ELECTRICITY GENERATION BY SMALL HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS

Authors

  • O.D. Abdalgbar Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, India
  • E.V. Solomin South Ural State University
  • P.A. Yunusov South Ural State University
  • E.H. Tsvetkova South Ural State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14529/power190209

Keywords:

hydroelectricpower plant, electricity generation, hydropower renewable energy sources, HOMER software

Abstract

The today’s market for small hydroelectric power plants (SHPP) is on the rise thanks to considerable interest in distributed energy, its environmental friendliness, and the benefits of using renewable resources. Modular equipment of riverbed hydroelectric power plants can be tailored to different water flow and hydrostat-ic pressure values. The efficiency of hydropower energy conversion systems can be maximized by a variety of water flow management techniques. This paper demonstrates how to introduce innovative solutions for hydroturbine-based electricity generation adjusted to the hydrostatic pressure at a particular spot of the river in the context of its natural geographical features. The system is represented by a model that simulates a power plant of specific location and capacity. In addition, studies of the constructed model show that an autonomous system will be cheaper than expanding the existing backbone network. Moreover, such a system generates excess lectricity that can be used to cover the loads or peaks of additional consumers.

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Published

2019-06-30

How to Cite

[1]
Abdalgbar, O., Solomin, E., Yunusov, P. and Tsvetkova, E. 2019. ELECTRICITY GENERATION BY SMALL HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS. Bulletin of the South Ural State University series "Power Engineering". 19, 2 (Jun. 2019), 80–86. DOI:https://doi.org/10.14529/power190209.

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