Water turbine PDF

Current hydropower technology, while really emission-free, have undesirable ecological impacts, such as for instance seafood damage and mortality from passageway through turbines, plus harmful changes in the product quality (dissolved gases) of downstream water. Advanced hydropower turbine technology could minimize the undesireable effects yet preserve the capability to generate electrical energy from an essential renewable resource.

The purpose of DOE's Advanced Hydropower Turbine program (AHTS) Program will be develop technology that will allow the country to maximise the usage of its hydropower resources while minimizing bad environmental results. Conceptual designs of environmentally friendly hydropower turbines were completed beneath the DOE-industry system. Prospective injury mechanisms due to turbine passageway have now been identified. Scientific studies are becoming carried out to comprehend the consequences among these injury systems on seafood and to develop methods for decreasing their extent.

• Decreased fish death: Advanced turbine technology could lower fish mortality resulting from turbine passageway to significantly less than 2per cent, when compared to turbine-passage mortalities of 5 to 10% for top level current turbines and 30per cent or better off their turbines.
• Improved compliance with liquid quality criteria: Advanced turbine technology would keep a downstream mixed oxygen amount of at the very least 6 mg/L, making sure conformity with liquid quality criteria.
• Reductions in CO2 emissions: The use of green turbine technology would assist reverse the drop in hydroelectric generation and minimize the amounts of CO2 along with other greenhouse gases emitted by use of fossil fuels.

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• Biological Assessment regarding the Advanced Turbine Design at Wanapum Dam 2005 (1.9MB PDF) August 2007
• The consequences of Turbine passageway on C-Start Behavior of Salmon during the Wanapum Dam, Washington (561KB PDF) June 2006
• Assessment of Blade-Strike versions for calculating the Biological Performance of huge Kaplan Hydro Turbines (1.5MB PDF) November 2005
• Aftereffect of several Turbine passageway on Juvenile Snake River Salmonid Survival (1.1MB PDF) Septmeber 2005
• Characterization of Bead Trajectories through Draft Tube of a Turbine bodily Model (3.4 MB PDF) February 2005
• Remain Vane and Wicket Gate partnership research (3.6 MB (795 KB PDF) December 2004
• Learn of Fish Response utilizing Particle Image Velocimetry and High-Speed, Higo-Resolution Imaging (5.6 MB PDF) October 2004
• Effects of Hyporheic Exchange Flows on Egg pouch liquid Temperature in Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning Areas (8.2 MB PDF) September 2004
• Six-Degree-of-Freedom Sensor Fish Design: Governing Equations and Motion Modeling (2.9 MB PDF) July 2004
• Additional Tests of Changes in Fish Escape Behavior Resulting from Sublethal Stresses connected with Hydroelectric Turbine passageway (487 KB (2.8 MB (3.3 MB PDF) October 2003
• Pinpointing the Effects on Fish of Changes In liquid stress during Turbine Passage (93 KB PDF)
• Improvement a New process to Assess Susceptibility to Predation caused by Sublethal Stresses (Indirect death) (4.4 MB PDF)
• Fish passageway Through a Simulated Horizontal Bulb Turbine Pressure Regime: a Supplement to “Laboratory scientific studies for the ramifications of stress and Dissolved gasoline Supersaturation on Turbine-Passed Fish” (972 KB PDF)
• Regulatory Approaches for dealing with Dissolved Oxygen Concerns at Hydropower Facilities (507 KB PDF)
• Advancement regarding the Sensor Fish Device for gauging bodily Conditions in serious Hydraulic conditions (1.9 MB PDF)
• Assessment of Fish-Injury systems During Exposure to a High-Velocity Jet (1.7 MB PDF)
• HydroVision paper: Application of CFD to analyze Fish Survival in Kaplan Turbines (573 KB PDF)
• Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Circular Jet Flows (12.1 MB PDF)
• The introduction of Advanced Hydroelectric Turbines to Improve Fish Passage Survival (copyright, American Fisheries community, combined with authorization) (455 KB PDF)
• Laboratory Studies regarding the ramifications of Pressure and Dissolved Gas Supersaturation on Turbine-passed Fish (4.2 MB PDF)
• Supplement to Laboratory Studies report (above): Simulated passageway Through a changed Kaplan Turbine stress Regime, PNNL Report. (1.8 MB PDF)
• Laboratory Studies of results of stress and Dissolved petrol Supersaturation on Turbine-Passed Fish: test outcomes (85 KB PDF)
• Laboratory Studies from the aftereffects of Shear on Fish: Final Report (2.1 MB PDF)
• Final Turbine/Test center Design Report, Alden/NREC Fish Friendly Turbine, pt 1 (3.1 MB PDF)
• Hydropower R&D : current Advances in Turbine passageway Technology (1.6 MB PDF)
• AHTS Overview Report associated with the design energy, published Summer 1999. (487 KB PDF)
• Biological Criteria for AHTS design, published 1997.(11.0 MB PDF)
• Establishing Biological Specifications for Fish Friendly Turbines (55 KB PDF)
• Advanced Sensor Fish Device for Improved Turbine Design (49 KB PDF)
• Response of Juvenile Pacific Lamprey to Turbine passageway (375 KB PDF)