Mini Hydro Power Plant Diagram. If you have water flowing through your property you might consider building a small hydropower system to generate electricity. It is a cheapest and easy method of producing power.
Nevertheless multiple units may be necessary to make most efficient use of water where flow variation is great. Small scale hydro power plants range up to an unit output of 15 mw for axial and kaplan turbines and an output of 30 mw for francis and pelton turbines while the mini compact hydro installations include kaplan and axial units 20 kw 1500 kw francis units up to 3000 kw as well as pelton units up to 5000 kw. Mini hydro power plants 6.
Schematic arrangement of a hydro electric power plant scientific diagram.
It consists of the catchment area reservoir dam slice gate or valve surge tank penstock inlet valve turbine draft tube powerhouse equipment tailrace etc. Strictly speaking renewables first operates in the micro hydro and mini hydro categories so from 5 kw to 1 mw power output though because so many people refer to this scale of hydro as small we also use this designation a lot. Efficiency analyses for small hydro power plant with francis turbine the focus of. This design concept provides optimized solutions for the electro mechanical equipment of all types of small hydropower plant up to an output of 30 mw per unit.