Loïc Andolfatto

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Renovation of hydraulic power plant: how to select the best technical options?

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Christian Landry, Loïc Andolfatto, Joao Gomes Pereira Junior

With the Energy Strategy 2050, Switzerland wishes to focus on balanced utilization of hydropower potentials and new renewable energy sources to cope with nuclear energy phasing out. Integration of large amounts of new renewable energies such as wind and so ...

2018

Model testing beyond the scope of International Standards: an outlook

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto

The roles of hydropower plants within the energy system has been evolving during the last two decades. The potential to provide ancillary services to the grid is often harnessed, leading to a major change in hydropower plants operations. Ancillary services ...

2018

Use of compact Laser Doppler Velocimetry in reduced scale model testing of hydraulic machines

François Avellan, Vincent Berruex, Andres Müller, Loïc Andolfatto, Masashi Sakamoto

Laser based flow survey methods such as Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) or Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) have long been used for studying the flow in hydraulic machines. Even if the results have crucially improved our understanding of potentially destab ...

2018

Toward design optimization of a Pelton turbine runner

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Loïc Andolfatto, Christophe Tournier

The objective of the present paper is to propose a strategy to optimize the performance of a Pelton runner based on a parametric model of the bucket geometry, massive particle based numerical simulations and advanced optimization strategies to reduce the d ...

Springer Verlag2017

On the sloshing free surface in the draft tube cone of a Francis turbine operating in synchronous condenser mode

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto

Hydropower plants may be required to operate in synchronous condenser mode in order to supply reactive power to the grid for compensating the fluctuations introduced by the intermittent renewable energies such wind and solar. When operating in this mode, t ...

2017

Comprehensive power loss modelling to improve the performance of an Energy Recovery Station for water utility networks

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Daniel Biner

The work presented in this paper details the methodology applied to inventory and estimate the power losses in a micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners. The separation between the impact of design parameters and operational parameters on each identifi ...

Pennwell2017

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

Evaluation of the shape deviation of non rigid parts from optical measurements

Loïc Andolfatto

This paper deals with an approach to identify geometrical deviations of flexible parts from optical measurements. Each step of the approach defines a specific issue which we try to respond to. The problem of measurement uncertainties is solved using an ori ...

Springer Verlag2017

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

Automated hill chart modeling procedure to estimate the performance of double regulated units

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto, Henri-Pascal Mombelli

The work presented in this paper details an original procedure developed in order to automatically build on-cam surfaces for double-regulated hydropower units such as Kaplan or bulb turbines. The proposed method allows a sparse exploration of the operating ...

2016

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International Association For Hydraulic Research2016