The 8th International Conference on Hydraulic Efficiency Measurement

                                 (Oct. 21 - 23, 2010)

Organised by AHEC, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India

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International Organising Committee

National Organising Committee

National Advisory Committee

Detailed Programme

Sessions: Paper Presentation

• Technical Session I: Acoustic and Dilution Methods of Discharge Measurement
• Technical Session II: Pressure-Time Method of Discharge Measurement
• Technical Session III: Miscellaneous Topics
• Technical Session IV: Efficiency Measurement by Thermodynamic Method
• Technical Session V: New Efficiency Measuring Techniques
• Technical Session VI: CFD and Numerical Analysis

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Photographs

• Group Photo
• Inauguration
• Field Trip
• Sessions
• Tutorial

List of Participants

Technical Session I: Acoustic and Dilution Methods of Discharge Measurement

• Hydro Power Development  in India- Praveen Saxena and Arun Kumar

• Accuracy of an Absolute Method used for Relative Measurements: Study of an Acoustic Transit Time Method -Urban Andersson, Niklas Dahlbäck, Per Sundqvist
• Optimization of the ADM by Adaptive Weighting for the Gaussian Quadrature Integration - Peter Gruber, Thomas Staubli, Thomas Tresch, Fabian Wermelinger
• Improvements to the Accuracy of Discharge Measurements by Acoustic Scintillation Resulting from Revisions to Data Processing Procedures - D. D. Lemon, D. R. Topham, D. Billenness
• Flow Measurement in Hydroelectric Stations using Tracer Dilution Method – Case Studies - U. Muthukumar, Jacob Chandapillai, S. Saseendran
• Performance Testing of a Low Head Small Hydro Power (SHP) Plant-Zho Suwei (Taiwan) –a Case Study -Santosh Ghosh, Sudhir Mali and Jagadish T. Kshirsagar

Technical Session II: Pressure-Time Method of Discharge Measurement

• The Pressure-Time Measurements Project at LTU and NTNU -Pontus P. Jonsson, Jørgen Ramdal, Michel J. Cervantes, Ole G. Dahlhaug, Torbjørn K. Nielsen
• Uncertainties for Pressure-Time Efficiency Measurements -Jørgen Ramdal, Pontus P. Jonsson, Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug, Torbjørn K. Nielsen, Michel Cervantes
• Selected Problems in Calculation Procedures for the Gibson Discharge Measurement Method -Adam Adamkowski, Waldemar Janicki
• On Site Pressure Pulse Measurement of Hydraulic Machines - S. Rammohan, S. Manikandan, S. Saseendran

Technical Session III: Miscellaneous Topics

• Smart Rehabilitation Project of 7 Small HPP’s -Petr Ševčík, Alois Krejčí
• Development and Testing of a Cross Flow Turbine -A. Tamil Chandran, G. Anil, Jacob Chandapillai
• Silt Monitoring via Ultrasonic Signal Analysis -Bruno Lüscher, Peter Gruber
• Center of Excellence at Kathmandu University for R&D and Test Certification of Hydraulic Turbines -Biraj Singh Thapa, Bhola Thapa, Ole G. Dahlhaug
• Development of LabVIEW based Integrated Data Acquisition System for Pump as Turbine Generator Unit Performance Evaluation -Raj Kumar Viral, S.N. Singh
• Low Cost ROV for Hydraulic Measurements and Navigation within the Canals/Rivers -K. S. Nagla, Moin Uddin, Dilbag Singh

Technical Session IV: Efficiency Measurement by Thermodynamic Method

• Uncertainty and Performance of a Low Head Thermodynamic Measurement -Jørgen Ramdal, Atle Lundekvam,Eirik Bøkko, Ole G. Dahlhaug, Torbjørn K. Nielsen
• Measurement of Turbine Efficiency by Thermodynamic Method for Field Acceptance Test of Hydro Turbine and Comparison with Model Test Result -Mukesh Mangla, Nitin Khodre
• Corrective Terms of Thermodynamic Efficiency Measurements -André Abgottspon, Marc Briggeler, Thomas Staubli
• IEC 60041–1991, “Field Acceptance Tests to Determine the Hydraulic Performance of Hydraulic Turbines, Storage Pumps and Pump-Turbines”. Clause 14 “Thermodynamic Method for Measuring Efficiency” Comments -Harald Hulaas, Leif Vinnogg
• Efficiency Measurement of Hydro Machine by Thermodynamic Method - Patil Shantaram. S., H. K. Verma, Arun Kumar
• Water to wire efficiency measurements in small hydroelectric units by means of thermodynamic and “thermo-calorimetric” method -Fabio F. Muciaccia, Gianalberto Grego, Paolo Ciolli, Arno Dossi

Technical Session V: New Efficiency Measuring Techniques

• A New Method for Continuous Efficiency Measurement of Hydraulic Turbines -Jonathan Nicolle, Gilles Proulx
• Prototype Hill Chart Testing of a Saxo Unit -Emmanuel Côté, Éric Cloutier
• On the Use of Spiral Piezometer Tap Calibration Equations as a Transfer Standard between Absolute Discharge Measurement -D. R. Topham
• 3-Dimensional Field Measurements in Short Intakes using an Acoustic Doppler Profiler -Dr J Skripalle
• An Efficiencies’ Comparison Concerning the Energy Losses between inclined Submerged and Free Water Outflows Downstream of a Hydropower Plant -D. Dimitriou, J. Demetriou, E. Retsinis

Technical Session VI: CFD and Numerical Analysis

• Aspects of the numerical simulation of the flow in penstocks -E. Casartelli, L. Roux, N. Ledergerber
• Investigation of Flow Profile in Open Channels using CFD -B. K. Gandhi, H.K. Verma, Boby Abraham
• Hydraulic Performance of Elbow Draft Tube for different Geometric Configurations using CFD -Vishnu Prasad, Ruchi Khare, Abhas Chincholikar
• CFD Approach for Prediction of Efficiency of Francis turbine -Sanjay Jain, R. P. Saini, Arun Kumar