High fluid shear strain causes injury in silver shark: Preliminary implications for Mekong hydropower turbine design

The Lower Mekong Basin is facing unprecedented threats to fish diversity from hydropower development. There is increasing pressure on developers and construction authorities to design solutions to improve fish survival through turbines, thus protecting the resources in regions being developed for hydropower. A hydraulic characteristic of hydropower turbines with known fisheries impacts is fluid shear stress. Elevated shear stress occurs where rapidly flowing water passes near spillways, screens and within turbine draft tubes. Shear stress can have adverse impacts on fish, but no work has assessed whether this holds true for Mekong River species. A flume was used to determine critical tolerances of silver shark, Balantiocheilos melanopterus (Bleeker), to shear stress rates at a high‐velocity jet which simulated a hydropower turbine. Fish were assessed for injury or mortality following exposure. Results were compared against a no‐shear control. Injury and mortality were greater at higher shear stress exposures. Injuries occurred at all shear exposure levels with mortality at shear levels higher than 600/s. This approach should help design future hydropower turbines if data on other species demonstrate similar results. If the likelihood of adverse impact is high, then shear stress will need to be considered in the design of future hydropower facilities.     

基于SOA的水轮机调速系统PID参数优化

针对现有优化方法复杂、易陷入局部最优等问题,为水轮机调速系统提出了一种基于人群搜索算法的比例-积分-微分控制参数优化方法.为验证该算法的可行性,建立了水轮机调速系统非线性模型,选取水轮发电机组转速偏差的积分时间绝对误差指标作为目标函数进行优化.为验证优化结果的有效性,将人群搜索算法的控制效果与参考文献中粒子群算法的控制效果进行了对比分析.仿真结果表明,在5%频率扰动下,人群搜索算法自第29次迭代起已收敛,经其优化的系统能在8秒内趋于稳定,此时系统的超调量为1.6%;在10%负荷扰动下,人群搜索算法自第25次迭代起已收敛,其优化效果与粒子群算法优化效果基本相同,两者均在10秒内让系统趋于稳定,但人群搜索算法优化的积分时间绝对误差指标比粒子群算法优化的积分时间绝对误差指标小,表明人群搜索算法具有更好的搜索功能,在一定程度上改善了孤网运行条件下机组的动态性能.     

Turbine entrainment and passage of potadromous fish through hydropower dams: Developing conceptual frameworks and metrics for moving beyond turbine passage mortality

Potadromous fishes are vulnerable to involuntary entrainment through hydropower turbines. However, turbines can also provide a downstream passage route for potadromous fish. Here, we review evidence for turbine entrainment and passage in potadromous fish, and evaluate the effects of these processes on upstream and downstream populations. We develop conceptual frameworks and metrics to quantify vulnerability to turbine entrainment removals, and to quantify the efficiency of turbines as a downstream passage route. We highlight factors that influence these processes and provide case‐studies demonstrating their applicability. We found that juvenile potadromous fish are being entrained through turbines at rates high enough to impact upstream populations. Given that juvenile passage survival is often high, we argue that turbines provide an important downstream passage route for potadromous fish. We show that entrainment vulnerability is likely a function of interactions between in‐reservoir fish behaviour, habitat configuration and operations and thus not well captured by passage mortality estimates. Similarly, we show that while passage mortality can limit downstream passage efficiency, passage success is also dependent on reservoir and forebay navigation, along with survival and fitness in the downstream river. We advocate for a shift in focus away from estimates of passage mortality and injury, which have previously accounted for the majority of turbine passage research. Instead, we recommend an approach that focusses on quantification of the factors that influence downstream passage efficiency and entrainment vulnerability. Moreover, we highlight the need to better understand the broader scale impacts of these events on upstream and downstream populations.     

转轮下环间隙对混流式水轮机内部流动特性的影响

水轮机转轮间隙内的泄漏涡、泄漏流等复杂的湍流易影响水轮机的性能与稳定性。为了分析下环间隙对混流式水轮机能量特性和内部流态的影响,该文基于N-S方程和SST湍流模型,考虑了0.6 Qd(Qd为设计流量工况)、0.8 Qd、Qd、1.2 Qd共4种流量工况,对5种下环间隙下的混流式水轮机模型机进行三维全流道数值计算。通过对比不同下环间隙方案对混流式水轮机效率与容积损失的影响,结合不同水轮机内部流场特征,分析下环间隙与水轮机性能的关系。计算结果表明:下环间隙由0.4 mm增大到1.3 mm,机组泄漏量增大,水轮机效率整体呈下降趋势。其中,当机组在小流量0.6 Qd工况运行时,间隙对水轮机能量特性影响最为明显,效率下降了4.1个百分点。当机组在小流量0.6 Qd与0.8 Qd工况运行时,下环间隙增大,间隙内部流场与尾水管内部流场呈现小幅度恶化;当机组在大流量1.2 Qd工况运行时,下环间隙增大,转轮叶片吸力面压力分布以及尾水管内部流场均得到改善。该研究可为混流式水轮机结构设计提供有效参考。     

湍流强度对风电机组动力学特性及载荷的影响

为研究湍流强度对机组动力学特性及气动载荷的影响,以3.3 MW三叶片水平轴风电机组为研究对象,采用仿真及试验相结合的方法,并对来流风速和主导载荷进行功率谱分析。通过开展4种湍流强度0.10、0.12、0.14和0.16的计算仿真,结果表明随着湍流强度的增加,风电机组机舱振动加速度、载荷及等效疲劳载荷都有规律性变化。为验证仿真结果的合理性,对某风场的型式测试机组进行1a多的数据测试采集和分析。测试结果表明,机组运行在0.06、0.08、0.10和0.12这4种不同湍流强度下,其机组在不同风速运行下的机组振动及载荷同样出现有规律性的变化,仿真与实测结果的变化趋势吻合度较高。该研究为风电场风电机组的微观选址提供依据,也对风电机组设计有一定的指导意义。     

农村小水电站机组增容改造的方法

我国在20世纪70年代兴建的小水电站已运行了几十年，随着新技术与新材料的应用，对老电站进行增容改造，提高电站的调峰能力是提高电站和县电网经济效益的关键措施之一。介绍了机组增容改造的方法和实际应用中应注意的问题。     

水泵水轮机流动可视化图像解析系

主要介绍了自行开发的水泵水轮机流动可视化图像的解析原理，并就示踪物的追踪与最佳相关域的确定问题进行了深入的分析，介绍了图像解析的程序设计的思想与功能。试验与计算结果表明本套软件适合于旋转的流体机械的流场图像的解析计算。     

水泵与水轮机空化状态监测与诊断的研究进展

影响水泵与水轮机使用寿命与性能的主要问题是空化空蚀现象，在现场监测与分析水泵与水轮机的空化状态是空化空蚀研究的重要领域，根据国外对空化监测与分析的最新研究成果和背景噪声的处理手段。介绍了空化监测与分析的新方法，肉加速度计与声压计测得的空化信号时域图，功率谱图和归一化谱图中，反映了出空化发生的特征，信号处理方法的意义。     

高含沙水流水轮机转轮的改型与抗磨蚀研究

进行高含沙水流水轮机转轮的改型研究，关键是要从正确确定转轮设计参数和轴面流道型式入手，根据三维水力设计理论，考虑导叶与转轮匹配关系进行叶型设计，针对不同破坏机理选择强磨蚀区采用金属喷涂或非金属保护等综合措施，使水轮机在高舍沙水流中运行时出力增加、抗磨蚀能力提高。     

灯泡贯流式水轮发电机定子三维温度场的研究

建立了发电机定子三维温度场计算的数学模型，以水轮发电机的半齿、半槽为计算区域，用有限元方法对5500kW／6471kVA灯泡贯流式发电机定子的温度场进行了求解，得到了发电机定子的温度场、各部件温度最高点及分布。通过求解定子机座和定子轭部的体平均温度，为机组的设计提供参考。