Hydropower Projects

What is Hydro Electricity?
Pump Storage Hydro Electricity
How Hydropower plant works?
Water Turbine Power Generation System
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Introduction of Micro Hydro (4 MB approx)
Small Hydro Electric Plant
Renewable Energy: Hydro Power
Guide on How to develop small Hydro Power Plant ( 7 MB approx )
A Study of Hydroelectric Power: From a Global Perspective to a Local Application

Hydro-power energy is transferred from potential energy into kinetic energy and from kinetic energy to electricity using a turbine.
Water Turbine Power Generation System:

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Micro Hydroelectric Power
Micro Hydro Pros and Cons  
Micro Hydro Systems 

How to build it?
These links provide all the materials and information required to build your own water turbine :
Builditsolar.

Helpful link for Seminars :
Sustainable energy for future

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This is a video of the final year engineering project carried out in Mangalore. The idea behind the project is to develop a suitable digital control system to control the frequency, monitor all parameters and protect from abnormalities and to send SMS on failure and as and when required. please note that green pipe shown in the video not sufficient as someone comment on garden hose.the system is designed to operate at a head of 60 m and a discharge of 20 liters/sec with the 6-inch pipe as a penstock.

Hydrokinetic Project:

Another form of a Hydropower project is Hydrokinetic where we use the kinetic energy of moving water at the place of the potential energy of stored water.

Hydrokinetic(Hydro means water and kinetic means motion) is the science of water in motion. Man learned using nature's force for its own use since ancient times. In Greece, people used river water flow for grinding wheat. Though many people are already working in this field but still, a lot more can be done because many sources of this energy are still not get used. There are many ways different ways to harness this kinetic energy of water such as Ocean currents, Tides, Flowing Rivers and even irrigation canals.



Anyone who has spent some time near the shore or swims against the river flow knows about the immense power of waves. In this post, we will try to how we can use this energy for our benefit and what are the different ways people are already harvesting it.
We can divide hydrokinetic in many sub-sections. For example, Tidal Energy is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into useful forms of power - mainly electricity. The most common use of hydrokinetic is a dam where we store large amounts of water to use it later for moving our turbine to generate electricity. Though dams contribute lots to our economies they have some environmental issues too. In this post, we will try to find out ways to generate electricity with minimum environmental impact. We will find out ways to generate electricity using river flow without building a dam.

Is it possible to produce power from moving water without the use of a dam?
Yes, it is possible and on 20th August 2009, the first project of this kind has started working commercially on the Mississippi River. They are using a turbine from Hydro Green Energy, captures the flow from the output channel of an existing hydropower dam. These turbines use Instream Energy Generation Technology which is like planting windmills in the water and is environmentally friendly. Read more.

Technology Used:
Devices that are used in this project are known as wave energy converters (WECs) or rotating devices. One of the most common devices is The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter. The machine is made up of connected sections that flex and bend as waves pass; it is this motion that is used to generate electricity.

Projects:
Marine Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy: Increasing Velocity for Underwater Power Extraction in the Hydraulic Flume.
Wave energy converter and a submerged horizontal plate (PDF, 6.2 MB Approx)
Tidal Wave Mooring System

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