BOOKLET ENTITLED, "INSTITUTE OF WATER ECONOMY AND HYDRAULICS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF UZBEK, SSR"

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The Institute of Water Economy and 'Hydraulics of the Academy of Science of the Uzbek SSR. The Institute was founded in 1925 under the name of the Central Asian Scientific Research Irrigation Institute to provi- de the irrigation engineering of Central Asia with tasks for the experimental part of the research work. The scope of the scientific research work in water econo- my was greatly enlarged after the Academy of Science in Uzbekistan was established in 1943. At present the work of the Institute involves all the problems dealing with the study ?and utilization of water resources, construction and maintenan- ce of water diversion works, hydraulic structures, irrigation and drainage systems. The Institute serves all the water organizations and at the same time carries out theoretical and experimental work in all branches of hydraulics and reclamation. The Institute is composed of the following departments and laboratories: L-'1. Department. of Hydrology and Water Resources, L/2. Department of Complex Problems and Water Power En- gineering, ?-3. Irrigation and Reclamation Department, L/ 4. River Beds Department, Laboratory of Intake Structures, 2 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 L7- 6. Laboratory oi Structure Hydraulics, L../- 7. Experimental Wave Action Laboratory, 8. Soil Science and Soil Mechanics Laboratory, ,\/? 9. Department of Hydraulic ?Structures and Seepage Flow,. z10. Laboratory of Building Materials, Mechanization .Department, --12. Laboratory of Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Struc- tures, .\.713. Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery, 1_714. Laboratory of Water Gauge Sets. Fig. 2. A Plan of the Institute: ? main building; 2 ? the Laboratory of Intake Structures; 3 ? Experimental Wave Ac, tion Laboratory; 4 ?Laboratory of Buildinz Materials, Soil Mechanics, Analytical and others; 5? Experimental Mechanical Work-Shop of precision Instruments; 6 ? Laboratory Water Gauge Sets; 7? Laboratory of Prefabricated Structures; 8 ? Calibrating Station; 9? Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery; 10? Pumping Station; 11 ? Laboratory of River Beds: 12?Laboratory of Soil Science, Seepage Flow and other departments; 13 ?Building of the Laboratory of Hydraulics and Hydromechanics now being designed; 14 ? Experimental Models. *793 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 PROBLEMS THE INSTITUTE IS SOLVING AND THE IMPORTANT RESULTS ACHIEVED Problem 1. Scientific principles underlying the complex utilization of water resources in Uzbekistan The Department of Hydrology and Water Resources car- ries out research work on the problems of water resources and flow formation, it studies the river flow regimes, works out the methods for hydrological estimations and solves ques- tions of water balance of irrigated areas. On the basis of the studies of the Central Asian rivers flow and observing their regime fluctuations the rules for flow control are derived and the main characteristics established. This brought about the further development of methods for approximate determination of river flow characteristics for the -unexplored regions of Central Asia. The role of various sources of river water supply is made clear and it was ascertained that it is not glacier but snow that plays the leading part. The research work is going on the problem of .water los- ses from the water table of reservoirs on the territory of Uzbekistan. The estimation of the Sir-Darya river water ba- lance is drawn up on the section just above the Chardar Reservoir for further necessary construction of water power .and irrigation works. Water power cadastre of the rivers of Uzbekistan and sur- rounding regions is being completed. The Department of Complex Problems and Water Po- wer Engineering works on the questions of complex utiliza- tion of surface and underground water resources in the nati- onal economy of Uzbekistan (in the first place for irrigation needs, water supply and water power), bringing out the ba- sic points and methods for drawing up schemes for complex utilization of the Central Asian rivers and dealing also with .control and regulation problems of river flow along with water power estimations. This Department derived a method for drawing up schemes for the purpose of pump irrigationw ith complex utilization of water resources. 4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 In accordance with the newly obtained experimental data a plan-scheme for the development of irrigation along the- mean flow of the Amu-Darya river is in preparation; in the valleys of the Zeravshan and Kashka-Darya rivers pumping irrigation and gravity flow irrigation zones are set up together with the techno-economical reasons and a plan-scheme for subdividing the territory into zones is worked out. Problem 2. Irrigation and Reclamation The Department of Irrigation and Reclamation works on the following general problems: technique and machinery for irrigation of agricultural crops, control of canal silting and its overgrowing, reduction of the maintenance costs, on reclama- tion problems of saline soils by means of horizontal surface and underground drainage and vertical drills. Fig. 3. A field irrigated by long furrows. This Department introduces: a method of estimating the elements for furrow irrigation, sprinkling of cotton plants, de- vices for increasing the labour efficiency ? such as pipes, si- phons (rubber tubes), portable pipelines; methods for designing Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 4. Irrigation by sprinkling. Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 a Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 5. Portable pipeline. Fig. 6 Horizontal open drain. 793 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22: CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : DIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 and practical execution of levelling as well as extention of irrigated areas; the Department also worked out methods of estimation and construction of vertical drainage; it derived a method for estimating the horizontal drainage by ? water balan- ce equalization and construction of temporary drains. ? Fig. 7. Vertical drainage pump. Problem 3. Study of the River Bed Courses, Water Intake Structures and Hydraulics of Structures The Department of River Beds in engaged in studying the rivers of Central Asia with the aim of drawing up me- thods to regulate river beds, to estimate silting process and washing of upstreams and downstreams of headworks as well as to estimate the scouring of beds along the great length in dams downstreams; in is occupied in compiling the methods for estimating the ice regime on river sections adjoining the headworks and determining the time of the reservoirs silting. Analyses of turbulent flow patterns carrying sediment are 'conducted. The River Bed Department carries out laboratory and field research work for a series of large hydraulic projects (Farhad, 8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 8. Scouring of the Amu-Darya river bank (Daigish). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 F. 9. General view of river bed models site in summer. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22: CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22: CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Kairak-Kum Dams on the Sir-Darya river, Kampir-Ravat and Gazalkent Dams). The methodical part of the main silting problems of the Work is completed and the reasons for rapid silting (twice as much thas has been expected) of Farhad and Kairak-Kum reservoirs were elucidated. It was determined that in estimating the silting process period one should take in con- sideration also the effect of wind wave action on the reser- voir banks and some other factors. The Laboratory of Intake Structures is busy with me- thods of further improvement of intake structures on the Cent- ral Asian rivers with appliances controlling the entrance of sediments into the irrigation and power station canals. The Laboratory together with the designing institutes has completed the scheme of an intake works of Fergana type which permits the draw of water for the canals with the least amount of sediments. The operation of this type of intake works based on the principle of utilization of a lateral flow circulation, possesses the following characteristics. The intake process takes place from a curved flow at a concavity of the river bank. Intake works dams consist of curvilinear approach channel gate dam, intake sill adjoining the dam at the concave bank. In most cases the river head- works in Central Asia are built according to this type. The Laboratory of Intake Structures has worked out the theory and a calculation method for silting basins, curvilinear sand traps and silt-discharge canal capacity. In the Laboratory of Structure Hydraulics questions con- nected with energy absorption in the downstreams of head- works are studied, research work is carried out on the ques- tion of disturbed and pulsating flow as well as on methods of the hydraulic modelling. The elaboration of a method for the depth calculation of local scouring beyond the headworks which is of great impor- tance for correct evaluation of possible scouring, as well as designing 'and calculation of tower and siphon spillways were accomplished by the Laboratory. The main problems with which the Experimental Wave Action Laboratory is concerned consist in active and passive control measures for protecting the slopes of earth dams and reservoir embankments from wave action. The Laboratory plans to study wind and wave regimes of reservoirs, fixing the wave load standards more accurately. The Laboratory is also bu- sy with the testing of large-scale models of various types of strengthening in order to choose the best solution and finally the Laboratory is engaged in making a detailed study of cal- 11 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22: DIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 10: The Kuiluk -headworks Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22: CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 culating methods. Visual observation is set on the experimen- tal sections of reservoirs. For example observations on con- ditions of strengthening the Katta-Kurgan Dam slopes were conducted, and the values of wave height vs. wind velocity were determined. A laboratory with two wave flumes 16 in and 8o m long, respectively, will be completed in 1961. The height of the waves in these flumes will reach 1,7 m. Problem 4. Calculating Methods and Construction of the Hydraulic Structures The Department of Hydraulic Structures and the Labo- ratory of Soil Science carry on research work on the structu- ral properties of loess soils used as building material in the majority of earth structures in Central Asia. The calcu- lating methods of designing and erection of earth hydraulic works are being studied. The Laboratory of Soil Science con- ducted research work on structural properties of loess soils: common, saline and loose settling soils. The ?results of these tests make it possible to apply soils containing 10% of salt for important earth constructions and in some cases it is even possible to apply soils containing as much: as 15% instead of the usual 3% of salt fixed by State Standards. Methods for fixing the bed settling for embankment and dam construction are also completed by the Laboratory and recommendations are given for foundation treatment in loose settling soils. This helps to determine more accurately the necessary volume of supplementary work due to foundation settlement and garantees to a greater degree the safety of the construction. The Laboratory has provided methods for design- ing, constructing and maintenance of canals in highly loose settling soils. The Department of Hydraulic Structures studies questions of deformations of earth dams (among these are the dams cbn- structed by filling the water with soil), the consolidation process and stability of canal slopes in saturated loess soil are also studied; simplified methods of percolation calculation in structures taking in account all volume seepage are worked out (among these drops-chutes, water outlets, aqueducts and cantilever spillways.), The Laboratory of Building Materials is engaged in fin- ding new as well as local materials for water works problems, choosing right concrete proportions and testing their properties for application in irrigation construction. 13 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22: CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 11. Cracks in settling loess soils as a result of wetting. 0 90 80 120 im,frimim 3 7 ,9 E 11 (1) 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 - et - I - I - I - I - ? ?3 Fig. 12. Diagram of value variations of relative depth settlment in loess soils. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 The Laboratory is also busy with studying of earth canal lining materials and coverings in order to protect concrete from abrasion. Technology of preparation and placing of cold- mixed asphalt materials was likewise completed. General cha- racteristics of plastic concrete containing furfurol acetone mo- nomer ?FA" with required abrasion resistance were obtained 177 6:06.5 es. Q826 7 . 20005 8 Fig. 13. Abrasion resistance of lining materials (kilograms per square meter per hour) determined by a special device desi- gned in the Institute. as a result of research work. Properties of reinforced gunite were studied so as to apply it as a lining material for pres- sure hydraulic structures, research work is going on making gunite more plastic and using it as an anti-seepage canal lining. Problem 5. Mechanization and Industrial Methods in Hydraulic Construction In the Mechanization Department for Water Works besi- de testing of irrigation machinery and improving their service and methods of advanced mechanized processing they design new machines for building and maintenance services in irrigation systems. Field testing of a floating mower for cleaning canals from vegetation designed by the Institute was carried out and a special machine has been designed for cleaning laterals from vegetation and silt deposits. For horizontal underground drainage 2,5-3,5 m deep the Mechanization Department -together with Glavgolodnostepstroy (Hunger-Steppe Design Institute) constructed a drainlayer. This machine prepares trenches, lays drains 500 mm long and 15 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 14. Drainlayer of D. 251 type for .the construction of underground horizontal drains. 3,5 in deep. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 covers, them with gravel. The effiency of the machine attains. 250 linear meters per shift. The Laboratory of prefabricated Reinforced Concrete' Structures is engaged in improving prefabricated concrete and reinforced concrete structures and canal linings; besides that it is busy in creating new thin-walled prefabricated structures. Fig. 15. Diagram of drainlayer operation. F,or manufacturing in situ the prefabricated parts the Labo- ratory has planned experimental stations with stand-basins adjustable for working in specific climatic conditions of Cent- ral Asia. The Laboratory discovered the possibility of reducing the thickness of reinforced concrete linings from 12 cm to 6 cm for main canals and in canals where water discharge runs from 0,2 to 20 cubic meters per second. The practice of using prefabricated concrete linings 5-8 cm thick rather than those of reinforced concrete has been proved to;_be?more econo- mical. 2-793 IT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 16. Experimental station with stand-basins for manufacturing the prefabricated parts of the structures in situ. r Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 17. Placing prefabricated concrete lining on the plain canal during operation periocl, Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 18. Reinforced cement flume 9 nz long with the capacity of 0,5 cubic meter per second. Fig. 19. Prefabricated reinforced cement gate-regulator with 3,4 in span for the capacity of 0,8 cubic meter per second. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : DIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 New reinforced cement slabs 2 cm thick were recommended for lining ditches in small farming network. The Laboratory worked out a scheme and a technology of producing the reinforced cement flumes of parabolic shape which are twice as economical as reinforced concrete. The dimensions -of a flume are: 6 to 9 m long, 60 cm high and 80 cm wide In its upper part, its capacity being 0,5 cubic meter per se- cond. For minor networks the Laboratory has worked out prefa- bricated hydraulic structures of an economical shape. They consist of ribbed slabs and panels which are prepared as flat reinforced cement details receiving prefabricated ironconcrete ribbs. Problem 6. Hydraulic Machinery and Apparatus The Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery studies serving conditions of water-hoisting machines for water economy of the Republic and questions of their rational utilization. Propeller pumps of small capacity for pumping irrigation of Horezm and Kara-Kalpakia regions, shaft pumps for vertical drainage and for utilization of ground waters for irrigation pur- poses as well as cord and band pumps for pasture watering were created by the Laboratory. This Laboratory is also busy with methods of choosing pumps for zonal pumping irrigation and for vertical drainage; estimation of hydraulic ram effect in pressure pipelines, theory of operation process in the cord and band water hoisting de- vices as well as the theory of vacuumless charging of propel- ler pumps. The problems of the Laboratory of Water Gauging Devi- ,ces consist in creating of new types of water gauge sets (tu- bular and surface gauge), automatic apparatus for recording and controlling irrigation water (hydrometers, distant trans- mitters, discharge indicators, discharge recorders, flow meters, etc.), and making use of the advantages Of automatic and tele- mechanic inventions to solve these problems. Besides that the Laboratory calibrates water gauging devi- ces for all irrigation systems of Uzbekistan. Among the recommended types are the following water gauges and automatic equipment designed by the Laboratory itself: an open gate regulator for collecting farm allocation water where the water discharge capacity reaches 2,5 cubic meters per second; tubular water gauge whose discharge water capacity reaches 1,5 cubic meters per second; surface water gauge-regulator to be applied in the farming whose water ca- 21 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 ? 0,00,04- 4,10 r idr 70.0.000e464w ? ? 0 oerrT4Fik:70; 0. * 00000 0'0?0'0% 00.?00 n?000?,0 0 o o o 0 o 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .?0 0.900 0 0 o 0 0 000 ? _0000 o 0 _0 0 TO:::70LLEKE Fig. 20. Shaft propeller pump B11-8 for verticat drainage and utilization of underground water for irrigation purposes. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 , Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 21. Diagram of a band water-hoisting device of J1-100 SANIIR1 type,. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 22. Cod !water-hoisting-device 8CD for hoisting water from drills of small diameter located on pastures. Its capacity being 1,5-2,5 litres per second; the height of hoisting-30 m. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 23. Laboratory of Water Gauge Sets. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Fig. 24. Level-discharge recorder. Fig. 25. Water gauge attached to open regulator. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/22 : CIA-RDP80T00246A025500400001-4