Publications de Anton Schleiss

How to estimate the weight of hydropower electro-mechanical equipment? Available evidence, novel equations and challenges for engineering applications

In the hydropower sector, the weight of electro-mechanical equipment is an important input data. During the design stage, it allows to estimate material cost, to perform Life Cycle Assessments and to consider adequate load factors on the supporting structu ...

2023

Economic and commercial analysis of reusing dam reservoir sediments

Anton Schleiss

Improper use of chemical fertilizers has led to land degradation. Organic crops, which are farmed using organic fertilizers to reduce the negative environmental effects, are considered an alternative solution to develop the ecosystem health and improve the ...

2023

The need for a unified European hydropower voice

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández

The new EU proect ETIP Hydropower (September 2022 - August 2025) will closely link the EERA Joint Programme Hydropower to the new European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP) for hydropower. It succeeds the HYDROPOWER EUROPE project (2018-2022) which ...

2023

The effects of a spur dike location in a 90° sharp channel bend on flow field: Focus on anisotropy degree and anisotropy nature

Anton Schleiss

In this research, the flow features around a spur dike located in a 90˚ sharp channel bend have been studied experimentally in detail. Results showed that the effects of the spur dike on upstream sections increased by increasing α (spur dike location from ...

2023

Advances in Spillway Hydraulics: From Theory to Practice

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos

Over the past decades, significant advances have been achieved in hydraulic structures for dams, namely in water release structures such as spillway weirs, chutes, and energy dissipators. This editorial presents a brief overview of the eleven papers in thi ...

2023

The energy crisis in Europa reveals the importance of reliable hydropower as a catalyst and enabler for the clean and safe energy transition

Anton Schleiss

Hydropower has a long tradition in Europe, contributing significantly during the first half of the last century to the welfare and industrial development of most countries across the continent. Today, reaching nearly 650 TWh of annual generation in an aver ...

2023

Importance of hydropower reservoirs and dams in Europe to mitigate the energy crisis and to serve as a catalyst and enabler for the Green Deal

Anton Schleiss

Hydropower has a long tradition in Europe and contributed significantly during the last century to industrial development and welfare in most of the countries in Europe. The ambitious plan for an energy transition in Europe now seeks to achieve a lowcarbon ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

Understanding the cost of soil erosion: An assessment of the sediment removal costs from the reservoirs of the European Union

Anton Schleiss

Soil erosion is both a major driver and consequence of land degradation with significant on-site and off-site costs which are critical to understand and quantify. One major cost of soil erosion originates from the sediments delivered to aquatic systems (e. ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Swiss dams: Overview of historical development

Anton Schleiss

With more than 220 large dams in operation, compared to its surface of some 41ʹ000 km2, Switzerland has a very large fleet. They were erected to meet various economic and protection needs. Their main assignments concern the storage of water for later use, ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

Le développement des barrages en Suisse

Anton Schleiss

Avec environ plus de 220 grands barrages en exploitation, la Suisse par rapport à une surface du pays de 41 000 km2 possède un parc très important. Ils ont été érigés pour répondre à divers besoins économiques et de protection. Leurs principales affectatio ...

2023

Synthesis of the HydroES 2021 symposium: hydroelectricity, a catalyst for the energy transition in Europe

Anton Schleiss

Hydropower and Environmental Sustainability (HydroES-2021) s’inscrit dans un cycle de conférences organisées par la SHF depuis une dizaine d’année avec de nombreux partenaires Français et Européens. Sa 7éme édition consacrée à « L’hydroélectricité, un cata ...

2022

Bottom-Pressure Development Due to an Abrupt Slope Reduction at Stepped Spillways

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Mohammad Javad Ostad Mirza

Fluctuating bottom-pressures on stepped chutes are relevant for the spillway design. An abrupt slope reduction causes a local alteration of the bottom-pressure development. Little information is available regarding the air–water flow properties near an abr ...

2022

Experimental investigations on plunge pool protection measures for Ilarion Dam in Greece

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Azin Amini, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol

Ilarion Dam is a 130 m high earthfill dam at Aliakmon River in northern Greece. The dam was commissioned in 2010. It has two spillway tunnels with ski jumps at the outlets. The two spillways are designed to release a total discharge of 5'500 m3/s during th ...

2022

Performance and Design of a Stepped Spillway Aerator

Anton Schleiss, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier, Michael Pfister

Stepped spillways are frequently limited to specific discharges under around 30 m2/s due to concerns about potential cavitation damages. A small air concentration can prevent such damages and the design of bottom aerators is well established for smooth chu ...

2022

Lessons learnt from the saddle dam D failure of XE-PIAN XE-NAMNOY project in LAOS PDR

Anton Schleiss

2022

How a sustainable and common voice can promote hydropower development in Europe through collaborative research and strategic actions

Anton Schleiss

2022

Plunge pool scour and bank erosion: assessment of protection measures for Ilarion dam by physical and numerical modelling

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Azin Amini, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol, Christian Mörtl

The 130 m high Ilarion Dam is built on the Aliakmon River in northern Greece. Its two spillways are equipped with ski jumps to deflect high-velocity jets towards the centre of the plunge pool. Significant scouring occurred in the pool during two major floo ...

2022

Hydropower, a catalyst for energy transition in Europe

Anton Schleiss

The HydroES 2021 Conference (on the first day of the Société Hydrotechnique de France [SHF] meetings, 22 September 2021) was an opportunity for the HYDROPOWER EUROPE Forum to present its vision and the results achieved for the development of hydropower in ...

2022

Hydropower as a catalyst for the energy transition within the European Green Deal: Part I: Urgency of Green Deal and role of Hydropower

Anton Schleiss

The European Union has the ambition to be the first carbonneutral continent by 2050. To fulfil this objective and integrate into the grid the large amount of power from solar and wind, Europe can rely upon the high storage and flexible capacity of hydropow ...

2022

Research themes and strategic actions to promote hydropower as a catalyst for the energy transition in Europe

Anton Schleiss

Within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 project, the Hydropower Europe Forum has prepared a Research and Innovation Agenda and a Strategic Industry Roadmap for the hydropower sector. These two outcomes are presented in this paper, including the main re ...

2022