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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The final conference program can be downloaded below !

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SESSION OVERVIEW

Wednesday – 14/11/2018
Theatre Marshall room Franz Josef room Maria Theresia 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 – 03:30pm Panel discussion on Digitalization and Big Data in Hydropower Material, Manufacturing and Design guidelines
03:30pm – 04:00pm Coffee Break
04:00pm – 04:30pm Bus Transfer from Conference Center to the Hydraulic Laboratory, TU Wien
04:30pm – 06:15pm Visit of the Hydraulic Laboratory at TU Wien
06:15pm – 06:30pm Bus Transfer from the Hydraulic Laboratory to the Evening Reception
06:30pm – 12:00pm Evening program of the 1stDay
Thursday – 15/11/2018
Theatre Marshall room Franz Josef room Maria Theresia room
09:00am – 10:30am Commissioning and Operation Hydraulic component Investigations Future technologies PhD Presentations 1
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm Flexible Hydropower Plants Sound and Vibration Sustainability aspects PhD Presentations 2
12:30pm – 01:30pm Lunch Break
01:30pm – 03:00pm Pumped storage and variable speed units Operation, Monitoring and Risk Assessment Standardization and Legal aspects PhD Presentations 3
03:00pm – 03:30pm Coffee Break
03:30pm – 05:00pm Project Development and Optimization Numerical Simulation and Optimization Small Hydro PhD Presentations 4
07:00pm – 12:00pm Evening program of the 2ndDay
Friday – 16/11/2018
Theatre Marshall room Franz Josef room Maria Theresia room
09:00pm – 10:30am Dynamics and Transients Intelligent Control and Monitoring Systems
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm Big Data and Digitalization
12:30pm – 01:30pm Closing Session

TOPICS

The main theme of this 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 at that time. Therefore, the main topics covered by the seminar included 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
  • Machine monitoring and diagnosis systems
  • Machine unit monitoring techniques
  • Machine protection systems

  • Data collection and procedures
  • Digitalisation of Hydropower Plants
  • Data processing
  • New ways in diagnosis of machine units

  • Technical innovations
  • Projects
  • Operation
  • Hydro in Synergy with Other Renewables
  • Smart storage
  • Economic situation
  • Hydro in Combination with other Storage Technologies

  • 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
  • FSI calculations and approaches
  • Numerical investigations of hydraulic and electrical components
  • Efficiency increase
  • Cavitating flows and erosion
  • Unsteady flow phenomena in hydraulic machines
  • Numerical life time investigations
  • 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
  • Auto-Oscillating phenomena

  • 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. Eduard DOUJAK

TU Wien, Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, Research Unit of Fluid-Flow Machinery, AUSTRIA […]

International Scientific and Organizing Committee