Algeria, December 10, 2020

Register for ADT's Exclusive Webinar on: Efficiency
Improvement and
Cavitation Control of Francis Turbine Stages by
TURBOdesign Suite. Join us on Thursday, December 10th, at 8 am and 4 pm GMT.

Description:

 

Francis turbines play a major role in both small scale  

and large scale hydraulic energy plants and are  

increasingly being used for energy storage applications  

where pump/turbine arrangement is used to store energy  

from renewable sources such as wind and solar. The 3D  

inverse design method offers one of the best means of  

meeting multi point and multi-objective requirements for  

hydraulic turbines as it can cover a large design space  

with very small number of design parameters. This enables  

efficient multi-point optimization hydraulic turbines. 

 

In this webinar we will show how the newly developed  

meanline design code for Francis turbine, which has been  

recently developed in TURBOdesign Suite, can be used to  

do the initial sizing of all components of a Francis  

turbine from volute, stay vane, guide vane and runner. We  

will demonstrate how the new meanline code coupled with  

TURBOdesign1 and TURBOdesign Volute can be used to  

quickly generate a complete 3D Francis Turbine stage that  

meet the main duty points of the stage and provide a high  

efficiency. 

 

Furthermore, we will show how TURBOdesign1 with its  

direct control of blade loading or pressure jump across  

the blade provides the best means of directly controlling the  

efficiency and cavitation performance of the runner.