Sediment erosion not only reduces efficiency and life of hydropower turbines but also causes problems in operation and maintenance. Several factors are responsible for this erosion in hydro turbine components. This paper presents the sediment erosion types in hydraulic turbines and their components based upon an extensive literature review and the field observation at Cahua hydropower plant, Pe...

The importance of renewable energy sources for the electrical power supply has grown rapidly in the past decades. Their often unpredictable nature however poses a threat to the stability of the existing electric grid. Hydroelectric powerplants play an important role in regulating the integration of renewable energy sources into the network by supplying on-demand load balancing as well as primar...

Fast response of hydraulic turbines is a key condition for the integration of renewable sources of energy. In this paper, a new start-up strategy is proposed for hydraulic turbines prone to ”S” instability. This method is based on a complete nonlinear model of the turbine together with the upstream water pipe. More precisely, the control strategy is based on a gain scheduling approach that is c...

This paper presents the study of Simulation of Electro-Hydraulic Turbine Control (EHTC) Systems in the field of Power Generation in MATLAB Simulink. It discussed the Governing system used in Thermal Power Plant with Electro-Hydraulic controller with its design, construction and advantages where it indicates that EHTC System which protects and controls Governing of Steam turbines. This paper ind...

To achieve both accumulator pressure regulation and generator power tracking for a Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) system, a nonlinear controller designed base on an energy based Lyapunov function. The control inputs for the storage system are the pump/motor displacements inside the hydraulic transformer and the liquid piston air compressor/expander. While the pump/motor inside the liquid ...

Hydraulic turbines are widely used to meet real-time electricity demands. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) techniques have played an important role in the design and development of such turbines. The simulation of a complete turbine requires substantial computational resources. A specific approach that is applied to investigate the flow field of one turbine may not work for another turbine. A ...

Modeling of regulating system of large pumped storage power station with long pipeline and parameters optimization in transient processes are studied in this paper. According to the actual parameters of a certain pumped storage power station, MATLAB/Simulink toolbox is utilized for modeling and simulation of its subsystems. Friction resistance coefficient and water elasticity are taken into con...

A new method for the simulation of gas turbine fuel systems based on an inter-component volume method has been developed in this study. It is able to simulate the performance behaviour of each of the hydraulic components including pumps, valves, metering unit, etc. of a fuel system using physics-based models, which potentially offers more accurate results compared with those using transfer func...