Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Latest trends in power transformer technology

  • Author: M. Vijay Kumaran

• Moisture in power transformers - How to estimate and what to Do?

  • Author: Matz Ohlen

• Transformer Testing

  • Author: Matz Ohlen

• Fingerprinting (RLA) of Power Transformers

  • Author: Lars Adeen

• Phase shifting transformers

  • Author: S.V. Kulkarni

• National conference on latest trends in design, testing, RLA studies of transformers (including phase shifting transformers) and other high voltage substation equipments

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Core strength variation of in-situ concrete

  • Author: Rajeev Kumar, Rajeev Gupta, N.K. Khoth

• Sustainable development of hydroelectric power - an overview

  • Author: O.R. Lalitha

• REPORT (R&D)

  “Natural disasters with special reference to Uttarakhand” – Brief report 20 December 2013, New Delhi

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Growth of installed capacity

• Consolidated Table Showing the Details of MI Projects Under AIBP

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  UP - Private power distribution in 4 cities after LS polls

• Act amendment - FOR bat for wide consultations in power distribution

• Grid interlinking - More power to southern states likely from January 2014

• Powergrid to launch aerial surveillance of networks

• India to set up HVDC transmission line with Nepal, Bhutan

• R-Power starts generation from Sasan UMPP second unit

• Tata Power completes restoration work at Mundra plant

• French energy major GDF Suez set to make debut in Indian power sector

• TNERC to come up with solar power tariff soon

• Vijayawada, Mahabubnagar in AP to be developed as Solar cities

• Power ministry to move Cabinet for amending Electricity Act

• A law for private participation in 13 public service areas

• Delhi - DERC turns down TPDDL tariff-hike proposal

• Delhi - Private Discoms demand another tariff hike

• Maharashtra sets up panel on tariff revision for adani owned Tiroda plant

• Delhi - CAG audit of discoms may be inevitable, tariff cut in doubt

• Telengana - Power headache will only split

• Cost of nuclear power using imported fuel proving high, DAE in a fix

• PIL contending Kalpakkam in seismic region dismissed

• New body to monitor Tungabhadra, Almatti water

• Maharashtra gets its first tiger canal crossing at bor

• Centre's backing is a big boost for polavaram project in AP

• Mapping of aquifers

• India gives $3.8 MN for flood control in Nepal

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Chimony dam to BE scanned for faults

• J&K govt floats RFQ for setting up of 23 mini hydro power projects

• Incentives for groundwater conservation

• DDP and DPAP areas

• India has small hydro capacity of 19,749 mw at 6,474 sites

• Hydro power need of hour: experts

• Expert team visits Jangipur area in West Bengal to assess the extent of erosion by river Ganga

• Bengal to instal ‘Early warning system’ for flood

• ICA gives go ahead to Kishenganga project

• Irrigation dept divers to open stuck sluice gate of Choral

• Restoration of old harwan reservoir on in full swing

• Jain irrigation bags world's largest integrated micro irrigation project

• Technologically advanced projects and emerging concerns

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Commissioning Test on the 1000 kV UHV AC Demonstration Project and Operation Monitoring of the Main Equipments

• Impact of Demand-side Technology Readiness on Market Designs

• Tuned Medium-Band UHF PD Measurement Method for GIS

• Current State of On-line Partial Discharge Diagnosis Methods in Hydro-Generator Using a Novel Noise Reduction Method

• Direct Current in Transformers: Effects and Compensation

• Salinity Effect on the Corona onset for a765 Kv AC substation Connector

• Asset Management for Power Cable Systems - Total Cost Optimization Based on the Application of Diagnostics

• On Modeling the Dynamic Response of the 190m-High Tl Tower for the Crossing of Trombetas River in the Amazon Region

• Changes in Requirements for Substation Equipment and Examples of New Technologies Applied to Existing Facilities

• Technical Guidelines for First HVDC Grids - A European Study Group Based on an initiative of the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies

• Dynamic Compensation of Reactive Power by Variable Shunt Reactors – Control Strategies and Algorithms

• Development of Output Control Technologies for a Large-Scale PV System with Battery Storage—Wakkanai Mega-Solar Project

• Lightning Invasion Overvoltage Study for UHVAC Substation

• Consideration on Japanese Market Designs Realizing Low-carbon Society through Advanced Technologies Development

• Modelling Heat Exchange between RCC Dam and reservoir

• CASE STUDY

  Validation of TBM Advance Rate Predictions, with Reference to a Case Study in Iran

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Energy Dissipation of Skimminig Flow Over Stepped Spillways

• Hysteresis of the Hydraulic Jump Controlled by Sill in a Rectangular Channel

• Technical Note: Submergence of Rectangular Orifices and Broad-Crested Weirs

• Improvement of a Drainage System for Flood Management with Assessment of the Potential Effects of Climate Change

• Morphed Block-crack Preferential Sedimentation in a Reservoir Bed: a Smart Design and Evolution in Nature

• Relationship between Bedload and Suspended Sediment in the Sand-bed Exu River, in the Semi-arid Region of Brazil

• EDITORIAL

  From Editor's desk