Publications EPFL

2010

Pump-Storage Integration with Renewables, KOUTNIK, J., FOUST, J., NICOLET, C., SAIJU, R., KAWKABANI, B.,  Meeting the Needs Using Various Concepts Proceedings of HydroVision International, 27-30 July 2010, Charlotte, NC, USA, Session: Pumped-Storage Market Trends and Strategies, paper 5, pp. 1-12. Article.pdf [416 Kb]

2009

Benefits of Variable Speed Pumped Storage Units in Mixed Islanded Power Network during Transient Operation, NICOLET, C., PANNATIER, Y., KAWKABANI, B., SCHWERY, A., AVELLAN, F., SIMOND, J.-J. , Proceedings of HYDRO 2009, October 26-28, 2009, in Lyon, France, Paper 23.3 Article.pdf [1’108 Kb]

Experimental Evidence of Hydroacoustic Pressure Waves in a Francis Turbine Elbow Draft Tube for Low Discharge Conditions, ARPE, J., NICOLET, C., AVELLAN, F. , ASME, J. Fluids Eng., Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2009. Copyright © 2008 by ASME-JFE

Stability Study of Francis Pump-Turbine at Runaway, NICOLET, C., ALLIGNÉ, S., KAWKABANI, B., KOUTNIK, J., SIMOND, J.-J., AVELLAN, F. , Proceedings of the 3rd IAHR International Meeting of the WorkGroup on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Brno, Czech Republic, October 14-16, 2009, paper G2, pp. 371-384. Article.pdf [714 Kb]

Numerical Simulation of Non-linear Self-oscillations of a Full Load Vortex Rope, ALLIGNÉ, S., NICOLET, C., RUCHONNET, N., HASMATUCHI, V., MARUZEWSKI, P., AVELLAN, F. , Proceedings of the 3rd IAHR International Meeting of the WorkGroup on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Brno, Czech Republic, October 14-16, 2009, paper F4, pp. 325-338. Article.pdf [1’025 Kb]

Experimental investigation of Cavitation Influence on Hydroacoustic Resonance in Pipe, RUCHONNET, N., NICOLET, C., ALLIGNÉ, S., AVELLAN, F. , Proceedings of the 3rd IAHR International Meeting of the WorkGroup on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Brno, Czech Republic, October 14-16, 2009, paper P1, pp. 501-514. Article.pdf [905 Kb]

2008

Unstable Operation of Francis Pump-Turbine at Runaway: Rigid and Elastic Water Column Oscillation Modes, NICOLET, C., ALLIGNÉ, S., KAWKABANI, B. , SIMOND, J.-J., AVELLAN, F. , Proceedings of the 24th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil, October 27 -31, 2008, paper 150. Article.pdf [608 Kb]

Transient Behavior of Variable Speed Pump-Turbine Units, PANNATIER, Y., NICOLET, C., KAWKABANI, B., DENIAU, J.-L., SCHWERY, A., AVELLAN, F., SIMOND, J.-J. , Proceedings of the 24th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil, October 27 -31, 2008, paper 147. Article.pdf [634 Kb]

Influence of the Vortex Rope Location of a Francis Turbine on the Hydraulic System Stability, ALLIGNÉ, S., NICOLET, C., ALLENBACH, P. , KAWKABANI, B. , SIMOND, J.-J., AVELLAN, F. , Proceedings of the 24th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil, October 27 -31, 2008, paper 82. Article.pdf [1’010 Kb]

Pumped Storage Units to Stabilize Mixed Islanded Power Network: a Transient Analysis, NICOLET, C., VAILLANT, Y., KAWKABANI, B., ALLENBACH, P., SIMOND, J.-J., AVELLAN, F. , Proceedings of HYDRO 2008, October 6-9, 2008, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Paper 16.1. Article.pdf [543 Kb]

Dynamic Behavior of a 2 Variable Speed Pump-Turbine Power Plant, PANNATIER, Y., NICOLET, C., KAWKABANI, B., SIMOND, J.-J., ALLENBACH, P. , Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2008, September 6-9, 2008, Vilamoura, Portugal, Paper ID 754. Article.pdf [555 Kb]

2007

High Order Modeling of Hydraulic Power Plant in Islanded Power Network; Nicolet, C., Greiveldinger, B., Hérou, J.-J., Kawkabani, B., Allenbach, P., Simond, J.-J., Avellan, F., IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 22, Number 4, November 2007, pp.: 1870-1881. Copyright ©2007 by IEEE-PES

Turbine Speed Governor Parameters Validation in Islanded Production; Nicolet, C., Kawkabani, B., Greiveldinger, B., Hérou, J.-J., Allenbach, P., Simond, J.-J., Avellan, F., Proceedings of the 2nd IAHR International Meeting of the WorkGroup on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, October 24-26, 2007. Article.pdf [3’253 Kb]

Modelling And Numerical Simulation Of A Complete Hydroelectric Production Site; Nicolet, C., Allenbach, PH., Simond, J.-J., Avellan, F., Proceedings PowerTech 2007, 1-5 July 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007. Copyright ©2007 by IEEE-PES

Hydroacoustic Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Operation of Hydroelectric Systems; Nicolet, C., PhD Thesis, EPFL n°3751, Lausanne, 2007. Thesis.pdf [23’545 Kb]

2006

Hydroacoustic Modeling of Rotor Stator Interaction in Francis Pump-Turbine; Ruchonnet, N., Nicolet, C., Avellan, F., Proceedings IAHR Int. Meeting of WG on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Barcelona, June 28-30, 2006. Article.pdf [1’695 Kb]

Methodology for Risk Assessment of Part Load Resonance in Francis Turbine Power Plant; Nicolet, C., Herou, J.-J., Greiveldinger, B., Allenbach, P., Simond, J.-J, Avellan, F., Proceedings IAHR Int. Meeting of WG on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Barcelona, June 28-30, 2006. Article.pdf [603 Kb]

Simulation Tool Linking Hydroelectric Production Sites and Electrical Networks; Simond, J.-J.,Allenbach, P., Nicolet, C., Avellan, F., Proceedings of the 27th Int. Conf. on Electrical Machines, ICEM, Chania, Greece, September 2-5, 2006. Article.pdf [301 Kb]

One-Dimensional Modeling of Rotor Stator Interaction in Francis Pump-Turbine; Nicolet, C., Ruchonnet, N. and Avellan, F., Proceedings of the 23rd IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Yokohama, Japan, October 18-21, 2006. Article.pdf [665 Kb]

Overload Surge Event in a Pumped-Storage Power Plant; Koutnik, J., Nicolet, C., Schohl, G. A., Avellan, F., Proceedings of the 23rd IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Yokohama, Japan, October 18-21, 2006. Article.pdf [644 Kb]

On the Hydroelectric Stability of an Islanded Power Network; Ch. Nicolet, B.Greiveldinger, J-J. Hérou, P.Allenbach, J.-J. Simond, F. Avellan, Proceedings IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 18-22 June 2006, Montréal, Canada, paper 623. Copyright ©2006 by IEEE-PES

One-Dimensional Modeling of Rotor Stator Interaction in Francis Pump-Turbine, Ch. Nicolet, N. Ruchonnet, F. AVELLAN, Proceedings of ISROMAC-11, ASME: International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery , Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 26-March 2, 2006, Copyright ©2006 by ASME

2004

Identification and Modeling of Pressure Fluctuations of a Francis Turbine Scale Model at Part Load Operation; Ch. Nicolet, J. Arpe, Fr. Avellan, Proceedings of the 22nd IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, June 29 – July 2, 2004 , Lausanne : EPFL/STI/LMH, 2004 , LMH Code: CODYPU/04.1 Article .pdf, 928 Kbytes

2003

Transient Phenomena in Francis Turbine Power Plants : Interaction with the Power Network. Ch. Nicolet, Fr. Avellan, Ph. Allenbach, A. Sapin, J.-J. Simond, J.-J. Hérou, WG1 of AIRH, Stuttgart, Germany, 8-10 October 2003 , Lausanne : IMHEF/EPFL, 2003

Simulation of Transient Phenomena in Francis Turbine Power Plants : Hydroelectric Interaction; Ch. Nicolet, Fr. Avellan, Ph. Allenbach, A. Sapin, J.-J. Simond, J.-J. Hérou, S. Kvicinsky, M. Crahan, Proceedings of Waterpower XIII, Advancing Technology for Sustainable Energy, Buffalo, N.Y., USA, July 2003.- Projet LMH – SIMSEN , Lausanne, EPFL/LMH, 2003

2002

New Tools for the Simulation of Transient Phenomena in Francis Turbine Power Plants; Ch. Nicolet, Fr. Avellan, Ph. Allenbach, A. Sapin, J.-J. Simond, Proceedings of the 21st IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9-12 September 2002, pp. 519-528.- Projet LMH – SIMSEN , Lausanne : EPFL/STI/LMH, 2002

2001

A new tool for the simulation of dynamic behaviour of hydroelectric power plants. 10th International meeting of the work group on the behaviour of hydraulic machinery under steady oscillatory conditions; Ch. Nicolet, Fr. Avellan, J.-E. Prénat, A. Sapin, J.-J. Simond; Trondheim, Norway, June 26-28 2001.- Projet LMH – SIMSEN , Lausanne : IMHEF/EPFL, 2001

Diploma work

Etude de la stabilité de réglage d’une centrale hydroélectrique en réseau séparé; B. Greiveldinger, Travail pratique de diplôme, rapport. Bibliographie , Lausanne: LMH/EPFL, 2004 LMH Code: LMHDI/04G

Caractérisation des transitoires d’une installation hydroélectrique : application à la centrale de Hauterive Rossens ; P-Y. Ledermann; Travail pratique de diplôme, rapport. Bibliographie.- Projet LMH – SIMSEN , Lausanne: LMH/EPFL, 2003

Intégration d’un modèle de simulation d’installations hydrauliques dans le logiciel “SIMSEN” ; Ch. Nicolet ;Travail pratique de diplôme effectué en collaboration avec le LEME, rapport. Bibliographie.- Projet LMH – SIMSEN , Lausanne: IMHEF/EPFL, 2001

Semester project

Modélisation d’une installation hydroélectrique comprenant une turbine Pelton : B. Greiveldinger ; EPFL, projet de 8ème semestre, rapport + Annexes. Projet LMH – SIMSEN , Lausanne : LMH-EPFL, 2003

2000

Modeling of Multi-Windings Phase Shifting Transformers for DC Supplies, A. Sapin, Ph. Allenbach, J.-J. Simond, ICEM 2000, Helsinki, Finland. Article.pdf

1999

1998

Adjustable speed Asynchronous Machine in Hydro Power Plants and its Advantages for the Electric Grid, Stability, Daniel Schafer, Prof. Jean-Jacques Simond, CIGRE 1998, Paris, France.

1997

Advantages for the electrical grid using a doubly fed asynchronous machine-Numerical simulations, Daniel Schafer, Prof. Jean-Jacques Simond, Hydropower into the next century, September 1997, Portoroz, Slovenia.

1995

Logiciel modulaire pour la simulation et l’étude des systèmes d’entraînement et des réseaux électriques, PhD Thesis 1995, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, A.Sapin.

1994

SIMSEN: A modular software package for the analysis of power networks and electrical machines, A. Sapin, J-J. Simond, ICEM 94, Paris, France. Article.pdf