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- Title
Coupled Electric and Hydraulic Control of a PRS Turbine in a Real Transport Water Network.
- Authors
Sinagra, Marco; Aricò, Costanza; Tucciarelli, Tullio; Amato, Pietro; Fiorino, Michele
- Abstract
Although many devices have recently been proposed for pressure regulation and energy harvesting in water distribution and transport networks, very few applications are still documented in the scientific literature. A new in-line Banki turbine with positive outflow pressure and a mobile regulating flap, named Power Recovery System (PRS), was installed and tested in a real water transport network for the regulation of pressure and flow rate. The PRS turbine was directly connected to a 55 kW asynchronous generator with variable rotational velocity, and coupled to an inverter. The start-up tests showed how automatic adjustment of the flap position and the runner velocity variation are able to change the characteristic curve of the PRS according to the flow delivered by the water manager or to the pressure set-point assigned downstream or upstream of the system, maintaining good efficiency values in hydropower production.
- Subjects
HYDRAULIC control systems; SCIENTIFIC literature; INDUCTION generators; TURBINES; WATER pressure; ENERGY harvesting
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 6, p1194
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w11061194