Selected Contributions of the ViennaHydro 2022
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 15279
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CFD; turbomachinery; rotating stall; modal decomposition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydropower for future generations is a theme that like no other emphasises the long-range impacts of hydropower activities. All measures taken today will have a major impact on future generations. Therefore, it is necessary to make hydropower viable for the future.
The role of hydropower is ever-changing. Hydropower is and was an important supplier of electricity from clean and renewable resources. Due to longstanding experience in the field, hydropower is a highly developed and reliable technology. The significance of hydropower will increase in the future, enabling the transition to climate-friendly electricity production. The energy supply harvested from wind and solar resources does not balance the demand in electrical grids. Hydropower has the unique ability and potential to supply, store, and regulate energy levels in electrical power grids. Grid operators are increasingly utilising the flexibility of storage power plants to stabilise the electrical grid. To meet the demands and new challenges, existing hydropower technology must be developed further for future generations. Which research and innovations are required for the future of hydropower? It is precisely this exciting question that we want to pursue in this Special Issue with a variety of focus topics, as follows.
- Innovation, trends and future technologies;
- Flexibilization and smart grids;
- Requirements from electrical grids to power generation and storage;
- Quantum computing, digitalisation on machine- and system-level technological aspects;
- Planning and operation of variable-speed pumped storage plants;
- Operation, maintenance, rehabilitation and modernisation;
- Design rules, standardisation and legal aspects;
- Physical modelling and numerical simulations;
- Experimental investigations of models and prototypes;
- Cavitation under extreme load conditions;
- Hydraulic systems and transient behaviour;
- Market change, business models and economics of hydro power;
- Sustainability and environmental impact;
- Small hydro.
Dr. Bernhard Semlitsch
Prof. Dr. Christian Bauer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- small hydro
- flexibilization and smart grids
- sustainability and environmental impact
- hydraulic systems and transient behaviour
- cavitation
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