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Project Helena Creek Hydro British Columbia, Canada - Case Study
Statistics: Turbine: One 410mm single nozzle Pelton Generator: One 75kW Kato @ 1200 RPM Rated head: 155.6 Rated flow: 0.055m3/sec Commissioned: 2009 This micro hydroelectric power plant supplies electricity for Malibu Club - a Young Life camp located 150km north of Vancouver, British ...
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Monroe Cold Spring Hydroelectric Project Monroe City, Utah, USA - Case Study
Statistics: Turbine: One single nozzle Pelton Generator: One 45kW Westinghouse induction generator @ 1200 RPM Rated head: 137.2m Rated flow: 0.0329m3/sec Commissioned: 2013 The water for this project comes from Cold Spring. After passing through the power house, the water will be returned to the culinary water line so it will be available for use in the City's culinary water system. ...
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A small island in the Indian Ocean offers big lessons on clean power
The Indonesian island Sumba is working to provide 100% renewable electricity to all 650,000 residents by 2025. As the sun sets on the small Indonesian island of Sumba, Danga Beru Haba begins weaving under the glow of a single incandescent lightbulb, the only one in her home. Although she is tired from working dawn to dusk in the fields surrounding her village of Kampung Kalihi, the sarong she is ...
By Ensia
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Techno-economics of micro-hydro power plants for remote villages in Uttaranchal in India
Results of a techno-economic feasibility evaluation of some micro-hydro power (MHP) plants being planned and implemented for remote village power supply in the state of Uttaranchal in India are presented. The capital cost of MHP plants in the capacity range of 20–100 kW (including cost of local transmission and distribution system), investment requirement per unit of rated capacity, and relative ...
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The history of Hydrobox
It all started with a late night beer in a hotel bar in Accra, when Thomas Poelmans & Christian Verbrugghe met while participating in the 2015 trade mission to Ghana organised by Flanders Investment & Trade. Thomas was working under Green Crossroads as an independent consultant & project developer in search of a new venture. Christian was a director in Malthe Winje, a Norwegian ...
By HydroBox NV
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Ross Creek Hydroelectric Project - Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada - Case Study
Stistics: Turbine: One single nozzle Pelton Generator: One 150kW single phase synchronous generator @ 1200 RPM Rated head: 305m Rated flow: 0.057m3/sec Commissioned: 2012 This is one of two micro hydro power plants built for the supply of electricity to an equestrian center, which consists of three large farm buildings and one house. The two plants are within one kilometer of each, but ...
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Usages of free-flow hydraulic turbines and boosting their energy efficiency
The article analyses engineering solutions of free-flow hydraulic turbines and ways of making them more energy efficient through application of the hydrodynamic effect of boosting the flow power. Keywords: energy; energy efficiency; capacity; power; turbine; free-flow; flow; water wheel; depth; hydrodynamic; effect; feedback; hydraulic jump MAIN PART INTRODUCTION The issue of using energy ...
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A novel technique proposed for automatic control of small hydro power plants
A new scheme is proposed for the speed control of hydro turbines. Power can be controlled by controlling the rotary motion of the spear valve or linear motion of the sluice gate. In this paper, necessity for speed control, various function of governors, types, speed regulation of micro-hydroelectric power plants, functional block diagram of power generation and control system general models for ...
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