Lijiaxia Dam
Lijiaxia Dam | |||||||
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View from Kanbula National Park to the Lijiaxia Dam | |||||||
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Coordinates | 36 ° 7 '7 " N , 101 ° 48' 28" E | ||||||
Data on the structure | |||||||
Construction time: | 1991-2000 | ||||||
Height of the barrier structure : | 155 m | ||||||
Height above foundation level : | 165 m (?) | ||||||
Building volume: | 1.26 million m³ | ||||||
Crown length: | 414 m | ||||||
Crown width: | 8 m | ||||||
Base width: | 45 m | ||||||
Power plant output: | 2000 MW | ||||||
Data on the reservoir | |||||||
Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 2180 m | ||||||
Water surface | 136.747 km² | ||||||
Storage space | 1648 million m³ | ||||||
Catchment area | 136 747 km² | ||||||
Design flood : | 7th 220 m³ / s |
The Lijiaxia Dam is a dam with a hydropower plant on the Yellow River (Huang He) in the Chinese province of Qinghai , 73 km downstream from the Laxiwa Dam .
The barrier structure is a double-curved arch dam . For their height one finds the information 155 and 165 m in various sources, for the length in addition to the 414 m given in the table, also 382 or 489 m. Alternatively, the building volume is also given as 2.34 or 3.03 million m³.
The hydropower plant has four turbines with 400 MW each, a fifth was installed later, so that the total nominal output is 2000 MW.
See also
- List of hydropower plants in China
- List of dams in China
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
Web links
- Chinese National Committee on Large Dams
- Lijiaxia Hydropower Station
- Large Dams in China ("large dams in China")