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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The final conference program can be downloaded below !

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SESSION OVERVIEW

Wednesday – 09/11/2016
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
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
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 […]

International Scientific and Organizing Committee