Lectures related to Hydraulic Machines: Types and Applications

Hydropower Innovations: Water Turbines and Pump-Turbines

Covers the importance of water turbines and pump-turbines in advancing hydropower technology and sustainability.

Hydraulic Transients of Turbines: Hydroacoustic Modeling

Explores hydraulic turbine modeling, stability, and historical development, emphasizing the selection criteria for Francis turbines.

Hydropower Generation

Explores hydropower generation principles, turbine types, energy extraction methods, and optimization.

Introduction to Turbomachines: Hydropower and Historical Development

Introduces turbomachines, focusing on hydropower systems and their historical development.

Hydropower: Physics, Turbines, and Integration

Explores the physics of hydropower, turbine types, system integration, and future potential.

Turbomachines: Design and Operation

Explores the design and operation of turbomachines, emphasizing compressors and turbines, efficiency calculations, and various applications.

Three-Phase Systems Introduction

Covers three-phase electrical systems, energy generation methods, hydroelectric power plants, turbines, wind energy, and nuclear power plants.

Hydraulic Machines: Transient Phenomena and Hydroacoustic Applications

Explores hydraulic machines under transient conditions and hydroacoustic applications for hydroelectric installations, covering equilibrium chimneys, diaphragm cavitation, and turbine stability.

Wind and Hydro Power

Explores the physics and technology of wind and hydropower, highlighting their efficiency, environmental impact, and energy conversion process.

Model Testing in Turbomachines: Similarity Rules Explained

Discusses similarity rules and model testing for hydraulic turbomachines.

Energy Conservation in Turbomachinery: Key Principles and Applications

Covers energy conservation principles in turbomachinery, focusing on the Bernoulli equation and its applications in real-world scenarios.

Energy Conservation in Open Systems

Explores energy conservation in open systems, analyzing mass and energy transfer in turbines, compressors, and heat exchangers.

Gas Turbines and Combined Cycles

Explores gas turbines, efficiency, and combined cycles, emphasizing optimization for enhanced performance.

Reservoirs and Dams: Hydraulic Construction and Sizing

Explores sizing reservoirs and dams using cumulative flow curves and tank dimensioning for dry and rainy periods.

Hydroacoustic Fundamentals: Equations and Modeling

Explores fundamental equations and modeling in hydroacoustics for hydroelectric installations, focusing on continuity, momentum, and wave propagation speed.

Thermodynamic Cycles: Efficiency and Optimization

Explores thermodynamic cycles, focusing on Rankine cycle efficiency and optimization strategies for mechanical power production.

Vapor Power Systems: Basics and Efficiency

Explores vapor power systems, emphasizing efficiency improvements through superheating and reheating.

Steam Turbine Efficiency & Design

Explores steam turbine efficiency, design parameters, and off-design characteristics, emphasizing the impact of operating conditions and system components.

Thermodynamics: Basics and Power Cycles

Explores thermodynamic basics, power cycles, and renewable energy applications.

Water Hammer in Hydroelectric Installations

Explores water hammer in hydroelectric installations, covering direct and reduced water hammer, wave reflections, and real-life accidents caused by this phenomenon.