Summary
Master Lecture on the different layouts of hydropower plants. Detailing the specification of generating units (with Pelton, Francis, Kaplan and Bulb turbines), and pumped-storage hydropower plants (reversible and ternary units).
Content
- Introduction to hydropower and statistics
- layout of hydropower plants. storage and run-of-the river power plant
- Integrating new renewable energy with pumped storage power plants
- Type of Machines
- Global quantities and Energy losses
- Power balance
- Velocity triangles and Euler equation
- Turbine and Pump hydraulic Characteristics
- Sustainability of hydropower technology
- Professor: Elena Vagnoni
- Teacher: Aldo Leonardo Alerci
- Teacher: Nathan Justin Veuthey
