Water Tunnel to test and characterization of experimental designs of Hydrokinetics Turbines

  1. Alvarez-Alvarez, Eduardo 1
  2. Fernandez-Jimenez, Aitor 1
  3. Rico-Secades, Manuel 1
  4. Calleja-Rodriguez, Antonio Javier 1
  5. Fernandez-Francos, Joaquin 1
  6. Alvarez-Fernandez, Mario 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Revista:
Workrooms Journal

ISSN: 2386-2483

Any de publicació: 2018

Volum: 1

Número: 6

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.15592/WORKROOMS.2018.0005 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

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This article describes the design of a water tunnel type infrastructure that has been built and implemented at the Polytechnic School of Mieres (EPM, University of Oviedo). The tunnel has been conceived as an equipment that allows testing of different prototypes of hydrokinetic turbines. It includes a hydraulic system calculated for, by means of a recirculation between two tanks, to achieve high water velocities in a channel, and a control system (hardware and software) that allows to adjust different hydraulic parameters (speed and height of the water sheet) and perform the operation control of the microturbine to be tested. By using the water tunnel different turbine designs and control strategies can be characterized.