Review on numerical techniques applied in impulse hydro turbines

S Chitrakar, BW Solemslie, HP Neopane… - Renewable energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Impulse turbines are widely used in hydropower plants around the world due to their high
efficiency in a larger operating range compared to reaction turbines. State of the art Pelton …

Sediment erosion on pelton turbines: a review

X Ge, J Sun, D Chu, J Liu, Y Zhou, H Zhang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The Pelton turbine has been widely used to develop high-head water resources with
sediments because of its advantages in life cycle costs. When a flood or monsoon season …

冲击式水轮机技术进展与发展趋势

罗兴锜, 戈振国, 朱国俊, 冯建军 - 水力发电学报, 2023 - slfdxb.cn
与反击式水轮机相比, 冲击式水轮机有着应用水头高和高效率工况范围宽的优点,
是开发高水头水电能源的核心装备. 然而, 冲击式水轮机内部为开放式, 多相非稳态流场 …

Sediment-laden flow and erosion modeling in a Pelton turbine injector

B Guo, Y Xiao, AK Rai, J Zhang, Q Liang - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A major challenge in the operation and development of the high-head water resources,
especially in the mountains with high sediment yield, is the erosion of Pelton turbine …

Experimental and numerical studies on opening and velocity influence on sediment erosion of Pelton turbine buckets

X Ge, J Sun, Y Zhou, J Cai, H Zhang, L Zhang, M Ding… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Sediment erosion of Pelton turbines seriously damage the economic benefits and safe
operation of the power station under the high head. The gas-liquid-solid three-phase …

Multiscale simulation of erosive wear in a prototype-scale Pelton runner

S Leguizamón, S Alimirzazadeh, E Jahanbakhsh… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The technical capacity to predict the erosion process is instrumental for the optimization of
the runner designs and operation strategies of hydroelectric plants. A multiscale model of …

FVPM numerical simulation of the effect of particle shape and elasticity on impact erosion

S Leguizamón, E Jahanbakhsh, S Alimirzazadeh… - Wear, 2019 - Elsevier
The erosion of hydraulic machines by solid particle impacts is a widespread problem that
leads to outage for expensive repairs, efficiency reduction, and cavitation enhancement …

Computational parametric analysis of the design of cross-flow turbines under constraints

S Leguizamón, F Avellan - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The cross-flow turbine is an attractive technology for small-scale hydropower generation
thanks to its low capital cost and relatively high efficiency even under partial discharge …

Analysis of hydro-abrasive erosion in a high-head Pelton turbine injector using a Eulerian-Lagrangian approach

N Shrivastava, AK Rai, A Abbas… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
High-head hydropower plants deploy Pelton turbines to harness energy; however, turbine
components face severe abrasive erosion due to suspended sediments. The erosion of the …

Review on erosion phenomenon, maintenance, and financial calculation of lifetime as an asset for Pelton turbines

J Abregu, N Acharya… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Prevention of greenhouse emissions is the top priority for all countries, which urges them to
switch to renewable energy as much as possible. Hydropower is one of the renewables that …