Recent Advances in Hydro-Mechanical Turbines: Powering the Future
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 610
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the flow mechanism and multiphase flow of hydraulic machinery; Pelton turbine; flow mechanism; flow interference; ocean energy fluid machinery
Interests: internal flow theory of hydraulic machinery; hydraulic optimization design of hydraulic machinery; fluid–solid coupling and hydraulic excitation of key components of hydraulic machinery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The power sector is responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions, making it the single largest contributor to global warming. The low-carbon transformation process of the power industry is crucial to the realization of human society producing net zero carbon emissions in the future. Renewable energy in the form of wind and solar power will probably become the main sources of power in the future. In order to ensure the consumption of new energy with strong volatility, the importance of hydropower as the basic power supply in future power systems will increase, while the most promising energy storage facility-pumped storage projects will also effectively smooth out the fluctuations in renewable energy, ensuring the stability of the power grid. At present, huge Francis turbines with a 1000 MW unit capacity have been put into production in China's Baihetan hydropower station, a huge amount of pumped storage projects have been launched, projects demonstrating ternary pumped storage power stations are in preparation, and the exploitation of many ultra-high water head hydropower resources in the Himalayas still awaits. At present, the hydraulic machinery industry is booming. From land to sea, we are also discovering ocean energy as a kind of renewable energy with considerable potential. The research field of hydraulic machinery for efficient harvesting of ocean energy has gained subsequent attention.
In summary, the development of hydraulic machinery is critical to the energy revolution and the transformation of the power industry. As a basic power with strong regulation performance, the role of hydropower will also change from supplying clean power.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modeling, application, control, and condition monitoring of all types of Hydro-Mechanical Turbines.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Recent advances in hydro turbines such as Francis turbines/Pelton turbines/Kaplan turbines/Bulb Turbines;
- Recent advances in reversible pump turbines and ternary pumped storage machines;
- Electric motor/generator technology for hydro turbine units;
- Online and offline status monitoring technology for hydraulic machinery;
- Optimization design method for hydraulic machinery;
- Recent advances in modeling methods;
- Multi-field coupling technology for hydraulic machinery equipment;
- Recent advances in hydraulic machinery for ocean energy.
Dr. Yexiang Xiao
Prof. Dr. Ruofu Xiao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- giant Francis turbine
- giant Pelton turbine
- reversible pump turbine storage machines
- ternary pumped storage machines
- ocean energy
