Renewable Energies II: Hydropower

Course contents

Basics of hydropower:
- Hydraulic machines
- Energy conversion

Turbines:
- Turbine types
- Efficiency, output
- Operating speed, specific speed, throughput speed
- Cavitation, cavitation coefficient
- Turbine designs (Pelton, Kaplan, Francis)
- Turbine design
- Input variables
- Rotational speed
- Selection of a turbine/comparison between turbines
- Wear
- Executed turbines
- Designs

Storage pump and generators:
- Storage pump and pump turbine
- Generators for hydropower

Sustainability of hydropower

Department

Bachelor's program Environmental, Process & Energy Engineering