HYDROULIC ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF SMALL HYDRO POWER: A CASE STUDY OF PLANT AT GOGRIPUR, KARNAL

Abstract

Chapter 1 deals with introduction of small hydropower plant with renewable potential and achievement in India as well as hydro-power potential of India. It also deals with major elements of a hydro system i.e. basic element, turbine efficiency, drive system, and control system. Chapter 2 deals with literature review of hydropower projects, there cost effectiveness, life cycle, Performance analysis and study of renewal energy using micro hydro turbine. It shows the detail summary of various research paper in a brief way, including their results. Chapter 3 gives us the Idea about Head and Flow analysis of small hydro power sites. It gives a brief knowledge of condition for Head, Pressure Head of a small hydro power plant. It deals with the determination of Nozzle Velocity by using Bernoulli’s equation and Euler’s equation and thereafter developed power delivered by flowing fluid to the turbine. In chapter 4 a case study was done on the site of small hydro power plant at Gogripur by visiting the site and various parameters are taken of that plant as a general information having the capacity of 2000 k.w. of small hydro power plant. All the necessary details were taken about the turbine, generator and about power evacuation for this case study. In the last chapter the various results are taken by using EES software program using EES software and different mathematical calculation were done to determine the overall efficiency of the Gogripur small hydro plant, hence various input parameter such as Head, Flow rate, RPM, power, Tangential velocity, Flow, flow velocity, absolute velocity are provided to calculate and to obtain the overall efficiency.