Post-Graduate Course

Program

Hydraulic turbomachines:

• Fundamentals;
• Hydrodynamics – Similitude – Cavitation.

Hydraulic turbomachinery engineering:

• Francis turbine runner;
• Pelton turbines;
• Centrifugal pumps.

Hydraulic turbomachines flow numerical simulations:

• Current and future tools;
• Industrial practice.

Model and Field Testing

• Reduced scale physical model instrumentation;
• Acceptance tests and specific tests;
• Hydroelectric power plant visit.

Operation Challenges

• Electricity market;
• Power system stability;
• Pumped storage power plants.

Participants

• industrial engineers and researchers interested in specializing or improving turbo-machinery
• technical universities academic staff
• graduate students in engineering

Speakers

• This intensive course is led by : Professor F. AVELLAN, Ph. D. in Engineering Chair of Hydraulic Machines Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and associated engineers and/or researchers from : ANDRITZ HYDRO, EDF, GE HYDRO, INESC TEC PORTO, POWER VISION ENGINEERING, SULZER PUMPS, VOITH HYDRO, EPFL-PTMH …

Application Conditions

Short course:

• Duration: 40 hours, 16 lecture modules, 1 site visit, 5 days;
• Prerequisite: Degree in engineering or professional engineering experience in industry;
• Language: English
• Certificate of attendance: at the end of the Short Course.

The course session will be held week 36 if a minimum of 12 attendees are registered.

Registration (registration form) 

• Online at https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/hydraulic-machines-platform/ptmh/education/ – see Post-Graduate course.
• By completing the attached form to be addressed to EPFL-PTMH attention to
  Nadia Kaiser, Avenue de Cour 33 Bis, 1007 Lausanne/Switzerland,
  E-mail: [email protected]pfl.ch, Tel.: +41 21 693 54 56

Fees (VAT 7.7% not included)

• CHF 3’500.00* (per person, including technical documentation, technical visit, lunch and coffee break).
• CHF 3’000.00* for the second attendee of the same company or institute;
• *Cancellation fees: 10% of the amount will be charged.
• Payment in advance by bank or postal transfer in Swiss Franc (CHF) to
  Swiss Post, Postfinance SA, Mingerstrasse 20, 3030 Bern-Switzerland
  Swift/Bic POFICHBEXXX, Account no: 17-714571-6, IBAN for Swiss Francs: CH2709000000177145716
  Reference: CC 0332 – Funds 111564 + invoice no. to be mentioned
• to be transferred before August 10.