ABSTRACT Pelton turbines are hydraulic turbines which are widely used for large scale power generation. A micro hydelpelton turbine is miniature model of actual pelton turbine which can be used for small scale power generation. This type of turbines converts potential energy of water at height into kinetic energy by allowing the water to fall freely on the pelton runner. This water impact provi...

The Francis hydro-turbine is a typical nonlinear system with coupled hydraulic, mechanical, and electrical subsystems. It difficult to understand the reasons for its operational failures, since main cause of failures due complex interaction three This paper presents an improved dynamic model hydro-turbine. study involves development hydraulic unit, given start-up emergency processes, considerat...

Due to the increasing share of new renewable energies like wind and solar in the generation of electricity the need for power regulation and energy storage is becoming of paramount importance. One of the systems to store huge amounts of energy is pumped storage using reversible hydropower units. The machines used in these power plants are pump-turbines, which can operate as a pump and as a turb...

This paper is concerned with optimization methods which, in combination with CFD-based analysis tools, can efficiently be used for the design-optimization of hydraulic turbine blades. It particularly focuses on metamodel-assisted evolutionary algorithms (MAEAs) used as either stand-alone tools or the main components of a hierarchical optimization algorithm (hierarchical MAEAs or HMAEAs). In a H...