Counter-rotating type pump-turbine unit cooperating with wind power unit

Murakami, Tengen; Kanemoto, Toshiaki

doi:10.1007/s11630-013-0585-2

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“…As one of these techniques, power stabilization system using the counterrotating type pump-turbine with wind turbine unit has been studied for decades by Kanemoto and his colleagues. [1][2][3][4] Thus far, many kinds of studies have been conducted on counter-rotating type pump-turbines to understand the mechanisms, internal flow characteristics, and hydrodynamic performance characteristics. [5][6][7][8][9] Kim et al 6,7 enhanced the turbine efficiency of a counter-rotating type pump-turbine unit being operated in turbine mode using various optimization techniques.…”

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Simultaneous efficiency improvement of pump and turbine modes for a counter-rotating type pump-turbine

Kim

Suh

Choi

et al. 2016

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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This article presents a multi-objective optimization to improve the hydrodynamic performance of a counter-rotating type pump-turbine operated in pump and turbine modes. The hub and tip blade angles of impellers/runners with four blades, which were extracted through a sensitivity test, were optimized using a hybrid multi-objective genetic algorithm with a surrogate model based on Latin hypercube sampling. Three-dimensional steady incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the shear stress transport turbulence model were discretized via finite volume approximations and solved on a hexahedral grid to analyze the flow in the pump-turbine domain. For the major hydrodynamic performance parameters, the pump and turbine efficiencies were selected as the objective functions. Global Pareto-optimal solutions were searched using the response surface approximation surrogate model with the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm, which is a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The trade-off between the two objective functions was determined and described with regard to the Pareto-optimal solutions. As a result, the pump and turbine efficiencies for the arbitrarily selected optimum designs in the Pareto-optimal solutions were increased as compared with the reference design.

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Simultaneous efficiency improvement of pump and turbine modes for a counter-rotating type pump-turbine

Kim

Suh

Choi

et al. 2016

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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“…To verify the accuracy of the numerical analysis, the results of the flow analysis in this work were compared to experimental data performed in the previous work [1]. The reference counterrotating type pump-turbine unit was considered for this validation.…”

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“…Thus, the power stabilization system should be certainly advanced to effectively solve the aforementioned problems, with various ideas. Lately, Kanemoto and his colleagues [1][2][3] have proposed the newly power stabilization system by using the counterrotating type pump-turbine unit with the pumped storage. They demonstrated that this system can instantaneously stabilize the output from the unstable power station with a wind turbine by using the counterrotating type pump-turbine unit.…”

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Multiobjective Optimization of a Counterrotating Type Pump-Turbine Unit Operated at Turbine Mode

Kim

Kasahara

Kanemoto

et al. 2014

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A multiobjective optimization for improving the turbine output and efficiency of a counterrotating type pump-turbine unit operated at turbine mode was carried out in this work. The blade geometry of both the runners was optimized using a hybrid multiobjective evolutionary algorithm coupled with a surrogate model. Three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the shear stress transport turbulence model were discretized by finite volume approximations and solved on hexahedral grids to analyze the flow in the pump-turbine unit. As major hydrodynamic performance parameters, the turbine output and efficiency were selected as objective functions with two design variables related to the hub profiles of both the runner blades. These objectives were numerically assessed at twelve design points selected by Latin hypercube sampling in the design space. Response surface approximation models for the objectives were constructed based on the objective function values at the design points. A fast nondominated sorting genetic algorithm for the local search coupled with the response surface approximation models was applied to determine the global Pareto-optimal solutions. The trade-off between the two objectives was determined and described with respect to the Pareto-optimal solutions. The results of this work showed that the turbine outputs and efficiencies of optimized pump-turbine units were simultaneously improved in comparison to the reference unit.

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“…To verify the accuracy of the numerical analysis, the results of the flow analysis were compared to experimental data performed in the previous work [1].…”

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Power Stabilization System with Unique Pumped Storage to Stabilize Momentarily Fluctuating Power from Renewable Resources (Counter-Rotating Type Pump-Turbine Unit Operated at Turbine Mode)

Kim¹,

Kasahara²,

Miyaji

et al. 2024

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Abstract. This serial research proposes the hybrid power stabilization system with the counter-rotating type pump-turbine unit, to stabilize momentarily fluctuating power from renewable energy resources. In this paper, the experiments are verified that this type pump-turbine unit is reasonably effective to stabilize momentarily/instantaneously the unstably fluctuating power from renewable energy resources. Furthermore, an optimization for improving the hydrodynamic performance at turbine mode of this pump-turbine unit is carried out by using numerical analysis based on three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. As a result, the optimization yielded a maximum increase in efficiency of 2.68% at the best efficiency point compared to a reference design. Detailed internal flow fields between the reference and optimum designs are analyzed and discussed in this work.

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Counter-rotating type pump-turbine unit cooperating with wind power unit

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Simultaneous efficiency improvement of pump and turbine modes for a counter-rotating type pump-turbine

Simultaneous efficiency improvement of pump and turbine modes for a counter-rotating type pump-turbine

Multiobjective Optimization of a Counterrotating Type Pump-Turbine Unit Operated at Turbine Mode

Power Stabilization System with Unique Pumped Storage to Stabilize Momentarily Fluctuating Power from Renewable Resources (Counter-Rotating Type Pump-Turbine Unit Operated at Turbine Mode)

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