Hydropower schemes and pumped-storage
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- Announcements (Forum)
- Course schedule 2025 (File)
- Online lecture notes (in French) (URL)
- Online lecture video recordings from 2021 (in French) (URL)
- Knowledge assessment criteria (File)
Week #01 (19.02) Assessing hydropower potential
- Week#01_Introduction (File)
- Week#01_synthesis (File)
- Accident Sayano-Shushenskaya (File)
- OFEN_SFOE_Excerpt_Map_hydropower_schemes_Valais (2015) (File)
Week #02 (26.02) HPP typologies + design of RoR plants + Hydropower in Switzerland
- Week#02_A_Hydropower_in_Switzerland (intro) (File)
- Week#02_Example_Hagneck (File)
- Week#02_B_Small_Hydropower (intro) (File)
- Week#02_synthesis (File)
Week #03 (05.03) Low- & Medium-head schemes
- Week#03_A_Low-head_schemes (File)
- Week#02_Example_Low-Head_Santo_Antônio (File)
- Week#03_Example_Low-head - 2017 Grand Ecluse SID (File)
- Week#03_Example_Low-head - 2016 PPT Xayaburi EN (File)
- Week#03_synthesis (File)
Week #04 (12.03) Medium-head schemes. Storage purpose and business cases.
- Week#04_B_Medium-Head (File)
- 2025 Week#04 B Storage (File)
- 2025 Week#04 C Turbines (summary) (File)
- 469 Week4 synthesis (File)
Week #05 (19.03) High-head schemes and Pumped-storage typologies
- Week#05_A_High-Head (File)
- Week#05 B Pumped-Storage (File)
- 469 Week5 synthesis (File)
- 1966 EE PHES Campo-Moro ITALIA (historical example) (File)
Week #06 (26.03) Pumped-storage technologies, functions and business cases
- Week#06_A_Pumped-storage (2) (File)
- 469 Week6 synthesis (File)
- Extra_Example_FMHL_Powerhouse_with_vertical_ternary_units (File)
- Extra_example_Voralberg_Illwerke_horizontal_ternary_units (File)
Week #07 (02.04) Surge tanks and other waterhammer control systems
- 2025 469 Week#07 Transients, Water Hammer and Surge Shafts (File)
- The Sayano-Shushenskaya accident (File)
- Paper "HYDRAULIC TRANSIENTS IN HYDROPOWER SYSTEMS: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE" (File)
- Week #07 Synthesis - Surge tanks and other waterhammer control systems (File)
Week #08 (09.04) Water intakes - in reservoirs (and natural lakes)
Week #09 (16.04) Water intakes / reservoir sedimentation in a changing climate
- Reservoir sedimentation in a changing climate (File)
- Sedimentation of a high Alpine Hydropower Reservoir under Climate Change: What will disappear first, the Glacier or the Reservoir? (URL)
Week #10 (30.04) Hydraulic pressure tunnels and shafts (1/2)
Week #11 (07.05) Hydraulic pressure tunnels and shafts (2/2)
Week #13 (21.05) Flood release structures - Spillways
Week #14 (28.05) Additional aspects (River diversion works and Bottom outlets)
Week #14 (28.05) Hydropower mitigation measures
- 2025 469 Week#14 Hydropower mitigation measures (File)
- Conference talk Kyoto Dec 2024 - Sediment replenishment (File)
Exercises
- Group choice (Group choice)
- Exercise 1 (Text and media area)
- Exercise 1: Assignment Materials (Folder)
- Exercise 2 (Text and media area)
- Exercise 2: Assignment Materials (Folder)
- Exercise 3 (Text and media area)
- Exercise 3: Assignment Materials (Folder)
- Exercise 4 (Text and media area)
- Exercise 4: Assignment Materials (Folder)