Design of an experimental test stand for francis type hydraulic turbines

Author

Kavurmaci, Berat ; Akin, Hasan ; Ayli, Ece ; Celebioglu, Kutay ; Aradag, Selin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., TOBB Univ. of Econ. & Technol., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2013

Firstpage

876

Lastpage

880

Abstract

Recently, TOBB University of Economics and Technology was awarded a grant for a project on "Design, Construction and Test of Hydraulic Turbines" from Turkish Ministry of Development. The project includes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) aided hydraulic and structural design, geometry optimization, manufacturing and testing of hydraulic turbines. The main objective of the research presented here is to design a hydro turbine test stand which tests the performance and cavitation characteristics of turbine models according to standards. The paper describes the characteristics of the designed test stand.

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; hydraulic turbines; test equipment; CFD aided hydraulic design; CFD aided structural design; Francis type hydraulic turbines; cavitation characteristics; computational fluid dynamics; experimental test stand design; geometry optimization; Calibration; Computational fluid dynamics; Floors; Hydraulic turbines; Laboratories; Reservoirs; Francis turbine; experiment; hydraulic turbines; test stand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG), 2013 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

2155-5516

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PowerEng.2013.6635725

Filename

6635725