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Department of Energy and
Process Engineering
Spring 2017
Development of a
Francis Turbine Test
Rig at Kathmandu
University
Supervisor:
Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug
Andreas Kjerschow
Background
Hydropower plants have been in operation in
Nepal since 1911, but most of the knowledge
and procedures of building have been imported
from foreign countries. That way, a large share
of job and revenue opportunities disappear
from Nepal. This is why Kathmandu University
established a research department and
commissioned the Turbine Testing Laboratory
in 2011. The laboratory is already in use for
research, but still lack a lot of crucial equipment
to perform certified model tests in accordance
with IEC 60193.
The purpose of this master thesis is to further
develop the Turbine Testing Laboratory in Nepal,
by proposing suitable measurement sensors,
and by producing a full scale logging program
for efficiency measurements of Francis model
turbines. This will be programmed in LabVIEW.
MASTER THESIS
This picture shows an example of a
hill diagram. The data was logged with
LabVIEW and processed in MATLAB
This picture shows the Turbine Testing
Laboratory at Kathmandu University
This picture shows the Turbine Testing Laboratory with
the upper and the lower reservoir