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Energies, 2022 Nowadays, pump-turbine units have to experience multiple start-stops every day to balance the power production and consumption on the grid. During the transient process of turbine start-up, the hydraulic forces applied to the head-cover would change ...
Zhengwei Wang +5 more
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Hydrodynamic and experimental characterization of pumps as turbines
Dyna, 2023 To estimate the performance, efficacy, modes of operation, hydrodynamic instabilities, and methodologies for harnessing energy from the pump as turbine (PAT), it is necessary to characterize these hydraulic turbomachines in all their modes of operation ...
Daniel Felipe Tobón-Espinosa +3 more
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Complexity, 2020 Energy contributes significantly in almost all aspects of human life as well as economic activities and plays a crucial role in the infrastructural development of a county to alleviate poverty.
Du Jianguo +4 more
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Innovation of Pump as Turbine According to Calculation Model for Francis Turbine Design
Energies, 2021 The effective utilization of micro hydropower sources is often realized through the use of pumps as turbines (PAT). The efficiency of PAT is about the same as that of the original pump. A further increase in efficiency and power output can be achieved by
Martin Polák
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Measuring the Dynamic Characteristics of a Low Specific Speed Pump—Turbine Model
Energies, 2016 This paper presents results from an experiment performed to obtain the dynamic characteristics of a reversible pump-turbine model. The characteristics were measured in an open loop system where the turbine initially was run on low rotational speed before
Eve Cathrin Walseth +2 more
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International Journal of Rotating Machinery, 2018 In this study, a counter-rotating-type pump-turbine unit was optimized to improve the pump and turbine mode efficiencies simultaneously. Numerical analysis was carried out by solving three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations using the ...
Jin-Woo Kim +5 more
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Comprehensive Review of Pump as Turbine
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2019 The turbine is a heart of power generation in a hydro-electric power system. A variety of different turbines are available for the purpose. The common types of Hydraulic turbines are; Pelton, cross flow, Francis, Kaplan, and propeller turbine.
Abdulbasit Nasir Jemal +1 more
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Atypical start-up experiments on pump as turbine
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2021 At present, research on the characteristics of pumps as turbine (PATs) during the start-up process is still insufficient. To reveal the transient characteristics of a centrifugal PAT during the atypical start-up process, a test rig for the transient ...
Yu-Liang Zhang, Yan-Juan Zhao
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Machines, 2022 In order to study the influence of tip clearance on the performance and energy dissipation of the axial-flow pump and the axial-flow pump as a turbine, and find the location of high dissipation rate, this study took an axial-flow pump model as its ...
Yanjun Li +4 more
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Transient Flow-Induced Stress Investigation on a Prototype Reversible Pump–Turbine Runner
EnergiesPump–turbine units with high heads are subjected to strong pressure pulsations from the unsteady transient flow in fluid channels, which can produce severe vibrations and high stresses on the pump–turbine structural components.
Dehao Zhang +5 more
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