About

Dr. Christophe NICOLET graduated from the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, in Switzerland, and received his Master degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2001. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the same institution in the Laboratory for Hydraulic Machines. Since, he is managing director and principal consultant of Power Vision Engineering Sàrl in St-Sulpice, Switzerland, a company active in the field of optimization of hydropower transients and operation. He is also external lecturer at EPFL in the field of “Transient Flow”. He is working group member of IEC-TC4 on hydraulic turbines of WG33 on pressure fluctuations transposition and co-convenor of WG36 on hydraulic transients.

Career Type:

Manager/Administrator

Organization Type:

Companies and Enterprises

Expertise Fields/Interests:

- Hydroacoustic modelling - Water hammer and hydraulic transient calculation - SIMSEN simulation software distribution, training, support and maintenance - Transient phenomena in hydroelectric power plants - Hydro unit grid code compliance - Hydraulic machines dynamic behavior and pressure fluctuations - Turbine governor parameter optimisation for primary, secondary control - Stability analysis for isolated grid operation - Power generation optimization - Didactic hydropower plant simulators - Hydraulic transient and hydropower plant dynamics teaching

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