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Modelo vazão-velocidade para avaliação de potencial hidrocinético
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-05-25) CRUZ, Josias da Silva; BLANCO, Claudio José Cavalcante; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8319326553139808
The Brazilian hydrological information network provides daily flow data; however, daily velocity information is not available in historical series. The inventory of river velocities is important for many applications, and one of them is the study of hydrokinetic potential, including downstream of hydroelectric plants. Therefore, the work proposes a model called Flow-Velocity that determines the average daily velocity, the geometric form and the distribution of the logarithmic velocity profile of the cross section of rivers from daily flow data. The model was initially applied in a small river basin with flow data and the validation was performed using the mean square error (RMSE), the relative mean square error (RRMSE), the standard deviation of observation (RSR) and the percentage of bias PBIAS. Subsequently, the model was applied to the river basins of the Amazonas, São Francisco and Paraná rivers (Brazil's largest basins), using the highest and lowest flows in the historical series. The highest and lowest average speed found in the Amazon River was 2.27 ms-1 and 0.735 ms-1 in the Óbidos cross-section for a flow of 266 897 m³s-1 and 72 480 m³-1, respectively. The main contributors to the Amazon River, with the exception of the Trombetas, Madeira and Xingu rivers, present average daily speeds below 2 ms-1 for the flood period, but in the dry season the average daily speeds of all are below 0.5 ms-1. The São Francisco river, in the transversal sections studied along its length, presents velocities between 3.09 ms-1 to 1.68 ms-1 for the period of flood and in the period of drought the speeds are between 0,44 ms-1 to 0,12 ms-1. In the Paraná River, velocities are between 2.17 ms-1 to 1.50 ms-1 and 0,59 ms-1 to 0,12 ms-1 for the greater and smaller flow, in due order. It was verified that the Amazon river has hydrokinetic potential that can be explored all year round. In the São Francisco basin, it is only in the period of higher flows that there is potential for the installation of hydrokinetic turbines, similar to the Paraná river basin. Of course, at points in rivers where there are hydroelectric plants, this assessment should change due to the dispatch of power plants.
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Otimização geométrica de pás de turbinas hidrocinéticas cavitantes sob efeito difusor
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-11-22) PICANÇO, Hamilton Pessoa; VAZ, Jerson Rogério Pinheiro; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1623983294183975; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6440-4811; LINS, Erb Ferreira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5272283698536321; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6643-5889
Diffuser technology placed around hydrokinetic rotors may improve the conversion of the fluid’s kinetic energy into shaft power. However, rotor blades are susceptible to the phenomenon of cavitation, which can impact the overall power efficiency. This paper presents the development of a new optimization model applied to hydrokinetic blades shrouded by a diffuser. The proposed geometry optimization takes into account the effect of cavitation inception on the rotor blades surface. The main contribution of this work to the state-of-the-art is the development of an optimization procedure that takes into account the effects of diffuser efficiency, ηd, and thrust, CT d. The model uses the Blade Element Momentum Theory to seek optimized blade geometry in order to minimize or even avoid the occurrence of cavitation. The minimum pressure coefficient is used as a criterion to avoid cavitation inception. Also, a Computational Fluid Dynamics investigation was carried out to validate the model based on the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes formulation, using the κ-ω Shear-Stress Transport turbulence and Rayleigh-Plesset models, to estimate cavitation by means of water vapor production. The methodology is applied to the design of a 10 m diameter hydrokinetic rotor, rated at 250 kW of output power at a flow velocity of 2.5 m/s. An analysis of the proposed model with and without a diffuser is carried out to evaluate the changes in the optimized geometry in terms of chord and twist angle distribution. It is found that the flow around a diffused-augmented hydrokinetic blade doubles the cavitation inception relative to the unshrouded case. Additionally, the proposed optimization model can completely remove the cavitation occurrence, making it a good alternative for the design of diffuser-augmented hydrokinetic blades free of cavitation.