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Nejc Co?, Reza Ahmadian and Roger A. Falconer
Understanding the impact of various hydraulic structures, such as coastal reservoirs and tidal range impoundments, has been one of the key challenges of hydro?environmental engineering in recent years. Over the last half-century, several proposals for ti...
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Helena M. Ramos, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez, Prajwal S. M. Guruprasad, Armando Carravetta, Alban Kuriqi, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, João F. P. Fernandes, Paulo J. Costa Branco and Petra Amparo López-Jiménez
The world?s water infrastructures suffer from inefficiencies, such as high energy consumption and water losses due to inadequate management practices and feeble pressure regulation, leading to frequent water and energy losses. This strains vital water an...
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Sen Deng, Weiqiang Zhao, Tianbao Huang, Ming Xia and Zhengwei Wang
Kaplan turbines are generally used in working conditions with a high flow and low head. These are a type of axial-flow hydro turbine that can adjust the opening of the guide vanes and blades simultaneously in order to achieve higher efficiency under a wi...
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Jiahao Lu, Wei Yan, Ran Tao, Zhengwei Wang and Di Zhu
As a core component of pumped storage power plants for hydro and marine power storage, this paper investigates the mechanism of pressure pulsation fluctuations under different load conditions to improve the efficiency and operational stability of the sto...
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Calogero Picone, Marco Sinagra, Luana Gurnari, Tullio Tucciarelli and Pasquale G. F. Filianoti
In the last few decades, hydropower production has been moving toward a new paradigm of low and diffused power density production of energy with small and mini-hydro plants, which usually do not require significant water storage. In the case of nominal p...
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Admitos A. Bideris-Davos and Panagis N. Vovos
Gravity flow water distribution systems (WDSs) are used to permit water flow from an input point of highest elevation (source) to the terminal points of a system (consumers). In such WDSs, typically, there is no need for external power to maintain the fl...
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Tao Zhang, Zilong Hu, Xinjun Liu, Jiahao Lu, Xijie Song, Di Zhu and Zhengwei Wang
Hydroelectric power generation is an important clean energy source, and the stability of water turbine operation determines the quality of hydro energy utilization. For hydro turbines, the layout direction of the draft tube is often only considered from ...
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Shiqi Liu, Zhenju Chuang, Kai Wang, Xin Li, Xin Chang and Lixun Hou
The full exploitation of offshore wind resources can essentially satisfy the massive energy demand. The realization and application of ultra-high-power offshore wind turbines are crucial to achieving full use of deep-sea wind energy and reducing the cost...
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Xiaojiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Jiatao Yan, Yiming Zhou, Shu Yan, Wei Shi and Xin Li
Wind energy in the deep-sea area is more abundant and the capacity of wind turbines can be made larger. Therefore, the research on deep-sea floating offshore wind turbines will be the primary strategy for wind energy exploitation in the future. The spar-...
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Yiming Zhou, Yajun Ren, Wei Shi and Xin Li
Tension leg platform (TLP) is a cost-effective and high-performance support structure for floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) because of its small responses in heave, pitch, and roll with the constraint of the tendons. China, as the largest market of o...
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