| Title |
A Study of Design factors for Increasing Energy Production in Small Hydro power with Using Long Pipe |
| Authors |
김현한(Kim, Hyun-Han) ; 김광호(Kim, Kwang-Ho) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2014.63.8.1134 |
| Keywords |
Small hydropower design factors ; Head loss & discharge |
| Abstract |
Recently the need for renewable energy development is expanding due to the global climate change, the environmental issues and the limited fossil energy resources. Dependence of energy on overseas is high in Korea. To resolve the environmental problems and to improve the energy independence rate, the development of renewable energy is more required. The small hydro power, one of the renewable energy resources, has been developing and operating from a long time ago. If we are new developing a small hydro power with the use existing dams and reservoirs, we will design the length of inlet pipe and the diameter suitable for it. However, in case of using the existing water supply pipe which had been designed suitable for water service, the designer has to review and check that the pipe is suitable for operating a generator. In this paper, the design of small hydro power using the existing long pipe of water supply, we suggest the optimum way to reduce the water hammer in pipe which causes the unsteady flow during the load-shutdown of generator, the generator operation plan for the stable supply of water and the design factor of determining the generator capacity through the analysis between discharge and head-loss. |