Abstract
According the current hydropower development plan in China, numbers of hydraulic power plants with height over 300 meters will be built in the western region of China. These hydraulic power plants would be in crucial situation with the problems of high water head, huge discharge and narrow riverbed. Spillway is the most common structure in power plant which is used to drainage and flood release. According to the previous research, the velocity would be reaching to 55 m/s and the discharge can reach to 300 m3/s.m during spillway operation in the dam height over 300 m. The high velocity and discharge in the spillway may have the problems such as atomization nearby, slides on the side slope and river bank, Vibration on the pier, hydraulic jump, cavitation and the negative pressure on the spill way surface. All these problems may cause great disasters for both project and society. This paper proposes a novel method for flood release on high water head spillway which is named Rumei hydropower spillway located in the western region of China. This paper has following components: Determining the type and the layout of the spillway through the perspectives of air entrainment, flow jet angle and water energy dissipation in flushing pond structure. The physical hydraulic model has been used to evaluate spillway design effects.
Highlights
In the last few decades, hydropower projects have developed rapidly in China
AbstractAccording the current hydropower development plan in China, numbers of hydraulic power plants with height over 300 meters will be built in the western region of China
These hydraulic power plants would be in crucial situation with the problems of high water head, huge discharge and narrow riverbed
Summary
In the last few decades, hydropower projects have developed rapidly in China. Spillway is the most important structure for releasing flooding and for energy dissipation [1, 2]. India Bukla Hydropower Station, the energy dissipation tank would destroyed when the flood discharge ponds have a lot of hydrodynamic pressure at the bottom of the water. In the United States, the Dvorshkon hydropower station causes the structural destruction of the energy dissipation tank. It is has significantly meaning to study hydraulic characteristic on spillway especially the hydropower projects with high water head and large discharge
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