Design and evaluation of turbines for use in OWC power plants
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pilidis, Pericles | |
| dc.contributor.author | Herring, S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-11T15:30:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-07-11T15:30:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The thesis describes the work carried in developing a process for designing an impulse turbine for use in an Oscillating Water Column power plant, and the design, commissioning, and use of a unique laboratory-based test facility for evaluating such turbines. The test facility is unique both in enabling a wide range of oscillatory flow conditions to be simulated, and in being of a sufficiently large scale to give confidence in the performance results obtained. The use of the test facility to gather performance data for a datum turbine configuration is described and results presented which show good agreement between the predicted and measured performance. In addition to this, the development of a novel turbine configuration which is expected to lead to a step-change in the performance of such devices, and a proof-of-concept turbine configuration which is to be tested in the facility are described. The work has led to a number of conclusions and recommendations for further improvements to both the turbine design and the test facility. | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5666 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_UK |
| dc.publisher | Cranfield University | en_UK |
| dc.rights | © Cranfield University 2007. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright owner. | en_UK |
| dc.title | Design and evaluation of turbines for use in OWC power plants | en_UK |
| dc.type | Thesis or dissertation | en_UK |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_UK |
| dc.type.qualificationname | PhD | en_UK |