Pierre-Louis Viollet

Société Hydrotechnique de France
welcomes participants to the conference
Enhancing existing Hydropower
plant facilities
La centrale de Calypso dans les Alpes
françaises, 1902
Enhancing Hydropower plants
Société Hydrotechnique de France
French Hydro Society
Born in 1912 following
the 1902 congress of
« la houille blanche »
(il carbone bianco),
initially focussed on
hydropower development
in the Alps
The Calypso plant in the french Alps, 1902
Société Hydrotechnique de France
French Hydro Society
The development of turbines for high head chutes was one of the
major technical problems at that time
The Calypso plant in the french Alps, 1902
Société Hydrotechnique de France
www.shf-hydro.org
SHF is now the reference french-speaking
learning society in the field of hydropower,
water sciences applied to energy, fluvial and
maritime hydraulic structures, hydrotechnologies, and water management (flood
and drought).
SHF is acting at European level.
Our Journal la houille blanche is an exchange
tool between industrial and academic scientists
and engineers on Water sciences, Fluid
Mechanics and Hydrology
Doc. EDF
La centrale de Calypso dans les Alpes
françaises, 1902
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SHF is covering many fields related to water
sciences and fluid dynamics
Glaciology and nivology : the
upstream boundary condition of
water management
La retenue de la Grande Dixence, photo PLV
Hydrology :
- Measurements and modelling
- Resource forecasting
- Risks and extreme flooding events
- Prospective on water resources
La crue de la Seine en 1910
Underground flows
Urban hydraulics
Un réservoir des eaux de ruissellement en
Jordanie, photo PLV
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Fluid Mechanics and hydro-technologies
:
- Microfluidics (chemical and health
industry)
- Multiphase flows (bubble flows in many
processes)
- Hydrodynamics
- Hydraulic machineries and cavitation
under the pressure of more flexible
operation
Univ de Padoue et ENSAM Lille
Fluvial & maritime hydraulics :
-Coupling data-simulation…
-Fluid mechanics and sediment transport
-Scour, erosion and river morphodynamics
(lateral erosions and meandering)
Erosion latérale sur le
Couesnon, photo PLV
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Simulation and Hydroinformatics :
multi-domains, multiphysics and
coupling, data base and networks,
uncertainties…
Simhydro 2010, 2012, 2014
Simulation de cournats de marée, doc EDF
Social sciences related to water :
- History
- Sociology
- Economy
- Training
- Knowledge dissemination, relation with
skateholders, and the public
Coastal and fluvial structures : multiple
constraints (economy, environment…) with
european competition
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Hydropower : the main renewable
source of electricity, and the
cheapest, under
- safety,
- environmental &
- economical constraints
and european competition
2010 : conference on Hydropower and
Environment
2012 : conference on Pumped Storage
Plants
2014 : conference on Enhancing Existing
Hydropower plants
Modele réduit évac de
crue, doc EDF
Passe à poissons « naturelle », doc CNR
France is the second European
country with respect to
hydropower generation
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capacity
There are need and capacities for hydropower
development
• New projects
• Enhancing and repowering existing plants
• Adding Pumped storage capacities to existing
scheme
Delivering renewable energy
Providing services to the grid and power system
(safety, flexibility, in the context of strong
development of intermittent sources)
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The purposes of this conference are to
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Share experience on enhancing projets, including
- Scientific, Technical and technological issues
- Environmental constraints
- Economical sides
- Motivations for enhancing projects
• Both global vision of ongoing and future projects
and specific technological sides (machines) will be
addressed
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Conferences organized this year by SHF
•Glaciology, nivology (March 20-21, Grenoble)
•Management of urban drainage systems (March 1920, Bordeaux)
•Enhancing existing hydropower plant facilities (April
9-10, Grenoble )
•SIMHYDRO 2014 & Applied Modelling of large
hydraulic transients (floods, runup…) (June 11-12-13,
Nice)
•Small scale Morphodynamics, (October 6-7, Nantes)
•4th International conference on microfluidics (Cork)
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Thank you and enjoy the conference
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La Houille Blanche
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www.shf-hydro.org
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