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VARIABLE SPEED (FSFC)
TESTED AT Z'MUTT SWITZERLAND
BATTERY/ TURBINE HYBRID
TESTED AT: VOGELGRUN, FRANCE
HYDRAULIC SHORT CIRCUIT
(PELTON) TESTED AT GRAND'MAISON, FRANCE
VARIABLE SPEED (DFIM)
TESTED AT: FRADES 2, PORTUGAL
HYDRAULIC SHORT CIRCUIT
(REVERSIBLE FRANCIS) TESTED AT: ALQUEVA
ENHANCED FIXED SPEED
TESTED AT: ALTO LINDOSO (HIGH HEAD) AND CANICADA, PORTUGAL (MEDIUM HEAD)
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Implementing flexible technologies in practice

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Pushing flexibility to the limit with new equipment

Key words: pumped storage, full-size frequency converters, Grande Dixence, Alpiq

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Computation fluid dynamics investigation of the flow in junctions: application to hydraulic short circuit operating mode

Key words: CFD; RANS; hydraulic shortcircuit; OpenFOAM

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Assessments of hydropower plants start-up sequences and equivalent runner damage under transient operation

Key words: speed-no-load, transient sequences

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Optimization of turbine start-up sequence of a full size frequency converter variable speed pump-turbine

Key words: Full Size Frequency Converter, hydraulic transient simulations

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Z’Mutt demonstration project video 2021

Z’Mutt is a pumping station located in Canton Valais, Switzerland

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Business use cases for the provision of flexibility services by hydropower

Key words: KPI, business cases

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Turbine mode start-up simulation of a FSFC variable speed pump-turbine prototype – Part I: 1D simulation

key words: FSFC, CFD simulations

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Turbine mode start-up simulation of a variable speed Francis pump-turbine prototype – Part II: 3-D unsteady CFD and FEM

Key words: FSFC, FEM analyses

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Flexibility enhancements in pumped hydro storage power plants through variable speed drives

Key words: Torque , Frequency conversion , Rotors

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Recommendations towards the deployment of hydropower flexibility technologies

XFLEX HYDRO made seven key recommendations to policy makers

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The Hydropower Extending Power System Flexibility (XFLEX HYDRO) project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857832.

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