Blog on hydro power plant (Part 1- Selection of site and introduction)

PART 1- Selection of site and introduction

PART 2- Working of plant and parts

 

Blog on hydro power plant (Part 1- Selection of site and introduction)

While selecting a suitable site for a hydro-electric power plant, if a good system of natural storage-lakes at high altitudes and with large catchment areas can be located, the plant will be comparatively economical.

Anyhow the essential characteristics of a good site are:

      1. large catchment area, 

      2.high average rain fall and

  3.favorable place for constructing the storage or reservoir.

   4. The land should be cheap in cost and rocky in order to withstand the weight of large building and heavy machinery.

  5.    There should be possibility of providing adequate transportation facilities so that the necessary equipment and machinery could be easily transported.

INTRODUCTION

Power system mainly contains three parts namely generation, transmission and distribution. Generation means how to generate electricity from the available source and there are various methods to generate electricity but in this article we only focused on generation of electricity by the means of hydro or water (hydro power plant). As we know that the power plant is defined as the place where power is generated from a given source, so here the source is hydro that’s why we called it hydro power plant .

 In hydro power plant we use gravitational force of fluid water to run the turbine which is coupled with electric generator to produce electricity. This power plant plays an important role to protect our fossil fuel which is limited, because the generated electricity in hydro power station is the use of water which is renewable source of energy and available in lots of amount without any cost. The big advantage of hydro power is the water which the main stuff to produce electricity in hydro power plant is free, it not contain any type of pollution and after generated electricity the price of electricity is average not too much high.

IN PART 2 THERE IS EXPLANATION AND VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND 

 

FROM   ...ABDUR REHMAN CHHAPRA...