Your Hydro designs, manufactures, installs and commissions small-scale hydro power
turbines that covers the full range of head and flows up to 5 MW capacity including low-head
axial flow and Kaplan turbines, medium-head Francis and cross flow machines and high-head
Pelton and Turgo turbines. Your Hydro identifies a market need for improved hydrology and
energy modelling in response to policy pressure on the viability of UK hydroelectric schemes
and in order to build its business in value-added engineering services covering the feasibility
and development of hydro sites – worldwide. Your Hydro will work with modelling and
simulation specialists CFMS and WIKKI Ltd to create a new and customised Virtual Turbine
Environment for the hydroelectric sector. This will include models for the engineering
assessment of sites and the installation effects of specific turbines. Use will be made of the
latest in computational fluid dynamics simulation, developed for the aerospace sector, running
on supercomputing facilities provided by CFMS at the Bristol and Bath Science Park.