Design And Development Of Simple Pelton Water Turbine For Pico Hydro Generation System

Zawawi, Muhammad Zuhaili (2018) Design And Development Of Simple Pelton Water Turbine For Pico Hydro Generation System. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Hydro energy is one of the renewable energy that can be fetch and harvest from the flow of water by using the appropriate mechanism and system that can generate efficiently of electricity. There are many types of hydro energy which are large hydroelectric, small hydroelectric, micro hydroelectric and pico hydroelectric. Each type generates different amount of output energy that can be consumed as utility. Now days, many rural places lack of electricity utilities and left out due to the cost and geography condition. So, the hydro energy is oftentimes considered to be called green energy because there is no emission of gas that give greenhouse effects related with the output of the electricity. Pico hydroelectric size is selected in this project because it can utilize even a small flow of water to generate electric. Those small flow of water is used to rotate hydro’s pelton turbine to drive the mechanical shaft that connected with generator. This mechanical power is then being used to drive a generator in order to generate electrical power. Extensive study on generator, buck boost, turbine component, and the system circuit are the core for this development. During the development of this pico hydroelectric project, software such as Solid work is involve in designing the suitable pelton blade and wheel turbine. The designated model will be printed in 3D model parts, so that it can be assembled to become complete pico wheel water turbine. The purpose use 3D model because it made by light and strong material. The designed turbine should be capable to meet performance specification for hydropower generation, such as an adequate minimum rate of flow’s water and the type of turbine design used. Besides, the technology is environmentally in term of pollution to nature, capital cost and life expectancy. This type of pico hydration commonly give output power below 5 kilowatts, nevertheless still there are various part of losses power occur in the process generating the output. Thus, affected the efficiency and output rate of the system. The expectation from this pico hydroelectric is it can supply current and voltage for small load such as resistor or charging purpose

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