supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52336001);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant Nos.2022TQ0168,2023M731895)。
The head-flow rate curve with double humps brings greater challenges to the stable operation of a pump-turbine in pump mode,and the present investigation aims to reveal the formation mechanisms behind it.We performed ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52079034,and 52209108);the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(Grant No.2023YFQ0021);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant Nos.2022M720948,and 2023T160162);the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province,China(Grant No.HL2023E058)。
To elucidate the dynamic mechanisms of unbalanced impellers in ultra-high head pump-turbines(PTs),this study employed a one-and three-dimensional coupled method to simulate the pump power-trip(PPT)process of an ultra-...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52209108 and 52079034);Sichuan Science and Technology Program(Grant No.2023YFQ0021);the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province,China(Grant No.LH2023E058);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2022M720948)。
Large-head variable-amplitude pump turbines(PTs) encounter serious transient hydraulic instability issues. To explore the evolution mechanisms of pressure fluctuations(PFs) and flow patterns inside large-head variable...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52179092,51879266);supported by the 2115 Talent Development Program of China Agricultural University.
Clarifying how radial gap affects the vibration characteristic of a disc-like structure is of importance in engineering applications,such as in evaluating the operational stability of a runner of a pump turbine.In the...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51876047);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Projection(Grant No.2018M630353);the Industrial Prospect and Key Core Technology of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BE2019009-1).
Hydraulic loss and vorticity are two most common methods in analyzing the flow characteristics in hydro-machine,i.e.,centrifugal pump,Francis turbine,etc.While the relationship and correlation between hydraulic loss a...
supported by the Open Research Fund Program of the State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,Whan University(Grant No.2017SDG01).
The load rejection imposes a danger in the pumped storage hydropower plants(PSPs),especially when two or more pump turbines reject their loads simultaneously.In this paper,the simultaneous load rejection scenarios in ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51606050);Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2016M591527);Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Fund(Grant No.LBH-Z16057);Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province(Grant No.E2017038);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.HIT.NSRIF.2019062)
The use of reversible pump turbines(RPT) within pumped storage power plants goes with prolonged periods of off-design operating conditions, which leads to the onset of operating mode-dependent instabilities. In order ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51536008);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.3182014);Science and Technology on Water Jet Propulsion Laboratory(Grant No.61422230103162223004);State Key Laboratory for Hydroscience and Engineering(Grant No.sklhse-2017-E-02)
Positive slope characteristics are very important for the safe and stable operation of a pump-turbine. In this study, the unsteady flows in a pump-turbine at pump mode are investigated numerically. To predict the posi...
supported by Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery(Xihua Uninversity);Ministry of Education Sichuan(Grant Nos.SZJJ-2017-089 and SZJJ-2017-100-1-001);Open Research Fund Program of State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering(Grant No.sklhse-2018-E-02)
Load rejection is one of the most crucial transient processes in pump-turbines. However, only a few achievements on the internal flow mechanism of pump-turbines in load rejection processes have been presented. In this...
The authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51476083) for its financial support.
The stability of pump-turbines is of great importance to the operation of pumped storage power (PSP) stations. Both hydraulic instabilities and operational instabilities have been reported in PSP stations in China. ...