SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The final conference program can be downloaded below !
SESSION OVERVIEW
Wednesday – 09/11/2016 | |||
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Theatre | Marshall room | Kronprinz Rudolf room | |
08:00am – 09:30am | Registration at the conference-office desk | ||
09:30am – 12:00am | Opening session | ||
12:00am – 01:30pm | Lunch Break | ||
01:30pm – 03:00pm | Flexibility and Secenarios for Future grids | Mechanical and Constructional Aspects of Hydropower Plant Components | |
03:00pm – 03:30pm | Coffee Break | ||
03:30pm – 05:00pm | Equipment Demands due to Power Control Requirements | Maintenance, Repair and Modernization of Machine Units | |
06:30pm – 12:00pm | Evening program of the 1stDay |
Thursday – 10/11/2016 | |||
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Theatre | Marshall room | Kronprinz Rudolf room | |
09:30am – 10:30am | Design Requirements and Optimization | International Projects | PhD Presentations 1 |
10:30am – 11:00am | Coffee Break | ||
11:00am – 12:30pm | Draft Tube Investigations | Capability, Safety and Risk Assessment | PhD Presentations 2 |
12:30pm – 01:30pm | Lunch Break | ||
01:30pm – 03:00pm | Cavitation and Flow Effects | Operation, Monitoring and Maintenance | PhD Presentations 3 |
03:00pm – 03:30pm | Coffee Break | ||
03:30pm – 05:00pm | Numerical Assessment | Power Control | |
07:00pm – 12:00pm | Evening program of the 2ndDay |
Friday – 11/11/2016 | |||
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Theatre | Marshall room | Kronprinz Rudolf room | |
09:00pm – 10:30am | Dynamics and Transients | Small Hydro | |
10:30am – 11:00am | Coffee Break | ||
11:00am – 12:30pm | Machinery Developments and Testing Facilities | ||
12:30pm – 01:30pm | Closing Session |
TOPICS
The background of the seminar was the flexible operation of modern hydropower plants and its interaction with the electrical grid. Ancillary services, fast and secure electricity supply as well as long lifetimes of the components were the major tasks. Therefore, the main topics covered by the seminar include R&D, Transient behviour, Flexible operation etc. as set out below:
- Ancillary services
- Hydropower and the electrical grid
- Grid stabilizing opportunities of Hydropower
- Energy mix in the future
- Flexibilization options of Hydropower Plants
- Future trends of Hydropower Development
- Machine and Plant behaviour
- Change of operational point
- Impact of primary regulation on the grid stability
- Flow Measurements
- Numerical calculations of infrastructure behaviour
- Start/Stop behaviour and blow out effects
- Low Load and Speed No Load Operational Points
- Self learning systems
- Advanced instrumentation
- Cyber Security aspects
- Interacting control systems with other RES
- Technical innovations
- Projects
- Operation
- Hydro in Synergy with Other Renewables
- Smart storage
- Economic situation
- Maintenance strategies and cost reduction
- Monitoring, diagnosis, optimization and predictive maintenance systems
- Efficiency and vibration measurement and analysis
- Dysfunctions, failure analysis, accidents
- Rehabilitation techniques
- Rehabilitation projects
- Best practice
- Coating of hydraulic components
- Experience of coated components
- New materials and manufacturing processes
- New equipment and infrastructure design
- Numerical investigations of hydraulic and electrical components
- Efficiency increase
- Cavitating flows and erosion
- Unsteady flow phenomena in hydraulic machines
- Environmental issues in turbine design
- Models, algorithms and code development in hydrodynamics
- Simulation and analysis of cavitating and multi-phase flows
- Flow stability and control
- Vibrations and fluid structure interactions
- Experimental measurement and analysis
- Multidisciplinary design optimization
- Physical modeling of turbine inlets and steel water construction
- Technical innovations and engineering solutions
- Drinking water turbining
- Irrigation turbining
- Reserved flow of large Hydropower plants turbining
- Small hydro in protected areas
- Smart grid machines and developments
- Research, Development & Innovations for Hydrokinetic machines
- In-stream / Ultra Low Head Systems
- Deployed Projects: Experiences from Across the Globe
- Administrative and licensing procedures
- Regranting of water rights
- Impact of the European Water Framework Directive
- Relicensing of Historical Power Plants
- Framework
- Guidelines
- Best practice in projects Environmental issues: greehouse gases from reservoirs, river basin considerations
- Social and stakeholder management
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Conference and Program Chair
Dr. Stefan BURTSCHER
Institute for Testing and Research Ltd (TVFA – TU WIEN), AUSTRIA […]
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian BAUER
TU Wien, Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, RU Fluid-Flow Machinery, AUSTRIA […]
International Scientific and Organizing Committee
Peter AMLER
Andritz Hydro GmbH, AUSTRIA [...]
Prof. Dr. Tri Ratna BAJRACHARYA
Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Centre for [...]
Marla BARNES
Publisher, Hydro Group [...]
Prof. Claire DESCHÊNES
Université Laval, LAMH – Laboratoire [...]
Prof. Marco Aurelio DOS SANTOS
Federal University of Rio de [...]
Prof. Wolfgang GAWLIK
TU Wien, Institute of Energy [...]
Dr.-Ing. Christof GENTNER
GE Renewable Energy, SWITZERLAND [...]
Marko GOSPODJINAČKI
ESHA President, BELGIUM […]
Dipl.-Ing. Oliver HAUPT
KfW-Development Bank, Senior Expert Hydro [...]
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan HEIMERL
FICHTNER Water & Transportation [...]
Dr. Richard HUBER
Institute for Testing and Research [...]
Dr. Klaus KÄFER
TU Wien, Institute for Energy [...]
Dipl.-Ing. Stephan KOLB
Alpiq AG, SWITZERLAND [...]
Prof. Dr. Eng. Shuhong LIU
Tsinghua University, Department of Thermal [...]
Prof. Dr. Eng. Kazuyoshi MIYAGAWA
Waseda University, Department of Applied [...]
PEng. Ian MUNRO
Manager – Hydro Mechanical Engineering, [...]
Dr. Sebastian MUNTEAN
Romanian Academy – Timisoara Branch, [...]
Prof. Håkan NILSSON
Chalmers University of Technology, [...]
Prof. Giorgio PAVESI
Università degli studi di Padova, [...]
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter PELZ
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institute [...]
Dr. Josef PROST
HTBLA Eisenstadt, AUSTRIA […]
Prof. Dr. Pavel RUDOLF
Brno University of Technology, Energy [...]
Dr. Albert RUPRECHT
University of Stuttgart, Institute of [...]
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rudolf SCHILLING
Technische Universität München, Institute of [...]
Dr.-Ing. Klaus SCHNEIDER
Hydropower Consultant, GERMANY […]
Prof. Dr. Thomas STAUBLI
Lucerne School of Engineering and [...]
Prof. Dr. Peter TSCHERNUTTER
TU Wien, Institute of Hydraulic [...]
Prof. Dr. Reinhard WILLINGER
TU Wien, Institute for Energy [...]
Prof. Dr. Gerald ZENZ
University of Technology Graz, Institute [...]