Hydropower
Improve the availability and flexibility of your hydropower plants
To ensure profitable and safe hydropower plants, stakeholders need to consider a host of aspects in planning, approval, construction and operation. Compliance with the applicable regulatory acts, manufacturing costs, fitness for service and reliability, servicing and maintenance of technical equipment are only some of the aspects that need to be considered. TÜV SÜD is a third-party expert organisation assisting authorities, power-plant managers and manufacturers by providing long-standing experience, in-depth expertise and a range of useful services.
This way we can help you with your hydropower plants:
- Design optimisation
- Life testing
- Installation specifications
- Functional analyses and design analyses
- Design calculations, stress and fatigue analyses, fracture-mechanics analyses, multi-body simulation, crash analyses
- Commissioning tests, function tests and target / performance comparisons
- Development of maintenance, testing and inspection strategies
- Water hammer (fluid hammer) analysis
- Periodic inspections, on-site inspections
- Monitoring and diagnosis
- Evaluation of the acceptability of findings and defects
- Failure analyses
- Arbitration and expert-witness services
- Technical and business analyses
- International compliance audits
- Reliability analyses of electrical and control systems
- Certification of grid compatibility
- Lightning protection and electromagnetic compatibility, analyses and concepts
- Valuation
Our hydropower calculation programs
- ANSYS and MSC MARC/Nastran – finite element tool for structural analysis
- ANSYS LS-DYNA – crash simulation
- APROS – process simulation/pressure surge calculation
- DIMY – software for the design of pressure equipment
- KISSsoft – design and optimisation of machine elements
- MSC ADAMS – multi-body simulation
- ROHR2 – structural analysis of piping systems
- RSTAB/RFEM – calculation of 2D and 3D beam or shell structures
- SimulationX – simulation of physical and technical systems and plants
- sisKMR – static calculations of underground pipe systems
- STANET – calculation of gas, water, electricity and district-heat networks
- DigSILENT – power system analysis software
- Matlab/ Simulink – simulation of control systems
- PSpice – lightning protection
Improvement of hydropower plants - your benefits:
- Boost the reliability and availability of your equipment.
- Reduce life-cycle costs.
- Achieve legal compliance.
- Build on impartiality and expertise and ease your workload and that of your staff.