TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling a Bulb-Style Kaplan Unit Hydrogovernor and Turbine in Mathworks-Simulink and RTDS-RSCAD
AU - Banerjee, Abhishek
AU - Alam, S. M.Shafiul
AU - Mosier, Thomas M.
AU - Undrill, John
N1 - Funding Information:
This manuscript has been authored by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC07-05ID14517 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The work was supported through the U.S. Department of Energy Water Power Technology Office HydroWIRES Initiative.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Some run-of-river (ROR) hydropower plants use a horizontal bulb-style Kaplan turbine. This turbine and the corresponding governor are not represented well in standard high-fidelity power-system modeling platforms. This paper presents the characterization, development, and modeling of bulb-style Kaplan turbine and associated hydrogovernor equipment in two platforms: Simulink from the MathWorks, Inc., and RSCAD from RTDS Technologies, Inc. The developed models enable accurate assessment of the response of a bulb-style Kaplan hydropower unit to changes in electrical loading and water conditions. The resulting models enable accurate digital real-time simulation with hardware-in-the-loop testing of this class of turbine, which was not previously possible. This, in turn, improves the ability to innovate these technologies and hybridize them in a lab setting, accelerating the potential for innovation in this type of ROR hydropower plant.
AB - Some run-of-river (ROR) hydropower plants use a horizontal bulb-style Kaplan turbine. This turbine and the corresponding governor are not represented well in standard high-fidelity power-system modeling platforms. This paper presents the characterization, development, and modeling of bulb-style Kaplan turbine and associated hydrogovernor equipment in two platforms: Simulink from the MathWorks, Inc., and RSCAD from RTDS Technologies, Inc. The developed models enable accurate assessment of the response of a bulb-style Kaplan hydropower unit to changes in electrical loading and water conditions. The resulting models enable accurate digital real-time simulation with hardware-in-the-loop testing of this class of turbine, which was not previously possible. This, in turn, improves the ability to innovate these technologies and hybridize them in a lab setting, accelerating the potential for innovation in this type of ROR hydropower plant.
KW - H6E
KW - Kaplan turbine
KW - horizontal bulb-turbine
KW - run-of-river hydropower
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85135335886
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/10f55528-7abd-36bc-9335-9acd16373358/
U2 - 10.1109/TD43745.2022.9816952
DO - 10.1109/TD43745.2022.9816952
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85135335886
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference
BT - 2022 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, T and D 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, T and D 2022
Y2 - 25 April 2022 through 28 April 2022
ER -