DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PICO MICRO HYDRO SYSTEM BY USING HOUSE HOLD WATER SUPPLY

Gunjan Yadav, A.K Chauhan

Abstract: The energy demand in the World is increasing day by day due to rapidly increasing population and advancement in science and technology. But in present era there are too many obstacles which decrease the consumption of electricity for common peoples, high cost of fuel, high demand and low supply of fuel. Fuels like coal, petroleum, CNG, LPG, nuclear energy are depleting day by day and also degrades our eco-system. Installation cost of large hydro power project are very high and cannot be installed anywhere. Due to these reasons; there is a high time to follow such a system which sort out all these problems. One such a system is proposed in this paper. The aim of this research paper is to build such a system which gives electricity at low cost, which must be eco-friendly, easy to use and to store the generated power by means of battery charging for future use particularly during electricity blackouts. The work of this paper is performed by designing a Pico Micro Hydro system by using house hold water supply. In the domestic pipeline the flow of water has enough kinetic energy to rotate the blade of a small hydro turbine which in turn rotates the rotor of a generator to generate electricity in addition to the other routine activities such as laundry, cook and bathe

Keywords: Pico hydro system, energy storage, renewable energy and small turbine.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0322024