The paper reviews recent research and development activities in the field of hydropower
technology. It covers emerging and advanced technologies to mitigate flow instabilities …

Well knowing a good-running hydraulic turbine has important operational and financial
benefits to those who operate a plant. Fatigue damage is the most fundamental failure type …

This study presents a multi-electrolyzers hybrid system for wind-hydrogen system, and two
control strategies are proposed. And two different configurations that could achieve the …

About 50% of all hydropower plants (HPPs) worldwide were originally commissioned more
than 40 years ago, so that the advanced age of the fleet is a major concern across all …

Electricity generation from solar and wind has raised a significant concern about the stability
of grid networks. Hydroelectricity plays an important role to balance the stability of grid …

There is a general need to change hydropower operational regimes to balance the growing
contribution of variable renewable energy sources in power systems. Quantifying the burden …

Hydropower is a clean and renewable source of energy which is widely used to generate
electric power and stabilize the power grid. It can respond quickly to any change in demand …

Hydropower offers highly flexible, low-carbon generation that can be used to balance
electricity grids with high levels of wind and solar penetration. This will become increasingly …

Experimental and numerical studies on a high head model Francis turbine were carried out
over the entire range of turbine operation. A complete Hill diagram was constructed and …

The development of high-head pumped-storage projects presents various opportunities and
challenges. One challenge is the operational stability of pumped-storage power plants …