Conclusions about the head pond and surge tank areas are drawn from the stability analysis.
José Ignacio Sarasúa, Paz Elías, Guillermo Martínez-Lucas, Juan Ignacio Pérez-Díaz,José Román Wilhelmi, José Ángel Sánchez 2014, 'Stability Analysis of a Run-of-River Diversion Hydropower Plant with Surge Tank andSpillway in the Head Pond', The Scientific World Journalhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/874060. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this paper, the surge tank utilization method was used to prevent the water hammer.
Miqdam Tariq Chaichan, Dina Saadi Muneam Al-Zubaidi 2017, 'Control of Hydraulic Transients in the Water Piping System in Badra – Pumping StationNo. 5', مجلة النهرين للعلوم الهندسيةhttps://nahje.com/index.php/main/article/view/181. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Moreover, using a simple surge tank reduces the unfavorable effects of transients by reducing pressure fluctuations.
Itissam ABUIZIAH, A. OULHAJ, K. SEBARI, A. ABASSI SABER, D. OUAZAR, N SHAKAMEH 2014, 'Modeling and Controlling Flow Transient in Pipeline Systems: Applied for Reservoirand Pump Systems Combined with Simple Surge Tank', Revue Marocaine des Sciences Agronomiques et Vétérinaireshttp://agrimaroc.org/index.php/Actes_IAVH2/article/view/317/266. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this paper, we focus on the stability of the hydropower plant with sharing tailrace surge tank.
Junying Han, Diyi Chen, Hao Zhang 2018, 'Stability of multi-hydro-turbine governing time-delay systems with sharing tailracesurge tank', Journal of Vibroengineeringhttps://www.jvejournals.com/article/19299. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
An asymmetric orifice can be added to a surge tank of a hydro power plant to dampen the mass oscillation.
Roman Gabl, Maurizio Righetti 2018, 'Design criteria for a type of asymmetric orifice in a surge tank using CFD', Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2018.1443837. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The computational domain covered the entire flow system, including reservoirs, diversion tunnel, surge tank, pump-turbine unit, and tailrace tunnel.
Daqing Zhou, Huixiang Chen, Languo Zhang 2018, 'Investigation of Pumped Storage Hydropower Power-Off Transient Process Using 3D NumericalSimulation Based on SP-VOF Hybrid Model', Energieshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/4/1020. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)