Hirakud
H.E Project

Hirakud
1	Name of the Power Station	-	Burla Power House
2	Name of the River	-	Mahanadi
3	Location
	(I) State	-	Odisha
	(ii) Nearest town	-	Sambalpur
	(iii) Distance	-	15 Kms. from Sambalpur
4	Total Installed Capacity of each
	(a) No. of Units	-	7
	(b) Installed capacity of each Unit	-	# 1, 2 - 49.5 MW (After RM &U) # 3,4 - 32 MW (After RM & U) #7 - 37.5 MW , #5, #6 – 43.65 MW (After RM & U)
	(c ) Total Installed capacity	-	287.8 MW
5	Reservoir / Pondage
	a) Name of the Dam	-	Hirakud
	b) Type of Dam	-	Straight Edged Earth Dam
	c) Height of Dam	-	80.96 mt (Max)
	d) Length of Dam	-	4800 mts. (4.8 Kms.) (Total 25.8 km including Dykes)
	e) Catchment area	-	83400 Sq. k.m.
	f) Average Annual Inflow	-
	g) FRL / MWL	-	192.024 Mt (630 ft.)
	h) MDDL	-	179.830 mt (590 ft.)
	I) Storage capacity	-	5896 M.cum (4.78 M.Acft)
	j) Design Energy	-	684 MU
6	Water Turbine
	a) No. of turbines	-	7 (Seven)
	b) Type of turbines	-	Kaplan (# 1,2,5,6,7) Francis (# 3 & 4)
	c) Net Head	-	7 (Seven)
	(I) Maxl. Head ( net	-	35.5 mt.
	(II) Minimum	-	26.5 mts.
	(III) rated / Design Head	-	# 1,2 - 32.3 mt. # 3 & 4 - 30.78 mt.
		-	#5,6 – 31.6 mt. #7- 26.5 mt.
	d) Normal Speed	-	150 rpm
	e) Runaway Speed	-	330 rpm (#1,2& 7) 377 rpm (#3,4) 403 rpm (#5,6)
7	Tail race
	Type of Tunnel / Channel	-	Open channel, Length - 26.72 Km.
8	Generators
	I) No. of Units	-	7 (Seven)
	ii) Type	-	#1, 2 – Semi Umbrella, #3, 4 - Suspended, # 5,6,7- Umbrella Type
	iii) Make	-	#1,2 – GEPIL # 3 & 4 - (Voith Siemens) #5,6 – Voith Hydro # 7- Hitachi
	iv) Voltage	-	11 KV
	v) Current	-	# 1,2 - 3149 amp #3,4 – 1877 amp #5,6 – 2546 amp #7- 2187 amp
	vi) Power Factor	-	0.9