Publications by Vlad Hasmatuchi

DuoTurbo: Implementation of a Counter-Rotating Hydroturbine for Energy Recovery in Drinking Water Networks

François Avellan, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Daniel Biner, Samuel Chevailler

To enhance the sustainability of water supply systems, the development of new technologies for micro scale hydropower remains an active field of research. The present paper deals with the implementation of a new micro-hydroelectric system for drinking wate ...

2021

Production flexibility of small run-of-river power plants: KWGO smart-storage case study

Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Jessica Zordan, Matthieu Dreyer, Siamak Alimirzazadeh, Steve Crettenand

In the framework of the new Swiss feed-in-tariff system for Small Hydropower Plants (SHP), the aim of the SmallFLEX project, led by HES-SO Valais and performed in collaboration with EPFL, WSL, EAWAG, PVE and FMV, is to show how SHP can provide winter peak ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Experimental and numerical investigations of a high-head pumped-storage power plant at speed no-load

François Avellan, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Cécile Münch-Alligné

Due to the increasing integration of new renewable energies, the electrical grid undergoes more frequent instabilities. Hydroelectric power plants, particularly pumped storage plants, are well suited for grid control. However, this objective requires exten ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Experimental characterization of a five blade tubular propeller turbine for pipe inline installation

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Irene Almeida Samora, Cécile Münch-Alligné

The interest in micro-hydropower in existing infrastructure is increasing since this is a technology with low environmental impacts and potential for energy recovery in different types of installation. The technologies available for these schemes are still ...

Elsevier2016

Simulation of energy recovery on water utility networks by a micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners

François Avellan, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné

Wherever relief valves and other energy dissipation devices are installed to limit the pressure, water utility networks provide unexploited hydropower potentials. This is mainly due to a lack of economically viable technologies for energy recovery in the p ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

Engineering & Performance of DuoTurbo: Microturbine with Counter-Rotating Runners

François Avellan, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Loïc Andolfatto, Daniel Biner

Considering the nuclear phase-out strategy of several European countries and the future tendency to promote renewable energies, the exploitation of small hydropower sites (

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

Energy production with a tubular propeller turbine

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Irene Almeida Samora

Micro-hydropower is a way of improving the energetic efficiency of existent water systems. In the particular case of drinking water systems, several studies have showed that pressure reducing valves can be by-passed with turbines in order to recover the di ...

2016

Hydrodynamics of a Pump-Turbine Operating at Off-Design Conditions in Generating Mode

Vlad Hasmatuchi

Modern pump-turbines are subject to frequent switching between the pumping and generating modes with extended operation under off-design conditions. Depending on the specific speed of the pump-turbine, the discharge-speed as well as torque-speed generating ...

EPFL2012

Influence of the Pump-Turbine Guide Vanes Vibrations on the Pressure Fluctuations in the Rotor-Stator Vaneless Gap

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Steven Roth, Francisco Botero

We investigate the Rotor-Stator Interaction in a pump-turbine reduced scale model by considering fluid-structure coupling. The pressure fluctuations amplitude in the rotor-stator vaneless gap has generally been shown to increase linearly with the operating ...

2011

Experimental Evidence of Rotating Stall in a Pump-Turbine at Off-Design Conditions in Generating Mode

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Steven Roth, Francisco Botero

An experimental investigation of the rotating stall in reduced scale model of a low specific speed radial pump-turbine at runaway and turbine brake conditions in generating mode is achieved. Measurements of wall pressure in the stator are performed along w ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2011