Fish behavior at the horizontal screen of a novel shaft hydropower plant

• Published in: River Research and Applications
• Main Authors: Funk, Nicole, Knott, Josef, Pander, Joachim, Geist, Juergen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/570; Biowissenschaften; Biologie; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/590; Tiere (Zoologie); ARIS imaging sonar; fish behavior; fish passage; fish protection; horizontal screen; innovative hydropower; shaft power plant; turbine entrainment; Aris; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1742679; https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1742679/document.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4302

Preventing fish entrainment during their downstream passage at hydropower plants remains a major challenge in reducing the ecological impacts of hydropower production. We investigated fish behavior at the world's first innovative shaft hydropower plant with its novel screen concept, aiming at r...