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The next symposium will be held in Foz de Iguazu, Brasil during September 2026.

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CONTENTS

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Contact us

Chirag Trivedi

Head of organizing committee and Editor-in-chief

Email e-mail : iahr2022@ntnu.no

Visiting address placard : VannkraftlaboratorietAlfred Getz vei 4, 7034 Trondheim, Norway.


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About symposium

Hydropower plays an essential role in the modern energy market. It is also going to play critical role in the futuristic market, including the smart grid. Hydropower is one of leading sources of energy used to meet the primary, secondary and territory ancillary services to balance the energy demand. Hydraulic turbine is essential component of a hydro power plant to generate electricity. The turbine includes several components, including rotating and stationary, and the flow field is extremely complex. Over the century turbine and the components designs are constantly improved by dedicated research and development teams across academia and industries through strong collaboration. Hence, the turbines can deliver the best possible performance and services.

Researchers and scientist often come across different challenges, which are related to turbine operation, maintenance and the corresponding flow field. The challenges are unique to the power plant, which require customized approach. The challenges are addressed using different techniques, including laboratory research, field experiments, computational code (one-dimensional) and three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic, multi-physics approach, fluid structure interaction and most recently artificial intelligence and digital twin.

The 31st symposium on hydraulic machinery and systems, widely known as IAHR symposium, provides unique opportunity to the academic and industrial research teams to exchange the stat-of-the-art knowledge and ideas that will help to develop the next-generation of hydropower technology.

Important dates

  • Abstract submission deadline:

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  •  01 November 2021, 23:59 hrs.
  • Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstract:

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  •  01 December 2021, 23:59 hrs.
  • The first submission of manuscript deadline: 15 February 2022

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  •  28 February 2022, 23:59 hrs.
  • The first notification on the manuscript: 15 March 2022

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  •  30 March 2022, 23:59 hrs.
  • Revised manuscript submission deadline: 01 April 2022

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  •  15 April 2022, 23:59 hrs.
  • The revised notification on the manuscript: 15 April 2022

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  •  30 April 2022, 23:59 hrs.
  • The final submission deadline: 30 April 2022

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  •  15 May 2022, 23:59 hrs.
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Post symposium summary

Background

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Hydropower and hydraulic machinery play essential role to reduce carbon footprint and provide green energy for the industrial and domestic use. Hydropower also helps to enhance the robustness of the power grid through energy storage and flexibility, which allows high penetration of wind and solar power. The main emphases are to stimulate the innovation-based research, to understand the technologies associated with hydraulic machinery, and to promote the interaction between the turbomachinery designers, users, the academic community, and the society at large. Scope of the symposium is hydro-mechanical equipment, including turbines, pump-turbines, pumps used as turbines, smart grid, digital twin, turbine intake system, and other hydro mechanical equipment.

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Organization and outcome

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The symposium registration (welcome reception) was opened on 26 June (18:00 hrs) at Kafe To Tårn with beverages in Trondheim. There were around 45 delegates registered. The symposium was formally inaugurated by Stefan Riedelbauch on 27 June in Trondheim, NTNU Gløshaugen campus. The programme was streamed for the virtual participants. Stefan Riedelbauch has presented research related to hydraulic machinery and associated challenges in experimentations and scaling for the prototype machines. Later, Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug welcome the participants as a Chair of the organizing committee and presented historical development of the Waterpower Laboratory. Later, Asgeir Tomasgaard presented the research work related to energy transition in NTNU, and the main activities of FME center, NTRANS. Another presentation on FME center, hydropower, was presented by Liv Randi Hultgreen. Research and development activities under the hydropower center were presented, including the international collaborations with Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

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The second day was started with the keynote speech on industrial research and development of high head turbines by Thorbjørn Hellum-Reppen from Rainpower. The keynote focused on some of the challenges related to manufacturing of the turbines over the period of 50 years and how advancements in manufacturing are made. The keynote speech highlighted that manufacturing and refurbishment of high head turbine runner is complex due to very small blade passages, and not necessarily meet the ideal design idea of drawing board. Another keynote speech was delivered by Andrea Pirocca from 45 Engineering. This keynote was part of Young Professional Network of IAHR and aimed to encourage young researchers with innovative idea, and business opportunity. Later part of the day, parallel sessions were organized for the authors. During evening hours, a tour of the Waterpower Laboratory was scheduled followed by Choir concert at the Nidaros Cathedral and Gala dinner at Britania Hotel. Choir concert at the Nidaros Cathedral was very good based on the feedback from the participants.

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Fifth day aimed for scientific and cultural tours depending on the interest of the participants. The scientific tour was planned to visit Nea Hydropower plant in Tydal, which is around two hours from Trondheim. The cultural tour was planned to visit Røros (UNESCO world heritage site), which is around two hours and thirty minutes travel time from Trondheim. Large part of the participants preferred to join the scientific tour. Overall, both tours were informative and enjoyable for the participants.

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Finally, the organizing committee of the 31st Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems is sincerely thankful to all participants for their contribution and participation to the symposium. The organizing committee hope the scientific work presented by the authors is useful to advance the research work. The organizing committee understand, travelling requires huge effort, time, finance, and meticulous planning, including backup plan. Without your presence, the symposium could have not been this much successful. It is our collective effort and contribution, and the organizing committee congratulates all. Once again, the organizing committee would like to extend my sincere thanks for the physical participation and travelling to Norway.


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