Course Description
Hydropower generates over 63% of Kazakhstan's renewable electricity, and the country is auctioning 150 MW and 50 MW hydro projects with sixty-month commissioning windows. Much of the existing fleet is decades old — which makes modernisation, not new build, the dominant engineering task.
This course develops hydropower capability. Participants learn hydrology and the hydro resource, plant types and configurations, turbine technology and selection, generators and electrical systems, control and governor systems, civil structures including dams and waterways, dam safety and monitoring, operation and maintenance, refurbishment and uprating of ageing plant, and the grid role hydro plays in a system absorbing variable renewables.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Assess hydrology and the hydro resource
- Compare plant types and configurations
- Select turbine technology for head and flow conditions
- Understand generators, electrical systems and governors
- Manage civil structures: dams, intakes and waterways
- Apply dam safety principles and monitoring
- Build operation and maintenance strategy for hydro plant
- Plan refurbishment and uprating of ageing plant
How the course is delivered
The course combines hydropower engineering with operation, maintenance and modernisation exercises using realistic plant configurations and hydrological data.
The programme gives particular weight to refurbishment and uprating of ageing plant and to dam safety, reflecting that most hydro engineering work is performed on assets built decades ago.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Engineers operating and maintaining hydropower plants
- Utility technical staff and plant managers
- Project engineers on hydro development and refurbishment
- Dam safety and civil engineers
- Anyone responsible for hydropower assets
Daily programme
- Hydrology and flow assessment
- Head, flow and power
- Plant types: run-of-river, storage, pumped storage
- Plant configuration and layout
- Turbine types and selection
- Impulse and reaction turbines
- Cavitation and efficiency
- Generators and excitation
- Governor and control systems
- Automation and remote operation
- Dams, intakes and waterways
- Gates, valves and penstocks
- Dam safety principles
- Monitoring and instrumentation
- Operation and maintenance strategy
- Common failures and their causes
- Refurbishment and uprating
- Life extension of ageing plant
- Hydro in a system with variable renewables
- Ancillary services, workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
