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The 32nd Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems will be held in Roorkee, India, during September 11-14, 2024. Submit your abstract by 10 February!

Hydropower is a reliable, versatile, and low-cost source of clean electricity generation and responsible water management. Hydropower plants are helping to accelerate the clean energy transition, providing essential power, storage, flexibility, and climate mitigation services. Hydropower is also a key asset for building secure, clean electricity systems and reaching global net-zero targets. Hydraulic machinery is an essential component of a hydropower plant to generate electricity. It is always vital to share current knowledge on research and development, including numerical analysis, design, operation, and monitoring of hydraulic machinery and systems. Research and development from academia and industry have constantly been improving the hydraulic turbine and components design.

The congress offers an opportunity for academic researchers and industrial experts from all over the world to share recent advances in theoretical, experimental, and computational research as well as the challenges faced by the industry.

Themes

Intake systems
This section covers the research topics related to the intake systems of a hydropower plant, including diversion structure, intake gate, trash rack, desilting structure, water conductor system, main inlet valve, surge tank, fatigue loading in penstock, hydraulic transient, etc.

Hydraulic turbines
This section covers all the components of hydraulic turbines such as spiral casing, stay vane, guide vane, runner, labyrinth seals, and draft tube. The potential areas of interest are design and optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, unsteady flow phenomena, performance prediction and enhancement, erosion and cavitation flow, etc.

Pump turbines
This section covers all topics related to a centrifugal pump, pump as turbines, reversible pump turbines, including its design, optimization, performance, cavitation, vibration, phenomena in pumping and turbine mode, etc.

Hydropower
This section covers topics related to sustainable development and challenges in the hydropower projects, including small hydropower, mini and micro-hydro, decentralized development, load flexibility, environmentally friendly turbine design, innovations in sustainable hydro, and energy-efficient application, etc.

Multiphase flow
This section covers topics related to two or more phases of flow study in the hydraulic machinery, including cavitation, erosion, aeration, synergic effect, etc.

Vortex breakdown
This section covers topics related to vortex breakdown in hydraulic machinery, including trailing edge vortex, leading-edge vortex, inter blade vortex, draft tube, etc.

Recent measurement techniques
This section covers topics related to recent measurement techniques used in hydropower plants, including measuring efficiency, pressure, velocity, strain, and vibration. The section also focuses on the measurement techniques of suspended sediment and hydro abrasive erosion in the hydraulic machinery.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
This section covers topics related to numerical techniques used in hydraulic machinery. The potential area of interest is high-quality CFD simulations, development of numerical models, turbulence modeling, detached eddy simulations, large-eddy simulations, direct numerical simulations, etc.

Fluid-structure interaction and fatigue loading
This section covers experimental or numerical analysis topics, including fluid-solid interaction, vibration, resonance, damping, stress-strain measurement, crack development, estimating fatigue lifetime, finite element method, etc.

Ocean hydro machinery
This section covers wave energy, tidal energy, and marine current energy topics. It focuses on the ocean hydro types of machinery mainly used to convert the ocean hydropower into mechanical energy to generate electricity finally.

Energy storage and flexibility
This section covers topics related to hydropower energy storage, market, scheduling, energy management, transient operations such as load variation, start-stop, load rejection, no-load, runaway. Energy generation and management with multiple turbines, load sharing, ancillary services, load ramping are potential areas of interest.

General topics
This section invites the topics which are not covered in the above sections and are explicitly in the context of hydropower and hydraulic machinery e.g., recent manufacturing techniques for hydraulic turbines, refurbishment, life assessment, turbine testing, calibration method, prototyping, scaling, turbine blade material and metallurgy, data acquisition and data processing.

Key dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 10 February 
  

• Acceptance notification of abstract: 28 February

• Full lenght paper submission: 30 April

• Acceptance notification for oral presentation: 31 May

• Revised full lenght paper submission: 20 June

• Acceptance notification for revised paper: 10 July

• Registration opening: 1 June

• Congress: 11-14 September 2024