tulbul row

• JAYA writes to pm on draft dam safety bill 2010

• No fall in siang river flow: Centre

• India completes survey on riverlinking

• ‘China's activity on bramhaputra won't impact India’

• India worst in water delivery

• Flow of central fund increases significantly

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Experience with Continuous Monitoring Partial Discharge Testing In a Predictive Maintenance Application of Three Similar Hydro Machines

• Relevance and Importance of the Carbon Oxide Gases and their Ratio for the Interpretation of DIssolved Gas Analysis In Transformers and Tap Changers

• Extending the Residual Lifetime of 50 kV Minimum on Clreuit Breakers through Collaboration Among Utilities and Industry in the Netherlands

• Upgrading of Existing 400 kV FF HV Cable Link by Redesigning and Implementing Forced Cooling Apparatuses in Vienna

• Experimental Flashover Research on Switching Impulse of 750 kV Single Circuit Compact Transmission Line Tower

• Application of Technologies for Uprating and Upgrading of Substations in Japan

• The Rómulo project, Spanish Peninsula -Mallorca (243 km, 250 kV, 2x200 MW): first Spanish HVDC Link

• Impact on the power system protection of high penetration of wind farms technology

• Feasibility Aspects of a Synchronous Coupling of the IPS/UPS with the UCTE

• Special protection system in the interface between the Turkish and ENTSO-E power systems to counteract propagadon of major disturbances

• External Costs in the Environmental Risk Assessment of Hydropower Project Investment Analysis

• Large-scale experimental field tests of practical earthing systems under transient conditions

• A Commercial Architeeture for the Aggregation and the Trade of Active Demand Services

• Hydrogeology of Wadi Wurayah, United Arab Emirates, and its Importance for Biodiversity and Local Commnnldes

• Has the Magnitude of Floods Across the USA Changed with Global CO2, Levels?

• Rock Mass Damage due to Repeated Blast Loading at a Powerhouse Foundadon of Junia Hydroelectric Power Project

• Relationship between Hydrological Regime and Ecosystem Services Supply in a Caribbean Coastal Wetland: A Social-Ecological Approach

• Probabilistic Flood Forecasting for a Mountainous Headwater Catchment Using a Nonparametric Stochastic Dynamic Approach

• Comparison of implicit and Explicit Connection of Fast-and Slow-Flowing Components of a Water System

• Fluid Flow Interactions in Ogun River, Nigeria

• Intermittent Reservoir Inflow Prediction Using Stochastic and Genetic ProgrammIng Models

• To Connect or not to Connect? Floods, Fisheries and Livelihoods in the Lower Rufiji Floodplain Lakes, Tanzania

• Hydrocllmate Variability and Long-Lead Forecasting of Rainfall over Thalland by Large-scale Atmospheric Variables

• When Monstrosity can be Beautiful While Normality can be Ugly: Assessing the Performance of Event-based Flood Models

• A GIS Based Approach for Erosion Hazard Mapping of Umkhen Sub Watershed of Kopili River Basin in Northeastern Region of India

• Rail Technology for the Gotthard Base Tunnel

• Red Sea Trough Flood Events in the Negev, Israel (1964–2007)

• FROM THE DESK

  From editor's desk

  • Author: V.K. Kanjlia