ARUN 3 HEP PROJECT

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROJECT

VIJAY KARAN
ROLL
NO- 121677

CONTENTS

SJVN-A Profile
About the project
Need of the project
Location of the Project
Project Salient Features
Project components
Diversion Dam
Intake and Desilting Arrangement
Head Race Tunnel (HRT)
Surge Shaft
Pressure Shaft
Power House Complex
Tail Race Tunnel (TRT)

About the Project

The project has been awarded by NEA through
ICB route for implementation to SJVN Ltd., a joint
venture of Govt. of India and Govt. of Himachal
Pradesh. The award is on boot bases for a period
of 30 years; MoU in this regard was signed on
2.3.2008 with an objective of export 78.1% power
for Nepal to India through Arun-DhalkebarMuzaffarpur.The project installed capacity has
been estimated to be 99Mw.The project is
progressing under design of foreign project
wing of SJVN Ltd. & is currently under PLANNING
STAGE.

SJVNL A PROFILE

SJVN Limited, A Mini Ratna & Schedule 'A' PSU under the
Ministry Of Power, Govt. Of India, Is A Joint Venture Between
The Govt. of India & Govt. Of Himachal Pradesh.
Incorporated In The Year 1988, The Company Is Fast
Emerging As A Major Power Player In The Country. The
Present Authorized Capital Of Sjvn Is INR 7000 Crores.
Sjvn Is Successfully Operating the Countrys Largest 1500
Mw Nathpa Jhakri Hydropower Station and Is Setting New
Benchmarks in Generation and Maintenance Year After Year,
After Having Tackled the Silt Erosion Problems in UnderWater Turbine Parts
Beginning From A Single Hydropower Project Company, Sjvn
Today Has A Footprint In A Diversified Set Of Power Projects,
Which Includes Hydroelectric Projects In Himachal Pradesh,
Uttrakhand, Arunachal Pradesh And In The Neighboring
Countries Of Nepal And Bhutan.
The Flagship 1500 Mw Nathpa-Jhakri Hydro Electric Power
Station In Himachal Pradesh Was Commissioned In 2003-04.
Companys Generation Capacity Is Set To Increase With The

NEED OF THE PROJECT

Although gift with tremendous Hydro Power
resources, only about 40% of Nepals population has
access to electricity. Most of the Power plants in Nepal
are of run-of-river type with energy available in access
f in country demand during the monsoon season and
deficit during the dry season. Having immense
potential of Hydro Power development, it is important
for Nepal to increase its energy dependency with Hydro
Power development. The development of Hydro Power
will help to achieve the millennium development goals
with protecting environment, increasing literacy,
improving health of children and women with better
energy. Increased nationwide availability of reliable
electric power will increase productivity, stimulate
Nepals economic development, and reduced reliance
on Nepals primary resource of energy-fuel wood.

Location of the project

The dam site is located on Arun River, a principal
tributary of Sapt Koshi, near Num village and Power
House Site is near Diding Village of Sankhuwashbha
District in Nepal. Various project components are
located on the left bank of the river with its power
house at about 18.5 km downstream from the dam
axis, near to Diding Village. The dam site is located
at about 60 km from Tumlingtar, where exists, an
airstrip connected to Kathmandu to Tumlingtar
airport near Arun-3 project site. Tumlingtar is also
connected by a road with a distance of about 680
km from Kathmandu.

Project Salient Features

1)

PROJECT AREA -

Latitude 27 300N to 27 350N

Longitude 87 120E to 87 200E
- Arun, a tributary of koshi river in
Eastern Nepal
- Near Num village

River
Dam Site

Power house
District

2)

near diding village

- Sankhuwasabha

Reservoir
Maximum water level
Full reservoir level
Minimum draw-dawn level
Total Volume
Surface area at FRL

847.73m
845m
835m
13.94Mm 3
66.3ha

3) Hydrology
Catchment area
Annual avg. flow at Dam site
90%dependable year flows
Design flood
PMF
8880m3/sec
GLOF
6830m3/sec
4)
Diversion Tunnel
Location
Bank
Length
Design discharge
Diameter
shaped gates

26747km 2
296m 3/sec
198.91m 3/sec

Right
466m
1300m^3/sec
11m,circular

5) U/S Coffer Dam

Type
Concrete Dam
Top level
816m
Height
23m

6) D/S Coffer Dam

Type
Rock fill Dam
Top level
797.5m
Height
7.5m

7) Dam
Type
Concrete gravity dam
Top of the Dam
849m
Avg. river bed elevation
790m
Height above deepest foundation level 70m
Length
197.3m

8) Spillways
2nos. slide type gate of size 4.1m(W) 5.5m(H)
9) Head Race Tunnel
Length
11.74km
Diameter
9.5m
Sectional Area
70.88m 2
V design discharge
4.86m/s
Invert level at start
Invert level at end
Bed Slope(avg.)
Design Discharge
Over loading discharge
10) Desilting Chambers

Alignment
Size
Particles size to be removed
Gates
Top Branch
Bottom Branch

818.23m
779.36m
1/300
344.68m3/sec
379.15m3/sec

N19 W
S19 E
4Nos.
420m(L) 16m (W) 24m(H)
0.2mm & above
4Nos.
4.7m 6m
440m, 7m (D-Shaped)
414m ,7m(D-shaped)

12) Surge shaft open to sky

Type
Diameter
Height
Type of Lining
Orifice Diameter

13) Pressure Shaft

Nos. / Type 2Nos. steel lined
Diameter 5.5m
Length-Horizontal length top104.92m
Vertical -259.11m
c/c distance between
75m
Pressure shaft
Inclination with horizontal
7.25m/s
Maximum design discharge
3.58m/s

14) Power house complex

Power house Cavern 192m
Size 10m
Shape Circular
Type of flow Pressure flow
Tail water level 534m
Outfall gates
2nos.fixed wheel
Type gates
15) Tail race
Length of tail race tunnel 192m
Size 10m
Shape Circular
Type of flow Pressure flow
Tail water level 534m
Outfall gates 2nos.
Fixed wheel type gates
Size 6m(W)10m(H)

 PROJECT COMPONENTS

1) Diversion Dam
The diversion dam is envisaged to be a concrete
gravity dam of about 70m in height with its top level at
El 849m, FRL at El 845m and MDDL at El 835m.The dam
is provided with 6 sluice radial gates each of 9m 14m
with one auxiliary spillway gate to surpass design
discharge of 15710m3/sec (PMF of 8880 cumecs plus
GLOF of 6830 cumecs).

2) Intake and Desilting Arrangement

The intake structure shall consist of trash rack with four
bell mouth opening leading to four no. intake tunnels of
6m dia. There are four underground desilting chambers
of 16m24m420m to take care of silt particle more
than 0.2mm.

3) Head Race Tunnel (HRT)

A 11.740 km long 9.5m dia circular concrete
lined HRT has been designed to carry a discharge
of 344.68m3/sec. Four adits have been proposed
to facilitate the construction activities of the
tunnel.

4) Surge Shaft (open to sky)

A 149m high, 24m dia restricted orifice type
surge shaft has been designed to take care of the
maximum surge effect up to El 880m as well as to
minimize slope stabilization.

5) Pressure Shaft
Two vertical steel lined underground pressure
shafts, each of 5.5m dia with bifurcation into four
of diameter 3.2m to feed the four Francis turbine
of 225MW each.

6) POWER HOUSE COMPLEX

An underground cavern of 179.49m long
22.5m wide 49.5m high has been provided to
house 4 units of 225MW Francis turbines(total
capacity 900MW) and spherical type main inlet
valves.
A underground Transformer cavern at elevation
552m of size 153.94m(L) 16m(W) 22.5m(H)
has been provided to accommodate (12+1spare)
nos. single phase 400kV transformers, each of

7) Tail Race Tunnel

One 10m (circular-shape) concrete lined tunnel has

been proposed to discharge the tailrace water directly
into the river

8) Transmission System

The power from the project is proposed to be

evacuated to India through 400kV double circuit
transmission line from Arun 3 project in Nepal to
Muzffarpur in India with LILO of one circuit at
Dhalkebar Sub-station in Nepal to provide GoN power
share.

9) Project Benefits

The annual energy from the project has been assessed as 4018.87 GWh
on 90% dependable basis and design energy as 3924.03 GWh. The
project would provide peaking benefits of 900 MW round the year.

10) Project Cost

The Project is estimated to cost Rs. 44168.2 million are as under:Cost of Generation at July, 2013 Price Level
Civil Works INR 32575.6 million
Electrical Works INR 11592.6 million
Total Cost (without IDC & FC) INR 44168.2 million
IDC INR 12111.0 million
Financing Charges INR 396.7 million
Total Cost of the projectINR 56675.9 million

HYDROLOGY
Objective
To access the water availability of the proposed
project so as to carryout simulation studies for
estimation of power potential.
To determine the probable maximum floods
corresponding to different probabilities so as to
ensure safe passage of food as well as GLOF.
Assessment of sediment inflow into the reservoir
To determine diversion flood for construction
planning
Assessment of sediment inflow into the reservoir
and estimation of sediment load.

Design Flood studies

The design flood and highest flood level are very
much essential for fixing the water way and
foundation depths of any hydraulic structure. For
a diversion structure, 1000-year design flood or
standard project flood value is considered for
hydraulic design and for storage projects,
probable maximum flood or 10000 year return
period flood should be considere
PMF is estimated using hydro-meteorological
approach whereas 10000 year return period flood
is arrived at using flood frequency approach.

Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF)

In Nepal, there have been several instances of GLOF floods
and hence the effect of GLOF on the project components
needs to be considered. The lower Barun Glacial Lake, at
the toe of the lower Barun glacial is only potentially
dangerous lake identified in the Arun sub-basin of Koshi
River basin in Nepal. The lake lies at the foot of mount
Makalu. The Barun Khola starts in the Makalu region and is
one of the major tributaries of the Arun River in Nepal. The
super glacial lake so developed grows bigger in size and in
form of an end moraine dammed lake. At the present the
lake has grown too much bigger size. The surface area of
lake works out to 1.04 approx. km.

The detailed studies have been carried out for assessment

of peak flood due to GLOF by CWC, New Delhi and WAPCOS
Ltd.

Based on the above studies the GLOF value of 6830cumec

POWER POTENTIAL
The study represents the assessment of power
potential and estimation of energy generation of
the Arun-3 H.E. project. The power potential of the
project is based on available head and
discharge(Q) value.
The basic equation of hydropower is
Power, P= 9.81QH (kW)
Where Q= discharge in m3 /sec
H = head in m

Project Parameters

FRL of the reservoir is El 845m.MDDL has been

fixed at EL 835m. TWL is at EL 534m. Annex-13.1
shows the different level of the project.
Heads
The various operating heads in this project are as:
Maximum head :
289.54m
Minimum head :
279.54m
Design head :
286.21m

Efficiency (Generating Units)

For determination of power potential, the following efficiency
applicable for Francis turbine driven generating units are
computed:
Efficiency of turbine 94.5%
Efficiency of Generator 98.5%
Combined efficiency 93.00%
Computation of 90% & 50% dependable years
The planning of hydro-electric plants is based on 90%
dependability criteria. The energy generation per year in M years
is arranged in descending order and the (M+1) 0.9 th year is
taken to represent the 90% dependable year. In Arun-3 the 19 th
ranked year is 90% dependable year. the 50% year is (M+1)
0.5th year would be 11th year as shown in Annex-13.5.
Therefore, 2006-07 comes out to be 90% dependable year &
1993-94 comes out to be 50% dependable year.

COMPUTATION OF INSTALLED CAPACITY (IC)

The power potential with different capacity from
650MW to 1250MW is a step of 50MW in 90%
dependable year is indicated in Annex-13.6. On
observing the hydrological data for the 90%
dependable year, lean period is found to be from
Dec. 1 to March 2, 10 daily period.
For optimization of Installed Capacity, annual
energy generation, Incremental Energy
generation (dkWh), and the ratio of Incremental
Energy generation to Incremental Installed
Capacity (dkWh/dkW) have been computed
during 90% dependable year.

CONCLUSION
The design energy of 3924.03 GWh with 95%
availability of installed capacity in 90%
dependable year shall be considered for
financial evaluation.
Annual energy generation in 90% dependable
year has been computed for energy generation of
900MW (4 225 MW).
Hence the project is feasible as per the annual
energy generation criteria and should be
implemented .