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 …

Development of hydro impulse turbines and new opportunities

A Židonis, DS Benzon, GA Aggidis - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hydro impulse turbines are often referred to as a mature technology having been invented
around 100 years ago with many of the old design guidelines producing machines of a high …

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 …

Assessment of erosive wear of Pelton turbine injector: Nozzle and spear combination–A study of Chenani hydro-power plant

MZU Din, GA Harmain - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
This study concerns with erosion of Pelton turbine injector ie (nozzle spear tribo pair) by
sediment particles for a typical power plant located in Himalayan belt of Jammu and Kashmir …

Hydro-abrasive erosion in Pelton turbine injectors: A numerical study

GV Messa, S Mandelli, S Malavasi - Renewable energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations were performed to investigate how the design and the operation
conditions of a Pelton turbine injector affect its vulnerability to hydro-abrasive erosion …

Novel trends in modelling techniques of Pelton Turbine bucket for increased renewable energy production

S Bhattarai, P Vichare, K Dahal, A Al Makky… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pelton turbines have been used for harvesting clean energy from water jet for over 100
years. The wide range of their applicability and the robustness with minimal onsite …

Parametric optimisation of two Pelton turbine runner designs using CFD

A Židonis, A Panagiotopoulos, GA Aggidis… - … of Hydrodynamics, Ser …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper aims to develop a generic optimisation method for Pelton turbine runners using
computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Two different initial runners are optimised to achieve …

Pelton turbine: Identifying the optimum number of buckets using CFD

A Židonis, GA Aggidis - Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, 2016 - Elsevier
A numerical case study on identifying the optimum number of buckets for a Pelton turbine is
presented. Three parameters: number of buckets, bucket radial position and bucket angular …

Influence of spear needle eccentricity on jet quality in micro Pelton turbine for power generation

IH Jung, YS Kim, DH Shin, JT Chung, Y Shin - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The quality of the jet injected from a nozzle is one of the key factors that affects the
performance of Pelton turbines. In this study, for the first time, experiments and numerical …