DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF CROSS FLOW TURBINE ON HULUKA RIVER IN ETHIOPIA
| Author(s) | : | Abubeker Negesa Gemeda |
| Institution | : | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ambo University, Ethiopia |
| Published In | : | Vol. 5, Issue 3 — March 2018 |
| Page No. | : | 1007-1117 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Micro hydropower is an important source of renewable energy in the world because of its clean and abundantenergy resource to develop. It is promising means of providing cost effective electricity to location with limited or noavailability of grid supplied electricity. In this paper, discuss detail about the cross flow turbine which is considering thefluid parts of the machine. Also cross flow turbine is designed and simulated using commercial software ANSYS CFX. Todesign this machine, the actual parameters of micro hydroelectric plant such as the water flows, types of turbine, headand other parameters are specified. A horizontal rectangular nozzle is used with this type of turbine to drive a jet ofwater along the full length of the runner. The complete design parameters such as runner diameter, runner length, waterjet thickness, blade spacing, and radius of blade curvature, turbine power, turbine speed and number of blades weredetermined at maximum turbine efficiency. Also low parameters like pressure and velocity distribution are discussed.
Abubeker Negesa Gemeda, “DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF CROSS FLOW TURBINE ON HULUKA RIVER IN ETHIOPIA”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 3, pp. 1007-1117, March 2018.
