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Reservoir sedimentation is increasingly affecting the majority of reservoirs all over the world. As many dams are more than 50 years of age, this problem is becoming more and more seriou403s nowadays. Reservoir sedimentation leads to various severe problems such as a decisive decrease of the active reservoir volume leading to both loss of energy production and water available for water supply and irrigation. These problems will intensify in the very next future, because sediment supply tends to increase due to climate change. Therefore coun-termeasures have to be developed. They can be divided into the three main categories sediment yield reduction, sediment routing and sediment removal. This paper focuses on sediment routing by means of sediment bypass tunnels. Sediment bypass tunnels are an effective measure to stop or at least decrease the reservoir sedimentation process. By routing the sediments around the reservoir into the tailwater in case of flood events sediment accumulation of both bed load and suspended load is reduced significantly. However, the number of sediment bypass tunnels in the world is limited primarily due to high investment and above all maintenance costs. The state-of-the-art design criteria of constructing bypass tunnels are summarized herein; major problems such as tunnel invert abrasion are discussed. The need for further research regarding sediment transport in bypass tunnels and invert abrasion is highlighted.
Reservoir sedimentation, a serious problem affecting the majority of reservoirs worldwide, was not systematically accounted for in the past. After 50 years of operation, a constantly decreasing reservoir volume becomes currently a serious challenge for reservoir owners, against which countermeasures have to be developed. This research focuses on sediment routing using a bypass tunnel to convey sediments past a dam.
By transporting sediments into the tailwater past a dam, their accumulation in the reservoir is reduced significantly. However, the global number of sediment bypass tunnels is limited primarily due to high investment and maintenance cost. The main problem of all bypass tunnels is the massive invert abrasion due to high flow velocities combined with high sediment transport rates. Therefore, VAW started two research projects to counter this problem. The main goal of the first project Layout and design of sediment bypass tunnels is to investigate the invert abrasion process by conducting hydraulic laboratory tests and to establish general design criteria for optimal flow conditions in which both sediment depositions in the tunnel are avoided and the resulting abrasion damages are kept at a minimum. The second project Optimizing hydroabrasive-resistant materials at sediment bypass tunnels and hydraulic structures investigates the hydraulic resistance of different tunnel invert materials, such as high performance concrete or cast basalt plates in prototype tests at the Solis bypass tunnel. The sediment transport measurement technique used in this project was optimized during preliminary model tests.
It has been shown that the beam quality and the efficiency of high-power solid-state lasers could be enhanced by the use of deformable mirrors in order to compensate for optical aberrations. An intracavity compensation requires a deformable mirror which is capable of handling very high laser intensities. The active diameter of the deformable mirror should be a few millimeters in order to match typical fundamental mode laser beam diameters. There is a wide variety of commercially available deformable mirrors, but neither meets all requirements.
Novel unimorph deformable mirror with monolithic tip-tilt functionality for solid state lasers
(2011)
We present a new type of unimorph deformable mirror with monolithic tip-tilt functionality. The tip-tilt actuation is based on a spiral arm design. The mirror will be used in high-power laser resonators for real-time intracavity phase control. The additional tip-tilt correction with a stroke up to 6 μm simplifies the resonator alignment significantly. The mirror is optimized for a laser beam footprint of about 10 mm. We have modeled and optimized this mirror by finite element calculations and we will present design criteria and tradeoffs for this mirrors. The mirror is manufactured from a super-polished glass substrate with very low surface scattering and excellent dielectric coating.
Efficient quasi-three-level laser operation requires the generation of the highest possible pump rate from a given pump source. We derive the fundamental scaling laws for the pump rate and we extract optimization criteria for pump concepts from these laws. The analysis is then applied to the thin-disk laser. Based on the results, a novel pump concept for thin-disk lasers is proposed, which allows for several tens of pump beam passes and reduces the optical complexity of conventional pump concepts. Furthermore, the beam quality of the pump source is preserved almost completely, facilitating the highest possible pump rate.
Demographie und Ökonomie sind unauflöslich miteinander verwoben. Dieser Zusammenhang schlägt nach neuen Untersuchungen zur Zukunftsfähigkeit von Regionen jetzt bis in die Abfallwirtschaft durch. Denn wo sich die Gesellschafts struktur ändert, Menschen älter werden oder wegziehen, dort sind die Auswirkungen in der Mülltonne - und im Klärbecken
Der Qualitätsbegriff im Umfeld der Abfall- und Wertstoffsammlung wurde bislang häufig lediglich mit dem Aspekt der Sortenreinheit und Sauberkeit der erfassten Wertstoffe in Verbindung ge bracht. Derzeit entwickelt sich jedoch auf europäischer Ebene eine Diskussion über die Stan dardisierung und Normung von Dienstleistungen in der Abfall- und Wertstofflogistik (vgl. DIN SPEC 1108-3). Die Intension dieser Standardisierungs- und Normungsbemühungen liegt neben einer grundlegenden Prozessbeschreibung in der Verwendung definierter Qualitätsstandards der Leistungserbringung (sogenannter Service Levels), einerseits im Rahmen von Leistungsverzeichnissen bei Ausschreibungen und andererseits innerhalb von Angeboten seitens potenzieller Leistungserbringer (vgl. Schröter, 2011).
Regional angepasste Lösungen
(2011)
"Der Gesetzgeber sieht für die geplante Wertstofftonne eine bundesweit einheitliche Regelung vor. Aus Sicht des Gesetzgebers ist das wünschenswert, weil vermutlich nur so eine bundesweit einheitliche Ausschreibung durchgeführt werden kann. Ob das auch aus Sicht der Ressourcenwirtschaft sowie der daran Beteiligten sinnvoll ist, steht auf einem anderen Blatt. Regionale Belange sowie regi onal erprobte und bewährte Systeme müssen Berücksichtigung finden, um die Akzeptanz der Bürger, die Vorstellungen der Entschei dungsträger vor Ort sowie ökologische und ökonomische Vorteile zu erreichen."