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Department of Energy and
Process Engineering
Spring 2017
Planning, Start-Up and
Testing on a PipeFlow
Loop for the Investi-
gation of Transient
Characteristics
Supervisor:
Bjørnar Svingen (NTNU)
Co-supervisor:
Morten Kjeldsen (FDB)
Eirik Myrvold Hansen
MASTER THESIS
Background and objective
A good understanding of transient flows in pipes
and ducts is essential to ensure safe operation
of hydropower plants. Forced transients can be
used actively to improve this understanding by
means of frequency response measurements.
Experiments involving such transients will be
done by Flow Design Bureau AS in a closed flow
loop. The purpose of this master thesis is to
assist them in their work, considering design,
modelling and analysis related aspects.
System sketch showing the closed flow loop in
which the experiments will be performed
Flowmaster network used for simulations of
transients in the flow loop.
Photograph from the test site showing the scale
of the flow loop
Suggested mechanism for forcing the transients
in the system