Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Renovation & modernisation of hydro power plants - general overview

  • Author: Rakesh Kumar

• Residual life asesment and RM&U

  • Author: Ashok Thapar, Abha Saini, H.S. Manocha, Rajiv Shahi

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Renovation Modernization and life extension of equipments of hydro power plants

  • Author: G.S. Banga

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Renovation modernization & upgradation (RMU) of hydro power stations

  • Author: Pankaj Kulshreshth

• Silt management under O&M practices at hydro power plants

  • Author: Sandeep Kumar

• Duplex stainless steels: potential runner materials for Indian Hydro Electric Projects

  • Author: G.S. Grewal

• PROCEEDINGS PAPER

  Interactive workshop on operation & maintenance and renovation, modernisation, uprating & life extension of hydro power plants 20 - 21 June 2013

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Uttarakhand disaster - hydro electric projects – a view

  • Author: M.S. Bisaria

• CASE STUDY

  Analysis of pilot channel concept using tractive force ratio approach for river diversion - a case study

  • Author: Ahmad Shadab, Nayan Sharma

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Growth of installed capacity

• Bhadra Dam

• Meeting for speedy development of hydro power

• Applications of geosynthetics in infrastructure projects

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Power ministry's advisory group calls for amending electricity act

• Mundra tariff hike plan faces legal hurdle

• Problem of plenty: rains wash away 4,000 MW of hydro power

• Coal block owner must sell power on long-term contract

• Powergrid seeks nod to implement smart grid plan

• Tata power to invest 500 crore in Jamshedpur

• ATE stays power sops to industries, but tariff hike still likely

• Water levels rise in dams across state

• Rise in global temperatures may impact monsoon, farm yields: report

• India's flood-prone areas to be mapped - but only by 2022

• UK to help bring Arkavathy to Bangalore

• Mandi house tunnel to add to metro glitter

• National TBM record in Himalaya

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Normet India – one stop shop for your tunneling & mining projects

  • Author: Milon Mukhopadhyay

• Alternative rock support system for tunneling & mining

  • Author: Milon Mukhopadhyay

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Onshore and Offshore Transmission Expansion in the European Grid for Large Scale Wind Integration in the North Sea

• Estimation of Efficiency of Modern Excitation Controllers of Synchronous Machines in the Conditions of Physical Model of a Complex Power System and Suggestion of Estimation Technique and Criteria as an Addition to the Iec Standard

• Experience in Information Management and Control of Electric and Magnetic Fields of Electrical Companies

• Network Security for the Automated Substation

• The Restoration of Calver Weir, UK

• Water Resources Development in the Cauvery River Basin, India

• Evaluation of the Inequality of Water Resources

• Estimation of Muskingum Parameter by Meta-heuristic Algorithms

• Extraction of a Representative Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph

• Assessment of Bridge Safety due to Scour by Bayesian Network

• Calibrating a Large-scale Ground Water Model using Spaceborne Remote Sensing Products: A Test-case for the Rhine-Meuse Basin

• Visual Preparation of Hydrological Models

• Fluoride Hazard and Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Semi-arid Upper Panda River Basin, Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Analyzing Stream Hydraulics and Risk of Sedimentation at Lower Reach of the Rupnarayan River

• FROM THE DESK

  From Editor's desk

  • Author: V.K. Kanjlia