Improving survival: injury and mortality of fish struck by blades with slanted, blunt leading edges

• Autor(en)
  Amaral S.V., Watson S.M., Schneider A.D. et al.
• Jahr
  2020
• Beschreibung
  Compact turbines offer potential to reduce hydropower plant construction costs, but conventional turbine blade designs endanger entrained fish due to high blade strike speeds and thin leading edges. We evaluated the potential for combined blade leading edge slant and large leading edge thickness to increase strike survival.
• Reihe
  Journal of Ecohydraulics Vol. 5 Nr. 2 S. 175-183
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  • Improving survival injury and mortality of fish struck by blades with slanted blunt leading edges