Prof. Dr. Ing. Joachim Raabe
Dusseldorf VDI-Verlag GmbH 1985.This book is an up to date and largely rewritten account of the subject on which the author has already made an international reputation. The author is a distinguished hydraulic expert who has traveled widely and lectured in many countries on hydraulic machines and hydro power equipment. He has had extensive industrial, research and academic experience and is well known on international technical committees for his valued contributions. This monograph, represents his accumulated wisdom over many years together with accounts of recent researches and advanced course lecture material. The result is a valuable treatise which will help engineers, teachers, advanced students, and many others concerned with the creation and management of hydroelectric installations.Contents:-The origin of hydro power. its potential and its use in a world wide context.
-Economical and other aspects of hydro power and actual examples.
-Survey and classification of essential devices of a hydro power plant.
-The layout of river-run and storage plants with respect to optimized figures such as rated discharge, number of sets and their diameter, storage volume, hydraulic radius of water way and dimensions of electric transmission line.
-Survey of basic hydrodynamics. with special reference to hydro power.
-Prediction of internal flow in cascades and rotor.
-Losses due to vorticity and boundary layers.
-Cavitation and water hammer as detrimental effects.
-Similarity laws, characteristics, research.
-The turbo-machine, its design and construction.
-Regulation of hydro-power sets, the generator.
