Newsletter 5 - FranSed - Hydrocen
Francis Turbines for Sediment Laden Waters
Quarterly Newsletter - 5
Issue 5 I Date : 24.02.2020
“PhD journey from Nepal to Norway”- Nirmal Acharya, PhD candidate,Waterpower Laboratory, NTNU
Nirmal Acharya is a PhD candidate at NTNU, from Nepal, working under a Hydrocen project: FranSed (Francis Turbine for Sediment Laden Waters). He joined team FranSed from October 2018. With Mechanical Engineering as his background, he has master’s degree in Hydropower Engineering from South Korea.
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"PhD journey from Nepal to Norway"
Workshop on Current energy trend, future prospects and possible scenarios in the context of Nepal
The first workshop of FranSed was held on 28 November 2019 in Nepal together with a "Workshop on Current energy trends, future prospects and possible scenarios in the context of Nepal". This workshop proved to be quite successful due to presence of representatives from all three partner universities. A team from NTNU led by Professor Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug (Principal Investigator of the project), a team from IIT Roorkee led by Mr Shubham Sharma (PhD candidate) and Dr. Sailesh Chitrakar (Project Coordinator) along with representatives from Kathmandu University graced the workshop with their participation and presentations.
There were other key speakers from different sectors of Nepal apart from the FranSed representatives.
Mr Hitendra Dev Shakya, Managing Director of NEA Engineering Company Ltd. giving presentation on "Reserve Capacity price as a component in the evolving Nepalese electricity market within Regional market: Feasibility and Impact"
Second workshop of FranSed project. Happening soon!!!
CRHT X will be held on 31st March, 2020. The second workshop of FranSed will be conducted on 1st April, 2020. The Turbine Testing Lab at Kathmandu University has been organizing an International Symposium on "Current Research in Hydropower Technologies (CRHT)" every year since 2010. The main objective of this symposium is to provide a platform to share research experiences on hydropower sector which also helps in building network among researchers, students and industrialists. The symposium is going to be more special this year as TTL will be celebrating 10 years of conducting CRHT.
Contents
1. "PhD journey from Nepal to Norway" - Nirmal Acharya, PhD candidate, Waterpower Laboratory, NTNU
2. Workshop on Current energy trend, future prospects and possible scenarios in the context of Nepal
3. Presentation by Mr Shubham Sharma from IIT Roorkee at the FranSed Project workshop
4. Paper published in Wear Journal
5. Completion of PhD proposal defense of Mr Prajwal Sapkota. Congratulations!!!!
6. Second workshop of FranSed Project. Happening soon!!!!
7. "FranSed in the Himalayas "- Shreejana Poudyal
Presentation by Mr Shubham Sharma from IIT Roorkee at the FranSed Project workshop
Mr Shubham Sharma is a PhD candidate from IIT Roorkee, India. He has been contributing in WP 3 of FranSed. He attended the workshop held on 28 November 2019 at Kathmandu University along with two other research scholars from IIT Roorkee, Mr. Firoz Khan (Research scholar for Turbine) and Mr. Naman Arora (Research scholar for Sediment). They visited the University from 23 November to 2 December.
Mr Shubham Sharma presenting about ongoing work of WP 3 of FranSed
Paper published in Wear journal
A paper from FranSed project entitled, "Sediment erosion in low specific speed Francis turbine: A case study on effects and causes" has been published in Wear journal. The main author of the paper is Mr Saroj Gautam, who is working as an MS by Research Student at TTL and the co-authors are Prof. Hari Prasad Neopane, Mr. Nirmal Acharya, Dr. Sailesh Chitrakar, Dr. Biraj Singh Thapa and Prof. Baoshan Zhu from Tsinghua University, where Saroj was an exchange student for six months.
Sediment erosion in low specific speed Francis turbine: A case study on effects and causes
Completion of PhD proposal defense of Mr Prajwol Sapkota. Congratulations!!!!
Mr. Prajwal Sapkota, who was working as a researcher in FranSed project has successfully defended his PhD proposal in the Research Committee of Kathmandu University on 18 December, 2019. His PhD will focus on ‘Condition Monitoring of Hydropower Plants for Sediment Laden Waters’ and will be closely related to the activities of the FranSed project. The main objectives of his work are:
- To investigate, determine and finalize the possible parameters for condition monitoring.
- To develop reference data set and monitoring program that detects the fault on the basis of data set.
- To develop a standard procedure for condition monitoring analysis in the context of sediment laden hydropower plants.
"FranSed in the Himalayas" - Shreejana Poudyal
"The outcome of this project will be highly efficient Francis turbines that can handle high amount of sediment loads. Knowledge and technology transfer among three countries is another important achievement that is expected from this collaboration."
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