Emborcação Dam

Emborcação Dam
Location of Emborcação Dam
Official name Usina de Emborcação
Location Araguari, MG, Brazil
Coordinates 18°26′49″S 47°59′11″W / 18.44694°S 47.98639°WCoordinates: 18°26′49″S 47°59′11″W / 18.44694°S 47.98639°W
Construction began 1977
Opening date 1983
Construction cost $380 million USD
Owner(s) CEMIG
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Embankment
Impounds Paranaíba River
Height 158 m (518 ft)
Length 1,507 m (4,944 ft)
Spillway type Service, gate-controlled
Reservoir
Creates Emborcação Reservoir
Total capacity 17.6 km3 (14,300,000 acre·ft)
Surface area 703 km2 (271 sq mi)
Power station
Commission date 1982-1983
Type Conventional
Turbines 4 x Francis turbines
Installed capacity 1,192 MW (1,598,000 hp)

The Emborcação Dam, also known as Theodomiro Sampaio, is an embankment dam on the Paranaíba River near Araguari in Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was constructed for hydroelectric power production and flood control.

Background

Feasibility studies for the dam occurred in 1971 and in June 1977, construction on the dam began. In August 1981, the dam began to impound the reservoir and the first generator became operation in 1982, the last in 1983. The dam was inaugurated in 1983 by Brazilian president Joao Batista Figueiredo.[1]

Dam

The dam is 1,507 metres (4,944 ft) long and 158 metres (518 ft) tall and withholds a reservoir with a capacity of 17.6 cubic kilometres (14,300,000 acre·ft) and surface area of 703 square kilometres (271 sq mi).

Emborcação Hydroelectric Power Plant

The dam's power plant contains four 298 megawatts (400,000 hp) generators powered by Francis turbines for a total installed capacity of 1,192 megawatts (1,598,000 hp).[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Plant Emborcação celebrates 25 years". CEMIG. 2008-03-06. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  2. ↑ "Cemig's Power Plants". CEMIG. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "Hydroelectric Plants in Brazil - Minas Gerais". industCards. Retrieved 19 September 2010.