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Research & Development.
Imagination, innovation and optimization are at the core of Mavel’s research and development efforts. Working on
challenges defined by sales engineers, the R&D Team develops solutions with the support of the over 1,000 years
combined experience of the company’s 60 civil, hydraulic, mechanical and electrical engineers. The engineering team
is supported with state-of-the-art 3-D modeling software and through partnerships with educational institutions and
technical laboratories.
Mavel has over 100 proprietary turbine designs. Each year, the R&D Team, working with design engineers, develops
new turbine designs to meet higher efficiencies, minimize civil costs, utilize new materials, simplify installation
procedures and time and/or adapt proven turbine technology to customer specific needs.
Design innovations have included the development of modular micro turbines, Kaplan turbines with an operating range
as low as 1.5 meters and high efficiency Francis and Pelton runners suitable for heads up to 1000 meters.
The R&D Team uses both standard and proprietary computational fluid dynamics software. This software models
dynamic hydraulic flows and allows for the effective development and testing of new hydraulic profiles and turbines.
This shortens the development process. The illustrations on the right depict examples of streamlined visualizations of
the velocity fields inside Kaplan, Francis, Pelton and micro turbines.
Mavel’s R&D Team stays abreast of developments in both material and manufacturing technology. Minimizing
production costs and maximizing quality and product life are key considerations in exploring material innovation.
Manufacturing process and control are fundamental. The latest innovation in this area for Mavel was the installation
of a state-of-the-art CNC 6-axis prototype machining center that allows for the highest accuracy transfer from design
to production.
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