Abstract
Reversible pump-turbine units of pumped storage power stations can generate power in turbine mode and store electric energy in pump mode for load balancing of the electric power grid. During the start-up transient process in pump mode of a reversible pump-turbine, the flow pattern and the pressure distribution in the flow channel change dramatically with the increasing opening angle of guide vanes. The unsteady pressure of the flow passing channel can cause severe vibration on the head-cover, bottom ring, and other stationary structures around the impeller. In this paper, a coupled 1D/3D co-simulation approach is developed to investigate the pressure distribution characteristics of the flow field during the start-up transient process in pump mode for a large prototype reversible pump-turbine unit. The entire model of flow channel from spiral casing to draft tube is constructed and the flow characteristics of key fluid fields such as spiral casing, stay vanes, guide vanes, impeller, and draft tube are analyzed. The simulation results show that under the condition of minimum guide vane opening the flow is insufficient and vortices occur on the impeller blades. The pressure distribution results of the flow channel from 3D fluid dynamic analysis during the start-up transient process in pump mode are exported as boundary conditions for the subsequent fluid-structure coupling analysis of the head-cover vibration investigation.
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