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Dams of the Future
- Increasing fivefold the discharge capacity of free-flow spillways
- Which dams for Africa?
- Bulletin: “cost savings in dams”
- Dams less than thirty meters high
- Dam construction sites accident prevention
- ICOLD studies on dams cost savings opportunities
- Legislation or regulation on safety may be detrimental to safety
- Dam design and construction, reservoirs and balancing lakes
- The role of dams in the XXI century
- Some data on hydropower (onshore and offshore)
Flood and Spillway
- Combined Innovative Spillways: associating Concrete fuse plugs with PK Weirs increases by 60 % the capacity of the spillway Piano Key Weir and by 300 % the discharge of a Creager sill
- Low cost spillways to increase safety and storage: the Concrete fuse plugs
- Flood discharge works for low irrigation dams: six innovative solutions
- The impact of regulations on dam safety is questionable
- Concrete fuse plugs: data for an easy design
- Concrete fuse plugs
- Collapsible gates and Labyrinth Weirs for new or existing dams
- Efficiency, cost and utilization of various fuse devices and Labyrinth Weirs
- Shall we forget the traditional « design flood »?
- New methods and criteria for designing spillways could reduce risks and costs significantly
- General status of reservoir and dam safety in China
- Classification of reported failures (excluding China & USSR)
- Spillways – ICOLD bulletin on cost savings
Future of Energy
- Hydropower Plants may increase from 1 300 GW to 5 000 GW
- A new presentation of energy data for a 2050 scenario
- Suggestion for a world agreement on energy
- Some comments on the future world energy
Low Dams
Piano Keys Weirs
- Piano Key Weirs (PK Weirs) triple the spillways discharge
- Piano Keys Weirs (PK weirs) could be used for most African spillways
- New Labyrinth Weirs triple the spillways discharge
- Labyrinth Weir
- PK Weir – design of a new economic shape of weir
- The Piano Keys Weir: a new cost-effective solution for spillways
Siltation
- Sedimentation management in hydro reservoirs
- Dams with significant siltation problems
- Cost savings in dams (draft of ICOLD bulletin)
Tidal Energy
- New Tidal Energy solutions (Q.96 ICOLD 25th Congress – Stavanger)
- New promising solutions for Tidal Energy (26th ICOLD Congress – Q.96)
- Tidal Gardens May Supply Ten Per Cent Of World Electricity
- A new solution may supply 200 GW of tidal energy in 10 Asian countries
- A new solution may double the worldwide potential of tidal energy and half its cost
Water Savings (Nile, Niger ...)
- Low cost technologies to improve reservoirs storage
- It is possible to increase by over thirty per cent the nile water availability
- The potential roles of major African rivers