CEA Technologies Inc'

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What is CEATI?
A user driven technology solutions and
development program to

• Identify and address technical issues
• Share and gain expertise
• Co-sponsor research and development projects

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CEATI Benefits/Value
Industry Experience - Technical Resource
Tool Cost Leveraging Practical
Application Flexibility of participation
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Participation Interest Group Representatives

• Hydraulic Plant Life Interest Group
• Dam Safety Interest Group
• Water Management Interest Group
• Strategic Options for Sustainable Power
  Generation

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CEATI Hydro Participation North America

• FERC Licensees
• Allegheny Energy Supply
• Ameren UE
• American Electric Power
• Brookfield Power Corporation
• Chelan County Public Utility District
• City of Seattle
• Douglas County PUD
• Duke Energy
• Eugene Water and Electric Board
• Grant County Public Utility District
• Hetch Hetchy Water Power
• New York Power Authority
• Portland General Electric
• Sacramento Municipal Utility District
• Seattle City Light
• Southern Company
• Tacoma Power
• TransAlta Energy Corporation

• US Government
• Bonneville Power Administration
• California Department of Water Resources
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

• Canada
• ALCAN Inc.
• BC Hydro Generation
• Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation
• EPCOR
• FortisBC Inc.
• Hydro-Quebec
• Manitoba Hydro
• Natural Resources Canada
• New Brunswick Power Generation Corporation
• Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
• Ontario Power Generation
• SaskPower

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CEATI Hydro Participation Worldwide

• Europe
• E.ON Wasserkraft GmbH
• Electricite de France (EDF)
• ELFORSK
• ESB (Electricity Supply Board)
• Fortum Generation AB
• Scottish and Southern Energy
• Vattenfall AB

• Australia/New Zealand
• Hydro Tasmania
• Mighty River Power
• Meridian Energy
• Snowy Hydro Limited

• Africa
• ESKOM

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Hydraulic Plant Life Interest Group (HPLIG)

• HPLIG assists hydroelectric utilities to
• Lower costs
• Extend equipment life
• Improve efficiency
• Increase reliability, etc.

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Water Management Interest Group (WMIG)

• Watershed Management
• Hydro-Meteorology
• Operational Optimization Modeling
• Operations/Risk/Safety/Ice/Climate

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• DSIG major completed research, includes
• Risk Assessment Methods
• Seepage and Erosion

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• Risk Analysis Research
• A seven year research project that resulted in
  the book Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety,
  published by Thomas Telford 2004, ISBN 0727732706
• Part I - Guiding Principles
• Part II - Commentary on Risk Analysis
• Part III - Theoretical Considerations

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• Seepage and Internal Erosion
• Developed 3 engineering tools to detect seepage
  and erosion
• Water temperature
• Streaming potential
• Resistivity measurement

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• Seepage and Internal Erosion
• This project resulted in 8 reports, including
• A parameter Study for Internal Erosion Monitoring
  
• Self Potential Field Data Acquisition Manual
• Laboratory Testing of the Streaming Potential
  Phenomenon in Soils
• SP Interpretation Manual
• Resistivity Interpretation Manual
• Long-Term Resistivity and Self Potential
  Monitoring of Embankment Dams Experiences from
  Hallby and Sadva Dams, Sweden
• Engineering Seismic Surveys at a Test Embankment
  Near Seven Sisters, Manitoba
• A Study of Through-Dam Seismic Testing at WAC
  Bennett Dam
• In addition, two software packages were
  developed, SP3D and DamTemp

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• Major Projects in Progress
• Erosion and Breaching
• Non-Destructive Anchor Testing
• Debris Management during Floods
• Impact of Organization Technology on
  Performance (PTO)
• Multi-Fractal Estimates of Flood Frequency
• Reliability of Discharge Facilities

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• Erosion and Breaching
• Phase I - Assemble Data
• Dam erosion failures
• Lab tests
• Assemble and evaluate mathematical formulations
  and numerical
• models of erosion
• Phase II - Develop Predictive Model
• Evaluate and select numerical erosion model
• Incorporate into HEC-RAS flow model
• Develop commercial erodibility test

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• Non-Destructive Anchor Tests
• Uses Spectral Time Domain Reflectometry
• New instrument developed
• Could detect cuts in 1 of 5 strands of a 200
  long anchor
• Instrument needs lower frequency/longer
  integration

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Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG)

• DSIG Workshop Deliverables
• The DSIG would like to
• Get ideas on future research projects
• Identify potential cooperative projects
• Avoid research duplication
• Exchange research results

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Questions?

• Gary Salmon
• DSIG Technology Advisor
• [phone] gmsalmon_at_allstream.net
• Gus Tjoumas
• DSIG Technology Advisor
• [phone] gus.tjoumas_at_ceatech.ca
• Chris Hayes
• Manager, Program Development
• CEA Technologies Inc. (CEATI)
• [phone] chris_at_ceatech.ca