Water Tunnel to test and characterization of experimental designs of Hydrokinetics Turbines

Álvarez, Eduardo Álvarez; Fernández-Jiménez, Aitor; Rico-Secades, M.; Calleja, A.J.; Francos, Joaquín Fernández; Fernández, Mario Álvarez

doi:10.15592/workrooms.2018.0005

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“…The first step consist in designing the hydraulic system that will allow to perform the tests with the different prototypes of vertical axis hydrokinetic microturbines [7]. This test bench, which has been designed following the guidelines of the Department of Fluid Mechanics (see Figure 1a), consists of: a main tank, built using stainless steel, which has three vertical deflectors to break turbulence that generate a non-speed reservoir of water at the entrance of the canal.…”

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Control and Monitoring System for Hydraulic Microturbines Test Benches

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The 2nd International Research Conference on Sustainable Energy, Engineering, Materials and Environment

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The present project aims to design the control and monitoring system for a test bench that will help to calculate the power level that can be extracted from wind vertical axis hydrokinetic microturbines. The workbench includes a hydraulic system calculated to, through a recirculation between two tanks, achieve high fluid speed in the canal, and the monitoring and power electronics systems to adjust different hydraulic parameters and to control the operation of the microturbine under test, providing the necessary measures to obtain the power coefficient versus tip speed ratio (Cp-λ) curves of the microturbine which will help to extract the Maximum Power Point.

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