Graduation of Jan Willem Lambach
28 January 2021 11:00 till 13:00 - Location: MS Teams - By: Webredactie | Add to my calendar
River Meuse: Utilizing Hydropower- and Energy Storage Potential
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Professor of graduation: Dr. ir. J.D. Bricker
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Supervisors of graduation: Dr. ir. M. Marence (IHE Delft), dr. A.J. Laguna (OE, TU Delft), dr. ing. M.Z. Voorendt (daily, supervisor, TU Delft)
The Meuse river has been made navigable for ships by the construction of a cascade of seven weirs. At only two weirs hydropower facilities exist. This implies the full hydropower potential of the Meuse is not utilized. Rijkswaterstaat only provides additional permits when fish friendly turbines are used.
The objective of this report is to study if the full hydropower- and energy storage potential of the Meuse cascade can be utilized by the use of pump-turbines within Dutch environmental regulations. In order to meet the objective a conceptual design for a pumped-storage power plant has been compiled.
By using this design, an assessment of utilizing the full hydropower- and energy storage potential in the Meuse cascade has been performed. For the assessment a numerical model has been constructed and applied.