Efforts to Reduce Mortality to Hydroelectric Turbine-Passed Fish: Locating and Quantifying Damaging Shear Stresses |
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Authors: | Glenn ?ada James Loar Laura Garrison Richard Fisher Jr Duane Neitzel |
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Institution: | (1) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6036, USA;(2) York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania 17405, USA;(3) Voith-Siemens Hydro Power Generation, Inc., York, Pennsylvania 17404, USA;(4) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA |
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Abstract: | Severe fluid forces are believed to be a source of injury and mortality to fish that pass through hydroelectric turbines.
A process is described by which laboratory bioassays, computational fluid dynamics models, and field studies can be integrated
to evaluate the significance of fluid shear stresses that occur in a turbine. Areas containing potentially lethal shear stresses
were identified near the stay vanes and wicket gates, runner, and in the draft tube of a large Kaplan turbine. However, under
typical operating conditions, computational models estimated that these dangerous areas comprise less than 2% of the flow
path through the modeled turbine. The predicted volumes of the damaging shear stress zones did not correlate well with observed
fish mortality at a field installation of this turbine, which ranged from less than 1% to nearly 12%. Possible reasons for
the poor correlation are discussed. Computational modeling is necessary to develop an understanding of the role of particular
fish injury mechanisms, to compare their effects with those of other sources of injury, and to minimize the trial and error
previously needed to mitigate those effects. The process we describe is being used to modify the design of hydroelectric
turbines to improve fish passage survival. |
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Keywords: | Hydroelectric turbine Fish Fluid Stresses Mortality |
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