Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation

Tip leakage vortex cavitation in axial hydro-turbines may cause erosion, noise and vibration. Damage due to cavitation can be found at the tip of the runner blades on the low pressure side and the discharge ring. In some cases, the erosion follows an oscillatory pattern that is related to the number...

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Autores principales: Rivetti, Arturo, Angulo, Mauricio Abel, Lucino, Cecilia Verónica, Liscia, Sergio Oscar
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/86167
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language Inglés
topic Ingeniería Hidráulica
Cavitation
Erosion
Hydraulic turbines
Leakage
spellingShingle Ingeniería Hidráulica
Cavitation
Erosion
Hydraulic turbines
Leakage
Rivetti, Arturo
Angulo, Mauricio Abel
Lucino, Cecilia Verónica
Liscia, Sergio Oscar
Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
topic_facet Ingeniería Hidráulica
Cavitation
Erosion
Hydraulic turbines
Leakage
description Tip leakage vortex cavitation in axial hydro-turbines may cause erosion, noise and vibration. Damage due to cavitation can be found at the tip of the runner blades on the low pressure side and the discharge ring. In some cases, the erosion follows an oscillatory pattern that is related to the number of guide vanes. That might suggest that a relationship exists between the flow through the guide vanes and the tip vortex cavitating core that induces this kind of erosion. On the other hand, it is known that air injection has a beneficial effect on reducing the damage by cavitation. In this paper, a methodology to identify the interaction between guide vanes and tip vortex cavitation is presented and the effect of air injection in reducing this particular kind of erosion was studied over a range of operating conditions on a Kaplan scale model. It was found that air injection, at the expense of slightly reducing the efficiency of the turbine, mitigates the erosive potential of tip leakage cavitation, attenuates the interaction between the flow through the guide vanes and the tip vortex and decreases the level of vibration of the structural components.
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Articulo
author Rivetti, Arturo
Angulo, Mauricio Abel
Lucino, Cecilia Verónica
Liscia, Sergio Oscar
author_facet Rivetti, Arturo
Angulo, Mauricio Abel
Lucino, Cecilia Verónica
Liscia, Sergio Oscar
author_sort Rivetti, Arturo
title Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
title_short Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
title_full Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
title_fullStr Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
title_full_unstemmed Pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
title_sort pressurized air injection in an axial hydro-turbine model for the mitigation of tip leakage cavitation
publishDate 2015
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/86167
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