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Studio Pietrangeli

Venezuela

Uribante Doradas Hydropower

Engineering services for hydropower plant

Venezuela

Uribante Doradas Hydropower

Hydroelectric project with IP = 300 MW.

Tachira state - Venezuela

PLACE

CONINTUR Joint venture: Astaldi Estero, Cogefar, local contractor

CLIENT

1981 - 1983

YEAR

Main Features

  • La Honda Dam, zoned earth fill with central vertical impervious core ( H=140 m; L = 560 m; V = 9.3 Mm³ )
  • Upper Headrace Tunnel ( L = 6.6 km, A = 22 m² )
  • Surge Shaft ( H = 134 m, A = 113 m² )
  • Pressure Shaft, partly steel lined ( H = 271 m, A = 22 m² )
  • Lower Headrace Tunnel ( L = 1.2 km, A = 22 m² )
  • Steel Lined Underground Penstocks ( No. 2; L = 360 m; D = 3 m )
  • Outdoor Power House equipped with two pelton turbines with a distributor of six nozzles ( D = 3.3 m; n = 225 rev/min )
  • Ancillary Works: intake structures, drainage tunnels around the surge shaft, above the penstocks and the lower headrace tunnel, access galleries for construction and inspection purposes

Venezuela

Uribante Doradas Hydropower

Engineering
Services

Overall revision of the final design

Consultancy for the selection and the optimization of the underground excavation and support techniques

Campaign of laboratory and in site tests for the geotechnical characterization of rock masses and the rock bolting methods

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