State Hydrological
Institute (SHI)
Department of Channel
Processes Department of Channel Processes
of the State Hydrological Institute is a leading organization in
Russia in the field of the study of river channels and
floodplains evolution caused by flowing water and scientific
substantiation for varies projects in river engineering: hydro-,
thermal- and nuclear-power engineering, navigation, irrigation,
bridge-building, pipe-line transport, municipal economy,
water-supply, alluvium dredging, urbanization and recreation.
Territory of investigations comprises all the geographical and
economical zones of the former USSR. Research methods used -
field, airborne, theoretical; hydrological, geomorphological,
hydraulic; physical (hydraulic and airdynamic) and mathematical
modeling. Measuring means - standard instruments and modern
equipment - satellite global positioning system (GPS) combined
with new echo depth-sounders, wide-band current acoustic Doppler
profiler, Klein side scan sonar system, original devices and
facilities for hydraulic laboratories. Data processing and
presentation - on the geo-information base (GIS) with the use of
modern computer software and hardware.
Introduction of research results - monographs, papers,
reports, manuals, reference systems, recommendations for
particular projects, monitoring methodology, assessment of a
project impact on environment.
Fields of
activities cover both calculation and prediction of
natural processes, and solution of problems of the safety and
protection of engineering structures.
| Hydro-electric
stations·
Hydrological regime and engineering activity
upstream and downstream.·
Channel processes, banks deformations, flow
current dynamics, waves, reservoir silting.
Bridge crossings·
Bridge hydraulics.· Channel and floodplain
processes upstream and downstream a bridge.
Local score at piers
Flow transfrer·
Channel effects due to river run-off changes.
Canal regime.
Large alluvium excavations·
Hydrological and channel regimes and engineering
activity upstream and downstream an excavation.
Flood protection·
Hydrological, channel, monitoring and
river-engineering problems.
River systems·
Degradation of rivers under impact of mans
activity and climate changes.
Coastal processes and dynamics of river
mouths·
Coastal currents and sediment transport.
Morphology and hydraulic of river mouths.·
Coastal engineering.
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Dam water intakes·
- Hydraulic and channel problems upstream and
downstream. Protection against sedimentation.
Engineering structures regulating channel and
floodplain processes (navigating cannels and cuttings,
bank revetment, dams, dikes, levees)
- Hydraulic and channel effect. Constructive types.
Building technology.
Urbanized reaches of rivers·
- Floodplain urbanization. Combined impact of river
engineering structures.
- Hydrology, hydraulics, channel evolution,
protection.
Timber-rafting·
- Hydraulics of timber-rafting, booms and
roadsteads. Cleaning of river channels from
woods.
Navigation
- Regime of currents, channel and navigation canal
deformations, waves in navigable river reaches,
lakes and water reservoirs.
Single excavation pits·
- Size and location.·
- Hydraulics and sediment transport.
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Damless water intakes
- Location, type, protection, fish preservation on
the basis of hydrological and channel regimes.
Waste outlets, wasteways
- Location, construction type according to
hydrological and channel regime. Sewage dilution.
Oil and gas pipe line crossings
- Hydrological regime, location, profile of the
maximum possible erosion.
- Diffusion and methods of localization of the oil
spills.
- Substantiation of horizontal drilling.
- Maintenance and protection measures.
Crossings of electrotransfere and communication
lines
- Hydrological regime at crossing site.
- Prediction of river channel and banks evolution.
- Protection.
Navigation structures, cuttings, water areas and
moorages·
- Hydrological regime.
- Hydraulics.·
- Waves.·
- Sediment transport.
- Protection systems.
- Recreation·
- Location.
- Hydroecological regime.
- Protection systems.
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Objects:
During 1963-1997 research and development studies were made
and recommendations were provided for 250 large industrial
objects: ·
- timber industry companies - Bratsk, Siktivkar, Kotlass,
Enisei, Amur; ·
- hydro electric power stations - Viluisk, Krasnoyarsk,
Urgal, Katun, Maina, Sayano-Shushensk, Dalnerechensk; ·
- nuclear electric power stations - Novovoronezh, Aktashsk,
Tatarsk, Bashkartostan, Ylianovsk, Far-East of Russia,
North-West of Russia;
- thermal electric power stations - Pechorsk, Chigirinsk,
Barnayl, Tomsk, Lukomolsk, Bolshoe Yarovoe Lake;
- urban territories along rivers at Krasnodar, Omsk, Tomsk,
Barnaul, Kirov, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-na-Amure,
Toliatti; ·
- bridge crossings - Ob River at Barnaul, Kama River at
Sorochji Gori, Msta River at Belaya Gora, rivers of Yamal
peninsula, Baikal-Amur Railway (BAR) zone, Khara-Murin
River, Utulik River, Anosovka River;
- Gorevskoe polymetal ore deposit;
- oil and gas fields in Western Syberia;
- about 100 oil and gas pipe line crossings in Russia;
- complex of flood protection structures in St. Petersburg;
- flood protection schemes in Primorje, on the Kuban, Black
Sea coast, rivers Bashkortostan;
- river systems of Altay, BAR zone, Yamal peninsula;
- navigation canals and ports on the Danube River at
Novodunaisk and Izmail;
- Volga Automobile Plant;
- petrochemical enterprises in Tobolsk, Volgograd;
- Baikal Lake, Balkhash Sea, Azov Sea, Black Sea;
- floodplain urbanization in Yalutorovsk, Surgut, Barnaul,
Ufa, Kirov, Khabarovsk, Amursk;
- Karakum Canal, flow transfer main canal Irtish-Karaganda.
Objects:
Design institutions, regional firms and companies of fuel and
energy industry, oil and gas industry, timber industry,
transport, water economy, municipal services, the agro-industrial
complexes, federal bodies, city and state, regional and local
administrations.
Economic
effect:
Average economic effect is $5-30 per $1 spent on
investigation. Cost of research works of SHI at an average is
10-15 times less than that of foreign research companies.
Address for
communications:
Department of Channel Processes,
State Hydrological Institute 23, 2nd Line,
St. Petersburg, 199053, Russia
tel. 7-812-2319344, 7-812-2138973
fax 7-812-2319354
e-mail: ishiklom@sovam.com