Transposition of Francis turbine cavitation compliance at partial load to different operating conditions

HYPERBOLE Symposium 2017 (HYdropower plants PERformance and flexiBle Operation towards Lean integration of new renewable Energies)

Gomes, J.^1 ; Favrel, A.^1 ; Landry, C.^2 ; Nicolet, C.^2 ; Avellan, F.^1

EPFL Laboratory for Hydraulic Machines, Avenue de Cour 33bis, Lausanne

1007, Switzerland^1

Power Vision Engineering Sarl, Ecublens, Switzerland^2

关键词: Cavitation compliance;    Cavitation vortex ropes;    Different operating conditions;    Hydraulic circuits;    Operating condition;    Part load conditions;    Resonance condition;    Turbine cavitation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/813/1/012030/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/813/1/012030

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Francis turbines operating in part load conditions experience a swirling flow at the runner outlet leading to the development of a precessing cavitation vortex rope in the draft tube. This cavitation vortex rope changes drastically the velocity of pressure waves traveling in the draft tube and may lead to resonance conditions in the hydraulic circuit. The wave speed being strongly related to the cavitation compliance, this research work presents a simple model to explain how it is affected by variations of operating conditions and proposes a method to transpose its values. Even though the focus of this paper is on transpositions within the same turbine scale, the methodology is also expected to be tested for the model to prototype transposition in the future. Comparisons between measurements and calculations are in good agreement.