Intake Analysis

Challenges with Intake Analysis

Engineers often need to consider a range of layouts for hydropower intake design. The optimal design can depend on a range of factors including the type, number and location of intake structures.

Solutions Provided by EEMS

EEMS allows various design alternatives to be accurately modeled for shear stress, velocity and depth to arrive at the best solution. New hydrodynamic options may be built rapidly and model outputs analyzed efficiently, providing the decision makers with a variety of graphical outputs with which to make an informed assessment.

Example Studies

THXP Laos – Hydrodam Expansion Project

The THXP design process considered several layouts for the expansion intakes at their headpond. Existing gates were required to be modified to accommodate the new intake. EEMS was used to simulate the various design alternatives as a basis for evaluation and to make recommendations for the best alternative.