Pedro Manso
EPFL ENAC IIC PL-LCH
GC A3 485 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
CH-1015 Lausanne
Mission
1) Carry out research in hydraulics and water resources and infrastructure, focusing sustainability.
2) Engineer, proof and diffuse innovations on water infrastructure construction, rehabilitation and operation.
3) Foster sustainable hydropower as renewable energy source worldwide.
Travail en cours
Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research - Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE)
1) Lead researcher in "Hydropower infrastructure adaptation" (WP2)
2) Project Manager "Flexstor" Pilot & Demonstrator (WP5) on flexible operation of large hydropower schemes.
Biographie
Dr. Pedro MANSO is a civil engineer with over 20 years of experience in the Water and Energy sectors, both in academia and in engineering practice.
His main research interests are on energy dissipation, multiphase flows, transient flows and fluid-structure interaction, related with hydraulic structures and water systems.
He graduated from IST Lisbon in 1998, started his career at DHV Portugal in the water & environment department. In 2001 he joined the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he conducted several engineering and research projects until 2006, and obtained a PhD on the field of rock scour downstream dams. In 2003 he received ICOLD honor certificate for the Next Generation and in 2006 he was granted the ASCE J. C. Stevens Award. From 2006 to end 2014 he worked in Stucky Ltd in Lausanne as project engineer & manager for greenfield hydro projects and rehabilitation and upgrading of existing hydropower schemes and dams in Europe, Africa and Asia, from the study phase till commissioning. In 2010-2012 he served as branch Director in Portugal.
He is an expert in hydraulic structures, dam safety, feasibility studies and design optimization. He joined the SCCER-SoE late 2014 as responsible for the "Hydropower Infrastructure Adaptation" work plan, seconded to the EPFL. Since 01/2017 he coordinates the Demonstrator (No. 7) on improving flexibility in Large Hydropower operation.
Compétences
Dams & hydraulic structures
Parcours professionnel
Senior Associate | SCCER-SoE | EPFL | since 11.2014 |
Engineer, Project Manager & KAM | Dams Department | STUCKY | 2006-2014 |
Technical Director/CTO | branch office Portugal | STUCKY | 2010-2012 |
Resident Project Manager | Enguri HEPP 1300 MW rehab., Georgia | STUCKY | 05.2007- 06.2008 |
Research fellow | CEHIDRO | IST, Portugal (inc. 3-month stay at IPH-UFRGS Brazil) | 2006 |
Research and Teaching Assistant | LCH | EPFL, Switzerland | 2000-2006 |
Chartered Engineer (P.E.) | Portuguese Chamber of Engineers | 1999 | |
Engineer | Water & Environment Department | DHV Royal Haskoning, Portugal | 1998-1999 |
Education
Exec. Educ. Judge Business School | General Management Program | Cambridge University, UK | 2014 |
Docteur es sciences (Dr Eng.) | Dam safety, water-rock-air interactions | EPFL, Switzerland | 2002-2006 |
Advanced Master | Hydraulic Schemes | EPFL & ETHZ, Switzerland | 1999-2002 (part-time) |
Master thesis (Erasmus) | Coastal Engineering | TU Delft, The Netherlands | 1998 |
Master | Civil Engineering | IST Lisbon, Portugal | 1993-1998 |
Publications
Infoscience
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
- Civil Engineering,
Programmes doctoraux
- Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Doctorants
Cours
Barrages et ouvrages hydrauliques annexes
Les barrages font partie des plus grands ouvrages jamais réalisés par l'homme. Ce cours donne une introduction dans le domaine fascinant de la conception et la construction des barrages indispensable pour l'approvisionnement en eau et énergie mais intégré...
Ouvrages et aménagements hydrauliques
Les aménagements hydrauliques sont indispensable pour garantir l'approvisionnement en énergie écophile et renouvelable, de même que l'approvisionnement en eau de bonne qualité et en quantité suffisante pour lutter contre la faim, la pauvreté et les maladi...
Ouvrages hydrauliques et aménagements hydroélectriques
Basé sur le cours Ouvrages et aménagements hydraulique, la conception générale et l'arrangement des différents aménagements hydroélectriques avec le dimensionnement de leurs éléments hydrauliques ainsi les ouvrages hydrauliques annexes au barrages sont tr...
Recherche
En cours
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4022-5215N2DT - capacity building in dam surveillance and research needs in dam engineering
SmallFLEX - introducing flexible operation on mountain run-of-the-river hydropower schemes. Academic partners: EAWAG, WSL, EPFL-LMH and HES-SO.
Industrial partners: Forces Motrices Valaisannes (FMV)
Research work on:
- Storage alternatives & multipurpose infrastructure
- Aeration and deaeration of pressurized hydraulic waterways
- Interplay between water & sediment nowcasting and HHP operation
- Operation of pelton turbines with variable head & jet instability
- Virtual HPP operation and monitoring
- Downstream impact of flexible operation in winter & transition months
FLEXSTOR - Innovative solutions for flexible hydropower storage
Academic partners: EAWAG, WSL, ETHZ-VAW, EPFL-LMH and HES-SO.
Industrial partners: Kraftwerke Oberhasli (KWO)
Research work on:
- Hydropeaking
- Impulse waves
- Storage management as function of variable demand patterns
- Cascade flushing
- Suspended sediment flushing and related turbine abrasion thresholds
- Pump-turbine instability
RenovHYDRO - renovation of hydropower plants considering new functionalities and services to the grid, in particular:
- adding intra-seasonal flexibility through storage
- hydropeaking mitigation
- combined asset portfolios
Précédente
Chopin S2C - Caractérisation hydraulique des orifices des chambres d'équilibre d'aménagements à haute chute, paramétrage et influence sur la stabilité du système en chargeHydroNET2 - Methodologies for hydropower plants. Research work on:
- Robust design of hydropower plants under uncertainties
- Design of steel lined pressure tunnels and shafts
IST-EPFL Joint Doctoral Initiative - Environmental hydraulics. Research work on:
- Fluid-structure interaction during hydraulic transients (2015-2016)
- Inline micro-hydropower units in Water Supply networks (2014-2016)
- Uncertainties in water resources quantification in Alpine environments
development in a changing environment (2014-2015)
SEDITRANS: Sediment transport in fluvial, estuarine and coastal environment (Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Networks FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN N. 607394 (2013-2014), http://www.seditrans.civil.upatras.gr/)
Dynamic loads generated by high-velocity diffusive jet layers in real-life plunge pools (04/2006 11/2006). IST Portugal, IPH/UFRGS Brazil and EPFL/LCH Switzerland. Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal.
ESHA Thematic network on Small Hydro, European Small Hydro Association, Switzerland (2003-2004). Network of 11 institutions within the ESHA for promotion of mini-hydro. 4th European Framework program.