Small Scale Hydropower Plant Daily Cleaning and Maintenance
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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Omg it’s not a short. Keep up the longer videos. Well done.
Out of all the shorts on youtube his are the best
I know not a verry hich bar but stil
@@Thefreakyfreekthe only shorts on UA-cam you can learn something from! The rest are almost diseducational.
And that's pretty cool
Wanna see something cool??? A WAY long short! (And thankfully, it's not a short, it's OPEN so the angry pixies aren't dancing!)
Right ugh it's so long I love it
Electricity that powers your modern appliances comes from ancient machinery. And thats pretty cool
I see what you did there.
Went from used to mill down grains and corn, to using the spinning and gearing up the motion to make it viable for a generator
@@manitoba-op4jx You're talking about the same power plants that have eons of decades learned and the most modern and redundant systems on the market installed?
@@manitoba-op4jx All electricity tastes the same.
No that’s was something kool, I’m guessing there’s no reverse power relay on that set, or if there is, she’s set kinda lax since it didn’t reject that under speed sync.
PS. I watched your prison story video twice, I really have no words, other than to say, you’re an amazing person, and thank you for sharing “it gets better”, three simple words that mean so much, regards and respect, Michael.
I'm an electrician and was also a trout hatchery worker for 4 years. Im starting to think that maybe a power plant job would be right up my alley lol.
years ago I used to find the infrastructure aspects of my job to be the most important. Examples: boiler house, central refrigeration, water chiller supply, water sanitation (industrial waste).
There was a small facility with one open office/ctrl room and a dozen lockers and a break room. Large aquariums lined one of the walls of it. Outlet water was tested for compliance utilising the fish.
Next to the jungle surrounding the chiller heat exchangers up on a roof that was my favourite part of the plant, including the bicycle ride down there..
So happy to have another longform video
Fun fact, the guac/avocado thing is genetic, most people have the flavor gene to make guacamole taste good but a fair number don't. It's like cilantro. For most people, avocado tastes buttery and cilantro tastes kinda spicy/black-peppery, but if you lost the genetic lottery avocados taste like lawn clippings and cilantro tastes like dish soap.
Those who don’t like cilantro often have a taste for nordic treats I really can’t stand. Salty licorice for instance.
The fresh cilantro tasting like soap mutation also applies to hops.
And then there's people who like lawn clippings and dish soap.
Yick I can't stand cilantro. And avocado doesn't taste like anything to me. Just plain like tofu. 😂
My Mom has the cilantro gene
That screw mechanism to lift the gate is fascinating to watch lol 😂 could watch this stuff for hours.
P.s. I BET that smells AMAZING 😂😂
It’s called a worm drive. :)
You know that weird phenomenon when you can smell a video?
This definitely hits that!
😂 I had that green algi smell on memory
You know for some reason I thought it would smell like transformer ozone from a giant Lionel set
That log strugling to pass through shouldnt be so entertaining
I was seriously cheering for it.
"Go log go!"
*floop*
"Yeeea!"
Flushing gates can be fun. Big trees getting exploded by diffuser blocks.
Up until 2013 the only major purchaser of kale was pizza hut, who used it to decorate the salad bar.
the whole "superfood" thing was always bullshit, just eat real food and not this weight loss garbage
Same thing I always tell people about food: don't overthink it; calories in, calories out, and whatever your doctor tells you to eat. A homemade hamburger with real beef, cheese, and whatever you decide to pile on is ironically better for you than the mega-processed kale chips that people buy in grocery stores. If you really want to be healthy, just stop eating junk.
I keep seeing people go on these "weight loss journeys" by eating exclusively garbage like kale and other artisan greens. My god- barely even 400 calories a day! You're not being healthy, you're starving your body! You're only losing fat because your body has to burn it to stay alive. Just do some pushups, run for a while, and replace the fat with muscle. I can't stand this whole culture of "I want to lose weight but I don't want to put in the work!"
I used to eat some of the decoration.
People forget how much work it is to maintain a wet beaver. :) Love the new red paint on the panels, thank gods you didn't resort to the boring electrical gray!
Well, a 100+ year old wet beaver. (there have been "self-cleaning" grates for many years now. I've only seen them in waste water plants, 'tho.)
WOW compound double worm gear drive, that is reduction right there.
I wonder if the immense reduction is to prevent "water hammering" the river (or whatever the correct term is)
It is sensible to keep it going slow at all times. Alloys weren’t what they are today. No CAD & CAM utilising material science for selection.
But: Planned obsolescence was in the making.
And it can't be back driven so you don't need a brake.
7:24 I love how operating a hydroelectric plant is 50% mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical engineering and the other 50% is basically: “the damn dam designers didn’t give us an instrument to show us how open the bypass gates are so why don’t we cut a triangle out of a beer box, duct tape it to this here chain, and use a magic marker to write some reference marks on a column”
as a hopeless amateur with an interest in sound engineering this place looks like a treasure trove of mineable sounds
If you want i can send you sone interesting macine shop sounds or something
you ain't hopeless, friend!
3:58 forbidden waterslide 😳🤌🏼
0:31 I love the "reactor SCRAM" light XD
He should label it az-5 lol
the one above it.. even better.. radiation in containment level 8... reference from The China Syndrome 🤣🤣 brilliant
there's an a3-5 check out his short@@Iamanidiot-v6i
@@Iamanidiot-v6ithere is one that is labeled like that,
9:09 is when if you paused it right see all the lights they got no clue what they do, so they labeled them funny.
Man I love old style hydro, I really want to build a gristmill in Scioto county but lord knows the epa pricks wouldn't let me because everyone knows it's less damaging on the environment to ship bakers corner flower 400 miles by semi to my local grocery store from the packaging plant + farm to the plant traveling instead of doing local processing 😡 , shout out to the nice folks who restored rockmill on the hocking river but weren't allowed to install the dam but currently have to use a pump to run the largest overshoot water wheel in ohio
Amount of times I was told "you just haven't had good guacamole" "you need to try it at my favorite restaurant" no Megan I don't like avocados. Also there's 3 Mexican restaurants in this town. I'm absolutely certain I've not liked their guacamole either.
Fun Fact:
Guacamole means "testicle sauce."
The more you know......
Guacamole is best used in dishes where it goes unnoticed, like MSG.
Guac is amazing L take
Number of times.
I do the same intake cleaning in the UK for a 2000MW Coal Station.
WOW those control panels look great! The red and yellow color combo is sharp.
I spent 45 years as a power plant electrician, and I've never seen a square synchroscope! Now I can say I have!
Wow, that was pretty cool. 😎👍
Love the old stuff , thank you
so happy to se a longer video,, thank you.
cool video, and i love the new magnet labels, but one thing that bugged me is some of the labels spell out one and two and some use the number 1 and 2, for common understanding i think it should all be in numbers rather than spelled just in case someone who doesnt know english has to use it for some reason, i know its a fringe theroy but it would also look alot better IMHO. :) love the content, glad your back!
As a hydro operator I love seeing how other plants are run.
You guys are very manual, where the stuff I run is very automated.
Also our units are vertical Francis units of much greater size…. The smallest unit I run is 60MW
What a great job. I hope you look forward to going to work every day.. pretty sure I would . But I would clean the grates an hour or two after lunch…
Would love to see how things go when water levels are high after a heavy rain.
How do you coordinate how much to open gates and let the river bypass the hydroelectric
Excellent video as always Chris! Very interesting!
It's VERY interesting to see the workings of the hydro powerplant!
Thank you for posting the videos and letting us in :)
The new labels look great.
Awesome video. You need some proper permanent badging on the panel doors. Im surprised to see the operator not wearing a PFD. I love the new upgraded lock....its totally authentic. 👍🏻
Awesome worm gear drive
Yes, we will say "Cut over when the indicator is moving clockwise, fast"
Good transfer.
Fuck yeah let's get some more long form
Nice video
I just love the way the generator sounds when it spins down and up, but I bet it's pretty loud in there when it's running
Wee little baby generator 😂
I'm definitely not fond of the magnetic labels for that application. Too much chance of something stupid happening for me.
But a temporary marker, while you get a proper one made, and then rivet into position ( none of this glue rubbish, solid metal rivets last a lot longer) it is workable.
Welcome back!
And here we all are
The first thing I thought of when I saw the magnet was demagnetizing arc flash. It made me laugh, they might just cook onto the enclosure. I figure I could tell what was what after a few minutes wandering around. Things do break unexpectedly sometimes, like dominoes. One time an 80 ft steam vent clogged up next to a switchgear. I was setting up some very large motors for a nearby water processing facility to help with a factory next door. A steam vent had gone unnoticed as a hazard because the pressure could never exceed the structural capability of the pipe(plumbing). Maintenance thought it would be a good idea to uncouple the pipe in the adjacent room. This instantly threw a jet of water, kicking the pipe into the MCC room. There it spun the elbow and shot 800 gallons of water under high steam pressure at the steel. Nobody was hurt, except for a perfectly good switchgear. Next month there was a flood. A quarter mile away the whole city was under water. Crazy times, but it was very fun setting up the switchgear and motors for a water processing facility.
I guess that traveling screens wasn't in the budget when the place was built. That generator is old as the hills. That even looked like a BJ 30 voltage control unit.
h*ll when you were talking about Kale I thought back to how it tasted, it tasted just like being tackled in football and hitting the turf with your mouth open, then you said it tasted just like a yard. Great minds think just alike LOL. Kale is on my menu planning right after I start wandering around the yard just eating whatever I find at random.
Oh hell yeah a new video 🤘🏻
Hearing half-a-million watts makes me think we have very different definitions of "Small Scale". XD
Kale as in smoothies? Blearch. But cooked? With Kasseler, Kochwurst, pork belly and a side of potatoes? Also the occasional Schnaps? Give it a try. If too bitter, blanche it first, pour away the water and then cook it. Do not overcook, or else its just so much green goo. Like spinach is.
Ah, I see you're a cultured connoisseur of Grünkohl as well!
What happens during droughts? Can you not open the gate as often to clean the system or do you have to shut the plant down?
Yes! A long form video! Thank you Chris 😊
You are sincerely welcome :) I'm glad you're enjoying them! :) Thank you for being here!
@@Physicsduck I never miss a chance to watch a grid sync. With Florida hurricanes I have synced generators with some success (when the neighbors get together to create a mini power grid) (2 vs 4 pole is difficult for little generators, for me anyway). I bought some Wilmar reverse relays as a beginning to developing something a little more safer and automatic but abandoned that after my solar/battery systems started getting finished.
Was waiting for a "floater" comment with the log... what a shame..
That worm gear is terrifying
Why is the floating debris not guided to where the water overtops the dam through that ever flowing spillway?
Can the weeds be taken out of the grates with a mesh screen dropped in front of the grille
a grille that lifts up (on a winch system)
run over a roller and then inverted to dump the collected weeds out....?
Less dangerous than a man with a rake....
So happy to see more videos of maintaining those small hydropower plants! Just awesome. GIVE US MORE
more long videos!
Cool that as the gate was lowered that the water had to go somewhere, so it went over the nearby weir.
YESSS
Man is so crazy to think about how much stuff is there for just 500kW.
Canned spinach fried in bacon fat with garlic and onion.....YUMMY
Just admit you are using the garlic & bacon to kill the taste of canned spinach...
Vinegar on canned spinach?! Fuggn sign me up!
Another fantastic video, don't stop making them.
My boss taught the golden rule of synchronization: Never close the connection counter-clockwise from the frequency, it could blow the stator due to the difference in frequencies and the load that it suddenly puts in the opposite direction. (Protections may fail)
I've seen generators blow up because of this.
What’s the cord or lanyard he put in?
What's the handles/wire/cable thing that went into the hole "Unit 1 Generator Voltage" and an unmarked hole in the next panel then was removed at 9:05?
I absolutely LOVE videos like this!!
Keep em coming Please?
Double reduction winch, huh? What's the motor RPM?
Oh. You're *opening* a bypass gate.
So, given the 3' by... 10-12'? opening in that bypass, how much head from the upstream do you lose per minute you have the gate up?
Much much cleaner than it was 3 years ago! How's the other plant holding up after the huge refurb project?
I can almost smell that crud through UA-cam
How many bodies have you raked up the grates? Lol
Why is the amp meter lagging behind the watt meter? It shows 50a until it starts to slow down
I wanna see something cool!
0:31 is that a RBWR reference????😂
China Syndrome movie references... 😅 fantastic
Ahhh finally…. The content I’ve been waiting for… love the hydro videos…. Why does that generator sing so loudly?
cogging perhaps? it's got a lotta poles
THANK YOU for posting a longer video.
Question: How many times per year... or month... or week... does this maintenance have to be done? Is it a seasonal thing, or is it by some metric seen in the control room?
I really appreciate what you're doing here. You're one of the few channels I watch shorts for. Love the long videos when they happen. Thanks for showing us this!
Thank you! :) I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and I'm working to make more longforms. Given that I'm trying to make 100% scripted content, with planning and preproduction and such, things move a lot slower. Longforms take at least a month to write and produce. This one was an experiment though, just unscripted and off the cuff. If it does well and people like it, I'll try and make more of them.
To answer your question, this time of year this happens once a day at every plant. In the autumn it's often twice a shift, sometimes more. We have to keep the leaves clear of the intakes, and as you've seen it's a very manual process.
Yellow mustard on spinach.
OH! A new video on hydropower! I love learning stuff from you.
All that stuff scooped up from the cleaning grates should be put in a compost pile next to the powerplant and used to feed a garden there.
Can you do a video explaining how much power the US/World would need to generate to power electric vehicles if everyone switched for ICE Vehicles?
Sabine Hossenfelder might address that approximately. Or Thunderf00t might.
So it's kinda like flushing the toilet of the lake
our plant just changed condenser water sources for our chillers/District cooling heat sink.
before our travelling screens would "roll joints" out of sea weed, with how much came through.
Why do you turn the units off to clean your trash racks (grates)? We clean ours with the units running. If the weeds are bad we close our wicket gates down to about 30% open, just enough to keep the units running. Only on worst occasions do we turn a unit off to clean. Interesting to see how other hydros are doing it.
We do ours running but with that cheesy rake he was using may have been to difficult to dip that deep against flow. Plus it only costs them about $30 in lost gen to shutdown for 20 minutes.
Do you no longer work at the power plant?
When was the last time those worm gears were aligned. Holy cow!!!!
Dam that's a lot of water...I see what you did there!
My favorite labels are the ones for the abandoned instrumentation.
Why do you need two keys to turn on this thing?
OMG just noticed the Radiation in the Containment.. level 8 (perfectly normal) above the Reactor Scram. I absolutely love China Syndrome, I've watched wayyyy more times than I care to admit. Well done! Bow down to your geeky godness even more.
Cooooool! Dude, I absolutely love your shorts and these longer vidyas are pretty great too. Keep em coming, hoss!
I wonder how many cans of spinach people are going to send you now. ;) Anyway, thanks for sharing the whole mucky process.
Vinegar on canned spinach?! Fuggn sign me up!
Pffft, “REACTOR SCRAM” 😂
So much plant mass stuck in those grates! Out of curiosity, was the point of opening that spillway *only* to flush out some of the big debris, or was it also because you had to shut the wicket gate?
You're correct. We have to shut the generator down to clean the grate (Delta-P Yo), so since we're not moving that water, it has to go somewhere. We open the tainter-gate to maintain our proper water level on the river.
@@Physicsduck ahh yes, delta-P. Nothing sticks to the brain more than the delta-p safety video that every workplace mandates you watch... Describes in disastrously high detail the deaths of at least a dozen divers with that pad synth background music. I don't even work with water, I sit at a desk all day and design garbage that either helps society or gets used in the middle east, yet I have to watch the delta-p video anyways.
Lesson? Be the last diver, not the first, and be thankful you aren't crazy enough to be a diver in the first place
Dat gear ratio, though.
No lock out, tag out?
finally an actual video instead of a short
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well he wasn't slowly in the fast direction but at least it wasn't 180 out usually we look for a 12 second revolution before syncing
Epic fail. You didn’t start the video by saying “wanna see something cool?” lol. J/K. Love your content and always look forward to new videos!
If you like spinach, but not guac, you just haven't had good guac yet.
Although I do love a good feed of salad, it`s only the iceberg or Romaine lettuce sort that I care about. A bit of spinach, okay. Kale? No thanks. And seaweed.... no, no seaweed either, please.
Where is the huge WATER INTAKE PIPE, how big is it? Similar, where is discharge pipe? Is there a pipe?
Is that a God Dam?
Completely random question that came to mind while watching you sync to the grid: Is your site capable of a black start, or do you need external grid power before you can come online?