U.S.-China's Cooperation in Unified Resource Development
This paper reports on activities between China and the United States involving exchange of technical expertise and project development. The paper focuses on how unified resource development...
Efficient Small Hydroelectric Plant Operation
This paper presents a review of operating and maintenance alternatives for small scale hydroelectric plants. The cost of operating a hydro project is largely determined by decisions made...
Optimal Dispatch of Hydroelectric Systems
This paper presents a reliable and computationally efficient method for solving the optimal hydro dispatch problem. Moreover, this method guarantees a true optimal solution when the units'...
Quantifying the Maximum Capability of Hydroplants
A procedure was developed to quantify the maximum hydropower capability. This procedure basically consists of two steps: dividing the total available water into weekday and weekend components;...
Independent Review of Truman Dam Operation
The Truman Dam in Missouri was constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1979 as a pumped-storage facility. Due to fishkill and other controversies, the pumpback feature of the project...
Impacts of Indexed Sequential Hydrological Modeling on Hydrogeneration Capacity Estimation
Indexed sequential modeling (ISM) has been proposed by the Western Area Power Administration as an alternative approach to developing firm marketable capacity (i. e. , project dependable...
The Benefit/Cost Ratio of a Physical Model Study
The discussions of a physical model study often appear first in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ('FERC') consultation process and when appearing later...
Hydroelectric Project Design Using Microcomputers
The main issue in the first stage of a hydroelectric project is to assess the influence of hydrologic parameters on design and optimum sizing of the installation and on future energy production....
Hydro Systems Evaluation on Personal Computers
The programs for selecting the equipment and determining the average annual energy have been separated from the detailed financial analysis. The BASIC language was selected for the first...
Simulation of River Ice Processes on Alaska's Susitna River
A numerical river ice model is applied to an 85-mile reach of Alaska's Susitna River immediately downstream of the proposed Susitna Hydroelectric Project. The model is designed...
U.S./PRC Cooperation on the Three Gorge Project
The Three Gorge Project is the keystone project in developing and using the Yangtze River. It is located on the main stem of the Yangtze River, about 40 km upstream from the Gezhouba Project...
New Runners for Aswan High Dam Power Station
Replacing turbine runners at Egypt's Aswan High Dam Power Station is a major project because of the size, quantity and importance of these turbines to the Egyptian economy....
The Impact of Proposed Federal Income Tax Changes on the Financing of Hydroelectric Projects
The paper presents an overview of the specific proposed changes that would have the greatest direct impact on the hydroelectric power industry. Next, it presents the major conclusions...
TLMRF Research Initiatives
The research initiatives of the EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) structural development project RP2016-03 are described. The interrelationship of these initiatives with cosponsored...
Costs of Truck Related Highway Damage to Alaska
The cost of pavement damage to the State of Alaska for truck traffic continues to be a very controversial topic. There is no simple answer since this cost is dependent upon pavement strength,...
The CBR Test Applied to Processed and Compacted Snow
The processes used during the past two decades to improve the snow bear a modest resemblance to conventional flexible pavement construction, thus the field CBR (California Bearing Ratio)...
Ground Temperature Monitoring Cominco's Red Dog Project
Procedures are available in the literature for estimating subsurface thermal characteristics of foundation soils in cold regions using published climatic characteristics for a given area....
Snow Load Design for Colorado Mountains
During the past decade, Colorado mountain construction has experienced a period of rapid growth. New ski resorts and other business developments have resulted in many new facilities. For...
Characterization of the Dalton Highway Foundation Soils
A case study is presented of the landform-based probabilistic-statistical route geotechnical characterization of natural foundation soils along the Dalton Highway. Landforms were mapped...
Cold Regions Features of the Whittier Access Tunnel
A feasibility study and cost estimate has been prepared for a vehicular tunnel which would form a portion of a highway between the town of Whittier, Alaska and the east side of the Kenai...
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