---On the afternoon of April 30, 2015,
a 3-member delegation from Fraunhofer IOSB headed by Prof.
Thomas Rauschenbach, Director of Advanced System Technology
(AST) Branch, paid a visit to HRC, and was given a warm
reception. Director of HRC Ms. Cheng Xialei, Deputy Director
Mr. Xu Jincai, the chiefs and engineers from HRC's affiliated
R+D Center, Division of Scientific and Technical Management,
and Division of Foreign Affairs and Training, as well
as the professors and researchers from Zhejiang University
of Technology attended the meeting with the guests from
Germany.
As one of the largest scientific and
technical institute in Europe, Fraunhofer has a galaxy
of staff over 30,000 all over the world. It has initiated
a new plan for developing SHP, so the professional advantage
of HRC in SHP drew its earnest attention, and this visit
just aimed at establishing an extensive exchange and bilateral
cooperation in SHP field.
At the meeting, the guests made a briefing
on Fraunhofer and its sub-institutions, and the progress
in the Sino-Germany project "Small Hydropower Plants:
Assessment of Climate Protection Potential and Improvement
by Smart Technologies" and the project in USA called
"Hydropower Production and Marketing under Uncertainty",
based on which, an in-depth bilateral discussion was carried
out concerning the SHP development and the optimized dispatching.
Moreover, one of the scientific and technical supporting
projects in the "12th Five-year" Plan undertaken
by HRC, i.e. the "Key Technology for Energy Saving
and Efficiency Improvement in Rural SHP Stations"
was introduced through a presentation titled "Intelligent
Optimized Ecological Dispatching for Small Hydropower",
which was delivered by a representative from Zhejiang
University of Technology, one of the participating units
in the above-mentioned project. The research objectives
and the achievements focusing on optimized dispatching
in the field of SHP have been highly evaluated by the
professors from Fraunhofer.
Based on extensive exchange and in-depth
discussion, both the Chinese and German experts believed
that there would be a prosperous prospect for the bilateral
cooperation in the construction and optimized dispatching
of SHP projects.(2015-05-06)
