CE 704 · Chapter 6
Hydropower Engineering past question
6.3 Penstocks and Pressure shaft: importance, conditions of their application, general arrangement, hydraulic transients (water hammer), Computation of hydrodynamic pressure, sizing of penstock/pressure shaft and estimation of thickness of steel in penstock/pressure shaft
A penstock of discharge capacity 5m³/s is functioning for a hydropower with dynamic head of 50 m over the turbine. Determine its economic diameter. [2]