Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model

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Abstract

This software package includes hydro governor and turbine models developed in Simulink (Mathworks Inc.) and RSCAD (RTDS Technologies) for low-head bulb-style Kaplan turbine hydropower plants. The model developed in Simulink has been designed and tuned to match the governor-turbine response for a real-world hydropower unit owned by Idaho Falls Power (IFP). The Simulink and RSCAD models enable real-time testing in a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation using OPAL-RT and RTDS digital real-time simulators, respectively. An automatic initialization for dynamic simulation has also been integrated to each model in both Simulink and RSCAD. The RSCAD initialization involves a novel python-based interfacing for automatic modification of the initial conditions in the model. The parameters of these models can be tuned to match other hydropower plants in this class.
Developers:
Alam, SM [1] Banerjee, Abhishek Mosier, Thomas [1] Undrill, John Roberts, Matthew
  1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Release Date:
2021-10-05
Project Type:
Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
Software Type:
Scientific
Programming Languages:
MATLAB
Python
Simulink
Licenses:
GNU General Public License v2.0
Sponsoring Org.:
Code ID:
65906
Research Org.:
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Country of Origin:
United States
Keywords:
Hydro Governor; H6E; Kaplan turbine; Run-of-River Hydropower; bulb turbine

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Citation Formats

Alam, SM S., Banerjee, Abhishek, Mosier, Thomas M., Undrill, John =., and Roberts, Matthew J. Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model. Computer Software. https://github.com/IdahoLabResearch/Hydropower_Unit_Models. USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). 05 Oct. 2021. Web. doi:10.11578/dc.20211020.1.
Alam, SM S., Banerjee, Abhishek, Mosier, Thomas M., Undrill, John =., & Roberts, Matthew J. (2021, October 05). Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model. [Computer software]. https://github.com/IdahoLabResearch/Hydropower_Unit_Models. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211020.1.
Alam, SM S., Banerjee, Abhishek, Mosier, Thomas M., Undrill, John =., and Roberts, Matthew J. "Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model." Computer software. October 05, 2021. https://github.com/IdahoLabResearch/Hydropower_Unit_Models. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211020.1.
@misc{ doecode_65906,
title = {Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model},
author = {Alam, SM S. and Banerjee, Abhishek and Mosier, Thomas M. and Undrill, John =. and Roberts, Matthew J.},
abstractNote = {This software package includes hydro governor and turbine models developed in Simulink (Mathworks Inc.) and RSCAD (RTDS Technologies) for low-head bulb-style Kaplan turbine hydropower plants. The model developed in Simulink has been designed and tuned to match the governor-turbine response for a real-world hydropower unit owned by Idaho Falls Power (IFP). The Simulink and RSCAD models enable real-time testing in a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation using OPAL-RT and RTDS digital real-time simulators, respectively. An automatic initialization for dynamic simulation has also been integrated to each model in both Simulink and RSCAD. The RSCAD initialization involves a novel python-based interfacing for automatic modification of the initial conditions in the model. The parameters of these models can be tuned to match other hydropower plants in this class.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20211020.1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211020.1},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211020.1}},
year = {2021},
month = {oct}
}