STUDY ON POWER GENERATION BY USING CROSS FLOW WATER TURBINE IN MICRO HYDRO POWER PLANT

S.U.Patel, Prashant.N.Pakale

Abstract: The demand of electricity and fresh water is ever increasing due to increase in population and comfort level of human beings. The micro hydro power is one of the best available solutions as it has economic, social and environmental benefits and is also have a huge potential globally. So this will make demand for micro hydro power generation. The main equipment in micro hydro power generation is turbine. Many turbines are available but among them cross flow water turbine becomes popular as having advantages over using it as in small head and small water flow rate, simple structure and manufacturing method for power generation in hydro power plants. The objective of paper is to review the implementation of cross flow water turbine in Micro hydro power plants (MHP) for power generation.

Keywords: Cross flow water turbine, Micro hydro power plant (MHP), power generation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0405001