Enhancing the Efficiency of Small-Scale and Microhydroturbines Using Nature-Imitation Technologies for the Development of Autonomous Energy Sources

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0040601519120024" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0040601519120024</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0040601519120024" target="_blank" >10.1134/S0040601519120024</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enhancing the Efficiency of Small-Scale and Microhydroturbines Using Nature-Imitation Technologies for the Development of Autonomous Energy Sources

Original language description

The issues of developing small-scale and microhydropower generation under present-day conditions as one of the renewable energy sources that do not aggravate environmental problems are considered. Some of the most effective approaches to designing microhydropower plants and small-scale and microhydroturbines that meet the environmental friendliness and high-energy efficiency requirements are outlined. The results of a computational study of a microturbine prototype with a blade system modified according to a principle of biomimetics (nature-imitation technologies) have been validated experimentally. Two modified configurations of the blade system are considered and compared with the original version under identical conditions. To increase the reliability of the findings, the experiment with the original and modified impellers of the microhydroturbine was repeatedly conducted. The energy characteristics of a microhydroturbine based on experimental data that demonstrate the best repeatability with an error not exceeding 10% are presented. Based on the calculated and experimental data, a comparative assessment of the turbine’s energy characteristics with the original and modified impellers is made. It has been established that the use of the so-called “growths” on the entrance edge of the impeller blades contributes to streamlining the flow pattern in the interblade channel. This, in turn, leads to a decrease in hydraulic drag and, consequently, to a decrease in hydraulic losses when flowing around the blade system. As shown by quantitative assessment of the energy characteristics, the energy efficiency of a microhydroturbine is increased by 20%, which proves the viability of the chosen direction for developing smallscale and microhydropower generation as well as the effectiveness of the approaches used in the design of the working bodies of microhydroturbines. Further ways of improving the approaches under study and obtaining new developments in this field of hydropow

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20301 - Mechanical engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/LTARF18019" target="_blank" >LTARF18019: Design of hydraulic sources for energy recuperation</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Thermal Engineering (English translation of Teploenergetika)

ISSN

0040-6015

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

944-953

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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