Cross-Flow Turbine Design for Energy Production and Discharge Regulation
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 141, Issue 3
Abstract
Cross-flow turbines are very efficient and cheap turbines that allow a very good cost/benefit ratio for energy production located at the end of conduits carrying water from a water source to a tank. In this paper, a new design procedure for a cross-flow turbine working with a variable flow rate is proposed. The regulation of the head immediately upstream the turbine is faced by adopting a shaped semicircular segment moving around the impeller. The maximum efficiency of the turbine is attained by setting the velocity of the particles entering the impeller at about the velocity of the rotating system at the impeller inlet. If energy losses along the pipe are negligible, the semicircular segment allows always a constant hydraulic head and a constant velocity at the impeller inlet, even with variable flow rate. The decrease of the turbine efficiency along with the inlet surface reduction is first investigated; a design methodology, using also computational fluid dynamics simulations, is then proposed for both the cases of negligible and not negligible energy losses along the pipe.
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Acknowledgments
The research reported in this paper has been supported by the Hydroenergy project, Programma Operativo del Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale (P.O. F.E.S.R.) 2007–2013, Sicily.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 141 • Issue 3 • March 2015
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Received: Nov 11, 2013
Accepted: Oct 22, 2014
Published online: Nov 21, 2014
Published in print: Mar 1, 2015
Discussion open until: Apr 21, 2015
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