The aim of the research is to increase the efficiency of pumping stations operation by improving the methods of uniform spreading of the flow from the front chamber and the water intake of the pumping station and the development of constructive measures to improve the hydraulic conditions of the flow supply to the pumps. This goal is achieved by the fact that the device for supplying water to the water intake contains guiding elements. The improvement of the method of hydraulic calculation of the flow in the front chamber and the water intake chamber is carried out on the example of the head pumping station of the Jizzakh cascade. In the process of research, standard methods of full-scale and bench tests of pumps, methods of mathematical and hydraulic modeling, statistical processing of results and the creation of mathematical models based on the laws of hydromechanics were used. The project substantiates the choice of a technical solution to improve the hydraulic structure of the flow in front of the impeller of the pumps of the Jizzakh head pumping station. The authors have developed new technical solutions, including an element for influencing the flow, installed in the water intake chamber of the pumps. This makes it possible to expand the ranges of stable, cavitation-free operation of the pump, to ensure an increase in the reliability of water supply to the pumping station, without resorting to complex and expensive reconstruction measures.

The article discusses the methods of maintenance and technical diagnostics of large vertical pumping units of modernized pumping stations of the largest cascades of the Amu-Bukhara and Karshi channels to ensure reliability during their operation, assesses the qualitative and quantitative changes in their modes. The operation of large pumping stations poses a number of problems that cannot be solved without experimental studies. The aim of the research is the problem of comprehensive diagnostics of pumping units and the development of new export-oriented diagnostic devices. The use of new designs of pumping power and diagnostic equipment involves the use of mathematical modeling of control of the operating modes of machine channels, which gives significant savings. Methods of accounting for cavitation – hydroabrasive wear of the blades are based on the study of the movement of the hydroabrasive flow along the radius of the impeller. Recommended elimination of pump operating modes with a maximum wear rate of their parts.

The purpose of the research is to substantiate an effective technology for the use of reinforced soil in hydraulic engineering facilities. The main task is to develop calculation methods and compare them with the results of model studies. The article uses methods of physical modeling of structures made of reinforced soil. It develops the theoretical foundations of modeling by introducing the obtained data on full-scale structures. The values of the dimensionless coefficients and the corresponding hydraulic gradients for various times are given in the tabular form, which is convenient for calculating operational parameters. To clarify the change in the boundary of the filtration flow over time, experiments were carried out in a slotted tray. The article graphically depicts the results of theoretical studies and experiments; the discrepancy between the theoretical and experimental curves for changing the boundary of the filtration flow over time is no more than 4%.