The increase in contributions from non base load renewables, such as wind and solar, can have adverse effects on the stability of an electrical grid. In this study, the possibility of rapidly loading a Francis turbine from a tail water depression (TWD) mode for providing additional system frequency control is investigated. Based on the analysis of full-scale TWD test results and key findings fr...

Remote sensing technology has been widely applied in various fields, including oil, gas, and mineral exploration, spatial planning, environmental monitoring. This paper describes the application of remote for potential study a renewable micro hydropower plant (MHP) using Landsat 8 satellite data. The Sukaati Watershed, West Java, Indonesia, was selected as case area. data, acquired on August 21...

The report examined new scientific approaches to the creation of a combined cogeneration energy complex based on small or micro-hydropower. most effective micro-hydropower facilities were considered create workable structural layout. A criterion has been developed that allows evaluate efficiency hydroturbines at an early stage design using calculation method, including predictive estimate hydra...

Five locally fabricated turbines with 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 flat blades were tested in conjunction a vertical penstock of diameter 0.0762 m nozzles diameters 0.0158, 0.0212, 0.0266, 0.0343 0.042 simplified Pico hydropower system. This study is an aspect ongoing work aimed at ultimately implementing the system for small power generation. The mounted foot overhead reservoir 6.95 high. A 1.11 kW pump ...

The present paper proposes the implementation of a new algorithm for control speed regulators Pelton wheel turbines, used in many pumped hydroelectric energy storage systems that operate isolated electrical with high renewable participation. This differs substantially from standard developments which use PID or PI governors that, addition to acting on nozzle needles and deflectors, it incorpora...

This article first of all presents an innovative application of Real-Time Simulation Monitoring (RTSM), defined hereafter as “hydro-cloning”, developed by Power Vision Engineering. Second, a successful implementation of hydro-cloning is presented for the 170 MW La Bâtiaz hydroelectric power plant, HPP, owned and operated by Electricité d’Emosson SA, in the Canton of Wallis, Switzerland. The “Hy...

This work proposed a base method for automated assessment of Small Hydro-Power (SHP) potential run-of-river (RoR) scheme using geographic information systems (GIS). The hydro-power (HP) was represented through comprehensive methodology consisting structured raster database. A calibrated and validated hydrological model (Soil Water Assessment Tool—SWAT) used to estimate monthly streamflow as the...