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Water Power Peer Review

[Project/Subtask Title] [Presenter]

[Organization][Contact Info][Date]

[Title of larger project, if applicable]

[Principal Investigators: please use this template for your project presentation at the Peer Review Meeting, in early November 2011. Your project’s accomplishments and progress are the primary focus of Review.

Do not include any information that is copyrighted, proprietary, or confidential in your presentation. Presentations and review results may be made public after the review. Please submit a .PPT file]

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Turbine aeration design software for mitigating adverse environmental impacts

resulting from conventional hydropower turbines

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

University of Minnesota

John S. Gulliver

Fotis Sotiropoulos

Roger E. A. Arndt

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Purpose, Objectives, & Integration

• Aeration is needed at most hydroelectric facilities to add oxygen to low DO water released from the bottom of reservoirs by hydroturbines.

• One of the most effective means of aerating is through release of air on the turbine runner blades.

• Turbine runner designers do not have the tools (experiments or computational codes) to design effective aeration on a runner blade.

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Purpose, Objectives, & Integration

• This project will:– Perform experiments to develop a test-bed for all computational

codes used in hydroturbine design.– Develop and implement algorithms to simulate oxygen transfer

process in a hydroturbine

• Improved environmental performance and decreased environmental impacts of hydroturbines will advance the capabilities and reduce the cost of energy resulting from conventional hydropower technologies.

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Experiments on Runner Blades

• High Speed Water Tunnel• Well-Documented Blade• Air Injection• Detailed Measurements of

– Turbulence– Bubble size– Oxygen transfer

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Development of CFD Algorithms

• Bubble Size• Oxygen Transfer

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Anticipated Results

• Standard Blade– Test-bed for computational routines of all manufacturers,

available on web– $250,000 from DOE– $31,250 from the University of Minnesota

• Alstom Runner Blade– Improve Alstom capabilities in aerating turbines– $250,000 from Alstom– $31,250 from the University of Minnesota

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Plan, Schedule, & Budget

Schedule• Initiation date: TBD• Planned completion date: two years after initiation date

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Final Instructions (Not a template slide – for information purposes only)

• Your presentation, in MS PowerPoint format, is due to Ed Eugeni at Edward_Eugeni@sra.com. If your presentation is too large to email, contact Ed Eugeni at 240-223-5552 for alternative delivery options.

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Questions? (Not a template slide – for information purposes only)

• Contact: – Hoyt Battey at Hoyt.Battey@ee.doe.gov,

202-586-0143– or Ed Eugeni at Edward_Eugeni@sra.com,

240-223-5552