WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer
Print ISSN: 1790-5044, E-ISSN: 2224-3461
Volume 14, 2019
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Fish Friendly Water Turbine For Small Scale Power Generation
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Abstract: In a modern world, tremendous advancement in electronic technology played important role in the 21st century. However, many remote areas of the world are still not introduced with electric power. Some barriers are their while setting up of power grids. Off-grid energy generation is the one solution for this problem face by remote areas. The majority of the off-grid energy solutions are required to develop this remote area, but those are costly and not environment-friendly. This turbine is characterized as horizontal axis hydrokinetic turbine perpendicular to flow of water in the open channel. This research paper examines on ‘floating water turbine’, its advantage and effective alternative to fossil fuel based on producing power generation in remote areas. To understand the development of turbine design and actual working in water application, an experimental result was computed with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis by considering same input flow velocity. The performance of turbine is measured by a computational fluid dynamics analysis along with an experimental work in the Hydro machinery lab. The turbine is rotated by water flow with a flow velocity within a range of 0.58 m/sec to 1.65 m/sec in an open channel viz. rivers, streams, and canals. The research paper also discusses the methodologies chosen while designing the turbine and computing result were based on various parameter viz. Maximum power, torque, RPM, Tip Speed Ratio (TSR) and coefficient of power
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Pages: 85-91
WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5044 / 2224-3461, Volume 14, 2019, Art. #10