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Calculation Form
Project: Mai Beni Hydropower Project
Component: Surge tank
Subject: Hydraulic design
Stability Conditions

3
Design Discharge 8.40 m /s

Headrace Tunnel
2
Length L 3497.13 m C/s Area Aht 3.46 m
Diameter D 2.10 m Wetted Perimeter Pht 6.60 m
Width W Hydraulic Radius Rht 0.53 m
Height to spring level m Flow velocity Vht 2.43 m/s
Manning's roughness coefficient 0.010 Frictional headloss hlt 4.86 m

Surge Shaft
2
Diameter Ds 6.00 m C/s Area As 28.27 m
Factor of Safety F 3.00

Approximating formula given by Ch. Jaeger

LAht Surge ymax 16.03 m

y max  V ht
gAs

hl t
Po  Po
y max 0.30

For maximum upsurge and downsurge, with friction taken into consideration

 2 1 2
y up  y max 1  Po  Po  yup 12.95 m
 3 9 

ydown ymax12Po  ydown (6.31) m

Time of Oscillation

LAs T 338.95 seconds

T  2
gAht
At any time t,

LAht t
y  Vht Sin 2
gAs T
Cross Sectional Area of the Surge Tank (Stability Consideration)
2
V LAht
 F ht
2
As min As,min 15.72 m
2g hlt H  hlt  Diameter Ds 4.47 m
Considered diameter Ds 6.00