Abstract Pumps as Turbines (PATs) are known for their ability to replace conventional
turbines in Pico/micro-hydropower plants. However, selecting a suitable pump and …

Pump as turbines (PATs) are widely applied for recovering the dissipated energy of high-
pressure fluids in several hydraulic energy resources. When a centrifugal pump operates as …

The present research depicts an analysis of the implementation of computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) in the study of pumps such as turbines and PATs. To highlight the benefits …

Over the past few years, there has been significant interest in the importance of reversible
hydro-pumping systems due to their favorable flexibility and economic and environmental …

Micro-hydro systems can be used as a promising new source of renewable energy
generation, requiring a low investment cost of hydraulic, mechanical, and electrical …

The extensive use of the pump as a turbine (PAT) for micro‐hydropower applications has a
significant value from economic and technical viewpoints. However, the unavailability of the …

Rotating stall is an unsteady flow phenomenon, which always leads to instability and
efficiency degradation. In order to reveal pressure fluctuations in the impeller of centrifugal …

The use of pump working as turbine (PAT) was identified by many researchers as a way to
improve the energy efficiency in the water systems. However, the majority of the researches …

As an economical energy recovery device, a pump as turbine (PAT) is widely used in micro
hydropower and energy recovery fields. Compared with an original impeller, a special …

[EN] Pumps as turbines (PATs) are the typical solution for electrification using micro
hydropower plants (MHP) in the rural sector. Other engineering applications where lately the …