2009
DOI: 10.1243/09576509jpe645
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Hydraulic air pumps for low-head hydropower

Abstract: Abstract:Hydropower is a proven renewable energy resource and future expansion potential exists in smaller-scale, low-head sites. A novel approach to low-head hydropower at run-of-river and tidal estuary sites is to include an intermediate air transmission stage. Water is made to flow through a siphon, rather than a conventional water turbine, and at the top of the siphon the pressure is sub-atmospheric and air is entrained into the water. The siphon forms a novel, hydraulically powered vacuum pump or 'hydraul… Show more

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“…The pressure staggering option (PRESTO) discretization scheme was applied for the pressure, while the geometric reconstruction scheme was employed for the volume fraction. 22,23 The transient temporal discretization was first-order implicit style. In the calculation, the physical time step was set to 0.01 s. The numerical simulations were performed on the high performance computing platform, which has four Intel Xeon 8160 GPUs.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The pressure staggering option (PRESTO) discretization scheme was applied for the pressure, while the geometric reconstruction scheme was employed for the volume fraction. 22,23 The transient temporal discretization was first-order implicit style. In the calculation, the physical time step was set to 0.01 s. The numerical simulations were performed on the high performance computing platform, which has four Intel Xeon 8160 GPUs.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This definition of inefficiency is impractical since it does not relate to the generated power of the air turbine. A similar approach was followed by Howey and Pullen [6] where a slip velocity was introduced in the calculation of efficiency to account for the velocity difference between water and air bubbles, but still assumed a constant water velocity in the siphon.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Howey (2009) considera que en un temps de 0,04 s, les bombolles de 2,5 mm de diàmetre adquireixen la mateixa temperatura de l'aigua dins un marge d'error del 5%, tot i tenir en compte exclusívament la conducció com a mecanisme de transferència de calor.…”
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