Hydro turbine prototype testing and generation of performance curves: Fully automated approach

Renewable Energy

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 433-441

  Aggidis, George A ^a   Židonis, Audrius ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation; Hill charts; Hydropower; Renewable energy; Turbine testing; Turbines

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; TURBINES;

DEVELOPMENT STAGES; HILL CHARTS; HYDROPOWER; PERFORMANCE CURVE; PROTOTYPE TESTING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TURBINE TESTING;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

AUTOMATION; DESIGN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TURBINE;

EID: 84902588813     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.05.043     Document Type: Article

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