Small Scale Hydropower Plant Daily Cleaning and Maintenance

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@TechAnalys1s Ай бұрын

Omg it’s not a short. Keep up the longer videos. Well done.

@Thefreakyfreek Ай бұрын

Out of all the shorts on youtube his are the best I know not a verry hich bar but stil

@TheMW2informer Ай бұрын

@@Thefreakyfreekthe only shorts on KZfaq you can learn something from! The rest are almost diseducational.

@croman191 Ай бұрын

And that's pretty cool

@trevorvanbremen4718 Ай бұрын

Wanna see something cool??? A WAY long short! (And thankfully, it's not a short, it's OPEN so the angry pixies aren't dancing!)

@simonsaysdie3155 19 күн бұрын

Right ugh it's so long I love it

@LSD97123 Ай бұрын

Electricity that powers your modern appliances comes from ancient machinery. And thats pretty cool

@theradioweyr 29 күн бұрын

I see what you did there.

@christianterrill3503 6 күн бұрын

Went from used to mill down grains and corn, to using the spinning and gearing up the motion to make it viable for a generator

@Wardevil80 Ай бұрын

I'm an electrician and was also a trout hatchery worker for 4 years. Im starting to think that maybe a power plant job would be right up my alley lol.

@-r-495 18 күн бұрын

years ago I used to find the infrastructure aspects of my job to be the most important. Examples: boiler house, central refrigeration, water chiller supply, water sanitation (industrial waste). There was a small facility with one open office/ctrl room and a dozen lockers and a break room. Large aquariums lined one of the walls of it. Outlet water was tested for compliance utilising the fish. Next to the jungle surrounding the chiller heat exchangers up on a roof that was my favourite part of the plant, including the bicycle ride down there..

@LenKusov Ай бұрын

Fun fact, the guac/avocado thing is genetic, most people have the flavor gene to make guacamole taste good but a fair number don't. It's like cilantro. For most people, avocado tastes buttery and cilantro tastes kinda spicy/black-peppery, but if you lost the genetic lottery avocados taste like lawn clippings and cilantro tastes like dish soap.

@-r-495 18 күн бұрын

Those who don’t like cilantro often have a taste for nordic treats I really can’t stand. Salty licorice for instance.

@randacnam7321 16 күн бұрын

The fresh cilantro tasting like soap mutation also applies to hops.

@jay78862 Ай бұрын

So happy to have another longform video

@EddieTheH Ай бұрын

You know that weird phenomenon when you can smell a video? This definitely hits that!

@chazlabreck Ай бұрын

😂 I had that green algi smell on memory

@godlugner5327 27 күн бұрын

You know for some reason I thought it would smell like transformer ozone from a giant Lionel set

@mxslick50 Ай бұрын

People forget how much work it is to maintain a wet beaver. :) Love the new red paint on the panels, thank gods you didn't resort to the boring electrical gray!

@jfbeam 27 күн бұрын

Well, a 100+ year old wet beaver. (there have been "self-cleaning" grates for many years now. I've only seen them in waste water plants, 'tho.)

@m4tik539 Ай бұрын

0:31 I love the "reactor SCRAM" light XD

@Iamanidiot-v6i Ай бұрын

He should label it az-5 lol

@hifiandrew Ай бұрын

the one above it.. even better.. radiation in containment level 8... reference from The China Syndrome 🤣🤣 brilliant

@dragonfireproductions790 26 күн бұрын

there's an a3-5 check out his short@@Iamanidiot-v6i

@chieffirefigherplays 25 күн бұрын

@@Iamanidiot-v6ithere is one that is labeled like that,

@AS34N Ай бұрын

That screw mechanism to lift the gate is fascinating to watch lol 😂 could watch this stuff for hours. P.s. I BET that smells AMAZING 😂😂

@SharpBalisong 28 күн бұрын

It’s called a worm drive. :)

@michaelladue5655 Ай бұрын

WOW compound double worm gear drive, that is reduction right there.

@MegaFPVFlyer 29 күн бұрын

I wonder if the immense reduction is to prevent "water hammering" the river (or whatever the correct term is)

@-r-495 18 күн бұрын

It is sensible to keep it going slow at all times. Alloys weren’t what they are today. No CAD & CAM utilising material science for selection. But: Planned obsolescence was in the making.

@tsm688 Ай бұрын

as a hopeless amateur with an interest in sound engineering this place looks like a treasure trove of mineable sounds

@Thefreakyfreek Ай бұрын

If you want i can send you sone interesting macine shop sounds or something

@olivermatich2818 Ай бұрын

you ain't hopeless, friend!

@esven9263 Ай бұрын

Up until 2013 the only major purchaser of kale was pizza hut, who used it to decorate the salad bar.

@cherrypepsi2815 4 күн бұрын

the whole "superfood" thing was always bullshit, just eat real food and not this weight loss garbage Same thing I always tell people about food: don't overthink it; calories in, calories out, and whatever your doctor tells you to eat. A homemade hamburger with real beef, cheese, and whatever you decide to pile on is ironically better for you than the mega-processed kale chips that people buy in grocery stores. If you really want to be healthy, just stop eating junk. I keep seeing people go on these "weight loss journeys" by eating exclusively garbage like kale and other artisan greens. My god- barely even 400 calories a day! You're not being healthy, you're starving your body! You're only losing fat because your body has to burn it to stay alive. Just do some pushups, run for a while, and replace the fat with muscle. I can't stand this whole culture of "I want to lose weight but I don't want to put in the work!"

@who_is_joe Ай бұрын

That log strugling to pass through shouldnt be so entertaining

@jaymzx0 29 күн бұрын

I was seriously cheering for it. "Go log go!" *floop* "Yeeea!"

@charlesdeilke8364 17 күн бұрын

Flushing gates can be fun. Big trees getting exploded by diffuser blocks.

@Xsiondu Ай бұрын

Amount of times I was told "you just haven't had good guacamole" "you need to try it at my favorite restaurant" no Megan I don't like avocados. Also there's 3 Mexican restaurants in this town. I'm absolutely certain I've not liked their guacamole either.

@darkwater72 Ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Guacamole means "testicle sauce." The more you know......

@Bobo-ox7fj Ай бұрын

Guacamole is best used in dishes where it goes unnoticed, like MSG.

@3a.m.284 15 күн бұрын

Guac is amazing L take

@JackSinger Ай бұрын

WOW those control panels look great! The red and yellow color combo is sharp.

@philmccole4309 Ай бұрын

I spent 45 years as a power plant electrician, and I've never seen a square synchroscope! Now I can say I have!

@gameexpert385 Ай бұрын

I just love the way the generator sounds when it spins down and up, but I bet it's pretty loud in there when it's running

@justjoe7313 Ай бұрын

It's VERY interesting to see the workings of the hydro powerplant! Thank you for posting the videos and letting us in :)

@wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695 Ай бұрын

Man I love old style hydro, I really want to build a gristmill in Scioto county but lord knows the epa pricks wouldn't let me because everyone knows it's less damaging on the environment to ship bakers corner flower 400 miles by semi to my local grocery store from the packaging plant + farm to the plant traveling instead of doing local processing 😡 , shout out to the nice folks who restored rockmill on the hocking river but weren't allowed to install the dam but currently have to use a pump to run the largest overshoot water wheel in ohio

@316neil Ай бұрын

Yes! A long form video! Thank you Chris 😊

@Physicsduck Ай бұрын

You are sincerely welcome :) I'm glad you're enjoying them! :) Thank you for being here!

@theradioweyr 29 күн бұрын

@@Physicsduck I never miss a chance to watch a grid sync. With Florida hurricanes I have synced generators with some success (when the neighbors get together to create a mini power grid) (2 vs 4 pole is difficult for little generators, for me anyway). I bought some Wilmar reverse relays as a beginning to developing something a little more safer and automatic but abandoned that after my solar/battery systems started getting finished.

@MattTrevett Ай бұрын

Cool that as the gate was lowered that the water had to go somewhere, so it went over the nearby weir.

@Perri_Redder Ай бұрын

The first thing I thought of when I saw the magnet was demagnetizing arc flash. It made me laugh, they might just cook onto the enclosure. I figure I could tell what was what after a few minutes wandering around. Things do break unexpectedly sometimes, like dominoes. One time an 80 ft steam vent clogged up next to a switchgear. I was setting up some very large motors for a nearby water processing facility to help with a factory next door. A steam vent had gone unnoticed as a hazard because the pressure could never exceed the structural capability of the pipe(plumbing). Maintenance thought it would be a good idea to uncouple the pipe in the adjacent room. This instantly threw a jet of water, kicking the pipe into the MCC room. There it spun the elbow and shot 800 gallons of water under high steam pressure at the steel. Nobody was hurt, except for a perfectly good switchgear. Next month there was a flood. A quarter mile away the whole city was under water. Crazy times, but it was very fun setting up the switchgear and motors for a water processing facility.

@Venoli Ай бұрын

So happy to see more videos of maintaining those small hydropower plants! Just awesome. GIVE US MORE

@andymcnabb6115 29 күн бұрын

As a hydro operator I love seeing how other plants are run. You guys are very manual, where the stuff I run is very automated. Also our units are vertical Francis units of much greater size…. The smallest unit I run is 60MW

@curtmcbee2238 26 күн бұрын

7:24 I love how operating a hydroelectric plant is 50% mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical engineering and the other 50% is basically: “the damn dam designers didn’t give us an instrument to show us how open the bypass gates are so why don’t we cut a triangle out of a beer box, duct tape it to this here chain, and use a magic marker to write some reference marks on a column”

@Cragified 27 күн бұрын

My favorite labels are the ones for the abandoned instrumentation.

@LumpyFPV 5 күн бұрын

Cooooool! Dude, I absolutely love your shorts and these longer vidyas are pretty great too. Keep em coming, hoss!

@FailedSquare 15 күн бұрын

that worm gear gate lifting mechanism might be the most satisfying thing ive watched all month

@TomFynn Ай бұрын

Kale as in smoothies? Blearch. But cooked? With Kasseler, Kochwurst, pork belly and a side of potatoes? Also the occasional Schnaps? Give it a try. If too bitter, blanche it first, pour away the water and then cook it. Do not overcook, or else its just so much green goo. Like spinach is.

@CranialMalfunction 17 күн бұрын

Ah, I see you're a cultured connoisseur of Grünkohl as well!

@jlvcm Ай бұрын

Another fantastic video, don't stop making them. My boss taught the golden rule of synchronization: Never close the connection counter-clockwise from the frequency, it could blow the stator due to the difference in frequencies and the load that it suddenly puts in the opposite direction. (Protections may fail) I've seen generators blow up because of this.

@TsunauticusIV Ай бұрын

THANK YOU for posting a longer video.

@craignehring Ай бұрын

I absolutely LOVE videos like this!! Keep em coming Please?

@magic.marmot 20 күн бұрын

Oh man, the sound of that generator spooling up is music.

@hartsfire5706 Ай бұрын

so happy to se a longer video,, thank you.

@0dbm Ай бұрын

Love the old stuff , thank you

@trash365247 Ай бұрын

That’s a great video. Love seeing the everyday things that need to be done

@butwhytharum Ай бұрын

our plant just changed condenser water sources for our chillers/District cooling heat sink. before our travelling screens would "roll joints" out of sea weed, with how much came through.

@magic.marmot 20 күн бұрын

OH! A new video on hydropower! I love learning stuff from you.

@LumpyFPV 5 күн бұрын

3:58 forbidden waterslide 😳🤌🏼

@mauricechrupek9944 25 күн бұрын

Fantastic labeling

@evilsideracing Ай бұрын

Love these long videos you make. Awesome

@VariacManiac Ай бұрын

You did an excellent job on the labeling & paint!

@thedragonhunter Ай бұрын

finally an actual video instead of a short

@smartazz Ай бұрын

That was awesome 😎

@seamusjohnson2621 Ай бұрын

Excellent video as always Chris! Very interesting!

@LumpyFPV 5 күн бұрын

HELL YEAH T-BONE

@link12313 Ай бұрын

All that stuff scooped up from the cleaning grates should be put in a compost pile next to the powerplant and used to feed a garden there.

@Daikael 25 күн бұрын

Loved the REACTOR SCRAM light.

@DirtBikeBoy5ive Ай бұрын

I love it

@DrewMarold 29 күн бұрын

The new labels look great.

@Ycytd5d78vcy Ай бұрын

When was the last time those worm gears were aligned. Holy cow!!!!

@seandonnelly6823 Ай бұрын

Love the red on the cabinets it looks decent

@KudoYoung Күн бұрын

Cool Video. I work in a small heating plant. Just saturated steam generation no cogeneration with superheat or turbines.

@douglascalhoun6471 Ай бұрын

Fascinating, I always wondered how maintenance was done on a hydroelectric unit.

@bdot02 27 күн бұрын

Ooh, something cool to see!

@maxhearld1035 29 күн бұрын

Oh hell yeah a new video 🤘🏻

@barlink7495 Ай бұрын

Your paint job came out well. Nice video

@Tsiikki Ай бұрын

That was pretty cool!

@bobbysenterprises3220 Ай бұрын

Awesome worm gear drive

@oddball_the_blue Ай бұрын

And that's pretty cool.

@MrSamdavidgm350 15 күн бұрын

Wow that pretty cool!

@bentr0n Ай бұрын

Pffft, “REACTOR SCRAM” 😂

@fatman123526 Ай бұрын

Wee little baby generator 😂 I'm definitely not fond of the magnetic labels for that application. Too much chance of something stupid happening for me.

@SeanBZA Ай бұрын

But a temporary marker, while you get a proper one made, and then rivet into position ( none of this glue rubbish, solid metal rivets last a lot longer) it is workable.

@kyleritchie1100 29 күн бұрын

Yaaay! A long format video!

@stolz_ar Ай бұрын

That's pretty cool.

@realfoggy Ай бұрын

Dam that's a lot of water...I see what you did there!

@stefan6256 Ай бұрын

Reactor Scram! I love it

@hifiandrew Ай бұрын

One above it's even better LOL

@allenshepard7992 Ай бұрын

Yes, we will say "Cut over when the indicator is moving clockwise, fast" Good transfer.

@baileygray404 25 күн бұрын

I laughed so much at the avocado bit. You're absolutely right and it's why I can't do it either. 😂

@paleoph6168 Ай бұрын

Welcome back!

@Deiphobuzz Ай бұрын

Was waiting for a "floater" comment with the log... what a shame..

@n2nitro444 29 күн бұрын

Fuck yeah let's get some more long form

@davidgrisez 14 күн бұрын

It sure looks like that Hydro power plant is very old. I find it interesting how fast a hydro unit can be brought up to speed and synchronized to the line. That is nothing like the steam electric generating stations I used to work in that took about 12 hours to go from a cold start to generating significant amounts of power.

@TechOne7671 Ай бұрын

That was good to see. Give us more detail on the startup and sync of the machine. Cheers

@mxslick50 Ай бұрын

He already has a video detailing startup and sync on this channel.

@ScottSavageKC7WDG Ай бұрын

Nice video

@-r-495 18 күн бұрын

Thank you for this long format, happy you didn’t find a floater whilst cleaning the rake. I like the new labels, I hope you didn’t take a past comment as critique but as inspiration 😊 Stringent change ctrl can be a nuisance, especially when one is upgrading a plant but can’t test the implementation before.

@-r-495 18 күн бұрын

I was wondering how efficient the turbine is and if there are any feasible upgrades that could make the plant more efficient. I recall our turbine had a few different variables that influenced the geometry of the nozzle and the turbine itself. The plant had been upgraded in the 1980s and we had the task of upgrading it forty years later.

@jakelangevin301 Ай бұрын

And here we all are

@MacPoop Ай бұрын

Much much cleaner than it was 3 years ago! How's the other plant holding up after the huge refurb project?

@joeschulz7997 Ай бұрын

Awesome video. You need some proper permanent badging on the panel doors. Im surprised to see the operator not wearing a PFD. I love the new upgraded lock....its totally authentic. 👍🏻

@billliscombe2912 Ай бұрын

I do the same intake cleaning in the UK for a 2000MW Coal Station.

@hifiandrew Ай бұрын

OMG just noticed the Radiation in the Containment.. level 8 (perfectly normal) above the Reactor Scram. I absolutely love China Syndrome, I've watched wayyyy more times than I care to admit. Well done! Bow down to your geeky godness even more.

@u574254 Ай бұрын

What a great job. I hope you look forward to going to work every day.. pretty sure I would . But I would clean the grates an hour or two after lunch…

@Minemac2 Ай бұрын

That worm gear is terrifying

@joshuavandepol9045 29 күн бұрын

Labels look Great! Colour choice is really nice, If it were up to me though I'd go with a more we'll say "period appropriate" font type. Something antique but sexy, like the rest of the place lol

@boudreauxlee8090 Ай бұрын

Damn finally. A new video

@ethant8967 7 күн бұрын

I would love to see your explanation of why KWh is a bad unit for measuring the usage of power. Thanks.

@jessicalawson1417 29 күн бұрын

Agree 💯 that guacamole tastes like lawn

@mechguy83 28 күн бұрын

neat!

@IndianaDipper194 19 күн бұрын

cool video, and i love the new magnet labels, but one thing that bugged me is some of the labels spell out one and two and some use the number 1 and 2, for common understanding i think it should all be in numbers rather than spelled just in case someone who doesnt know english has to use it for some reason, i know its a fringe theroy but it would also look alot better IMHO. :) love the content, glad your back!

@rogervanbommel1086 Ай бұрын

0:31 is that a RBWR reference????😂

@hifiandrew Ай бұрын

China Syndrome movie references... 😅 fantastic

@jjackle6431 Ай бұрын

Your control panel labeling looks really slick. Love seeing a well-kept facility! What year was the plant built?

@blaydCA Ай бұрын

Just like MY toilet! The dam logs just won't FLUSH! 😂

@user-ld7wh2ff4m 28 күн бұрын

I'm guessing you were in prison at one time or another.

@mtnman1984 Ай бұрын

Thought I could "smell the video", but my dog just farted.

@crazzyearl 26 күн бұрын

well he wasn't slowly in the fast direction but at least it wasn't 180 out usually we look for a 12 second revolution before syncing

@Jupiter-rs4zl Ай бұрын

YESSS

@jame358 Ай бұрын

the only downside about spinach is you can cook a whole bag and it shrivles down to nothing. thats why you gotta get two bags.

@lightingnut 29 күн бұрын

So you have 2 power plants you take care of? Interesting videos, keep them coming.

@mikeybhoutex Ай бұрын

Question: How many times per year... or month... or week... does this maintenance have to be done? Is it a seasonal thing, or is it by some metric seen in the control room? I really appreciate what you're doing here. You're one of the few channels I watch shorts for. Love the long videos when they happen. Thanks for showing us this!

@Physicsduck Ай бұрын

Thank you! :) I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and I'm working to make more longforms. Given that I'm trying to make 100% scripted content, with planning and preproduction and such, things move a lot slower. Longforms take at least a month to write and produce. This one was an experiment though, just unscripted and off the cuff. If it does well and people like it, I'll try and make more of them. To answer your question, this time of year this happens once a day at every plant. In the autumn it's often twice a shift, sometimes more. We have to keep the leaves clear of the intakes, and as you've seen it's a very manual process.