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Engineering & Performance of DuoTurbo: Microturbine with Counter-Rotating Runners

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Daniel Biner
2016
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Considering the nuclear phase-out strategy of several European countries and the future tendency to promote renewable energies, the exploitation of small hydropower sites (

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François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Daniel Biner
2016
Conference Papers

Abstract

Considering the nuclear phase-out strategy of several European countries and the future tendency to promote renewable energies, the exploitation of small hydropower sites (

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/7f85c65e-fd62-4a79-a9a3-61350341e8dc

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