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PROGRAMME & TIMETABLE

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
14:00-14:10 CET
Mr. Nicholas Crosby
Chairman of PIANC InCom WG 197

PRESENTATION 1 
14:10-14:25 CET Site Identification, Energy Production Potential
Mr. Sebastien Erpicum
Belgium - Liege University – Director Laboratory of Engineering Hydraulics (HECE)

PRESENTATION 2
14:25-14:40 CET Turbine Technology, Interaction with Navigation
Mr. Nicholas Crosby
UK - Associate Director at KGAL Consulting Engineers 

PRESENTATION 3
14:40-14:55 CET Fish Passes and Trash Racks
Mr. Austin Flather
UK - Director AFN Consulting
  
PRESENTATION 4
14:55-15:10 CET Hydropower versus navigation – who wins!
Mr. Ian White
UK - Director IWA

Q&A
15:10-15:25 CET Moderator: Nicholas Crosby

Conclusions
15:25-15:30 CET Moderator: Nicholas Crosby
Chairman of PIANC InCom WG 197
PIANC’s Inland Navigation Commission (InCom) will organise the virtual conference ‘Developing Small Hydro on Inland Navigations’ on 24 November 2021. 
The webinar will concentrate on the key points from the report. 

  • General principles of small hydropower showing the range of power that can be generated, the technologies employed and what data is required to start developing.
  • Development models that have been used in successful implementations of hydropower on inland navigations
  • Control of navigation levels and the interaction between the different requirements for navigation flows
  • Examples from successful project implementations

The 1.5-hour session will feature four presentations dealing with PIANC WG-report 197 on ‘Small Hydro Power plant in Waterways’ and will conclude with a Q&A-session. This conference will be recorded.
 
Workshop Organising Committee
  • Nicholas Crosby, Chairman of PIANC InCom WG 197

SPEAKERS:

Sebastien Erpicum is civil engineer and doctor in applied sciences from Liege University in Belgium, where he teaches lectures related to hydraulics and hydraulic structures. For more than 20 years, he develops research and consultancy activities related to hydraulic modeling at the laboratory of engineering hydraulics (HECE).  

Nicholas Crosby is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a wide range of experience with hydro power plant construction in Asia. His inland navigation experience comes from being the Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer at British Waterways between 2003 and 2016.

Austin Flather is Chartered Civil Engineer and Director of ANF Consulting Ltd. Specializing in small hydropower projects Austin has been involved in the delivery of numerous hydropower projects, many involving navigational waterways in the UK. For more than 30 years he has worked in the construction industry gaining an insight not only into the design of hydropower projects but their construction and long term operation also. 

Ian White is a consultant with over forty years’ experience of operating, maintaining and developing a number of large river navigations within the UK.   Of late he has had considerable experience as  a consultant to the Canal and River Trust in overseeing the development of a number of ‘run of the river’ hydroelectric plants within England ranging from 100kW up to 2mW output. Key issues with this work is identifying, and where necessary mitigating, any risk to the navigation users due to the operation of the plants such as variation in water level, balancing demand, and the prevention of dangerous river conditions near intakes and outfalls.