Alstom Renewable Technologies

Alstom Hydro France

Ge Renewable Technologies

Farid Mazzouji

Monique Traversaz

Michel Couston

Jacques Bremond

Claude Beral

Gerard Vuillerod

Sylvain Lavigne

Danièle Bazin

Yoann Bomchil

Joel Louis Pierre Marin

Jean Bernard Houdeline

Claire Segoufin

Joel Louis Marin

Michel Henri Couston

Gérard Vuillerod

This fin is intended to be installed in a protruding manner inside a discharge pipe of a hydraulic machine. The fin includes a first face which has holes and a second face which is solid. The fin defines by itself, between the first face and the second face, a cavity connecting the outside of the discharge pipe to the holes in the first face.

Fin and installation for converting hydraulic-energy comprising such a fin

This wheel comprises a plurality of vanes () arranged on a crown () and is equipped with a tip-forming member () attached to a central region () of the crown or hub of the wheel (), radially inside the vanes (), the crown defining a wet surface () for guiding a flow (E) passing between the vanes. The tip-forming member () is provided with at least one opening () for diverting a fraction (E) of the flow towards the internal volume (V) of this member. This member comprises a frustoconical annular skirt () and at least one fin () arranged in its internal volume (V) and able to modify the path of the flow fraction (E) entering this volume through the opening (). This fin () extends as far as the edge () of the skirt () which defines an outlet opening () of the member () for the flow fraction (E).

Francis-type hydraulic turbine wheel equipped with a tip-forming member, and method of reducing fluctuations using such a wheel

The invention relates to a unit comprising a hydraulic turbine (), a duct () leading a forced flow of water to the turbine, a duct () discharging the outgoing flow from the turbine and vanes () for guiding the flow through the discharge duct. Each guide vane () is able to rotate about an axis (x) secant to the wall () of the discharge duct. Means () are provided for controlling the angular position of the vane () about its axis of rotation (x). Each guide vane () can also be retracted into the wall () of the discharge duct (), and means () are provided for adjusting the extent to which they are withdrawn into the wall.

Installation for converting hydraulic energy, and a method of controlling such an installation

The invention relates to a wheel (R) of the Francis type that comprises a ring () with revolution symmetry about the rotation axis (Z) of the wheel (R), and curved blades () connected to the ring () and each having an outer peripheral edge () and an inner central edge (). The connection points (B, B) between the ring () and the inner central edges () of the blades () are located on a same circle (C) centered on the axis (Z). The connection points (A, A) between the ring () and the outer peripheral edges () of the blades () are located on at least two distinct circles (C, C) (D, D) centered on the axis (Z).

Wheel for a hydraulic machine, a hydraulic machine including such a wheel, and an energy conversion installation equipped with such a hydraulic machine

A hydraulic machine through which a main flow of water passes including at least one turbine blade having an upstream end and a downstream end and a channel extending an entire length of the blade for tapping flow from the main flow adjacent the upstream end of the blade and discharging the tapped flow at the downstream end of the blade in a direction of the main flow.

Hydraulic machine including means for injecting a flow drawn from a main flow

The invention relates to a machine through which a main flow (E) of water passes, including a turbine wheel (), with at least a turbulent zone, reduced-pressure zone or cavitation zone () being formed close to said wheel. The wheel includes blades () disposed between a ceiling () and a belt (). The machine also includes means for injecting a flow (E) drawn from the main flow into the aforementioned zone () such as to alter the main flow (E) locally or increase the pressure in said zone (). Said injection means inject the drawn flow (E) from the ceiling () or from the belt () through holes () provided in the ceiling () or belt ().

A Pelton hydraulic machine through which a main flow of water passes including at least one Pelton turbine manifold with at least a turbulent zone or a reduced-pressure zone being formed close to the manifold and wherein a secondary flow drawn from the main flow, and unaltered in relation to the main flow, is injected into the turbulent or reduced-pressure zone so as to alter the main flow locally or increase the pressure in the zone.

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Vourey, France

Farid Mazzouji