Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems: A Guide for Designers, Installers and Engineers – Ebook PDF Version

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844075389
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844075386
• Author: Chris Elliott

An essential addition to the Earthscan Planning & Installing series, Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems provides vital diagrams, pictures and tables detailing the planning and installing of a micro-hydro system, including information on the maintenance and economics once an installation is running. The book covers subjects such as measuring head and flow, ecological impacts, scheme layouts, practical advice, calculations and turbine choice. Archimedes screws are also covered in detail, as well as the main conventional choices relevant to small sites.

Micro-hydro refers to hydropower systems with a power rating of 100kW or less. A 100kW system will produce 100 standard units of electricity in one hour. These systems have been popular in some sparsely populated or mountainous countries for a number of years, but now new technology, less stringent regulation of grid connected generators and standardised turbine designs are encouraging more widespread interest in micro-hydro in the developed world.

Table contents:

1. Energy in Context

2. Hydro Basics

3. The Weight of Water

4. Head and Flow

5. Ecological Considerations

6. Stages of Project Design

7. Initial Design

8. Predicting Power Output and Energy Capture

9. The Value of Power

10. Weirs and Impoundments

11. Intakes and Forebays

12. Spillways

13. Channels

14. Fish Passage Structures

15. Powerhouses

16. Screening

17. Penstocks

18. Sluices

19. Turbines

20. Mechanical Transmission

21. Archimedes Screw Turbines

22. Electrical Basics

23. Control Equipment

24. Generators

25. Grid Connection

26. Design for Flood

27. Assessing Historic Structures

28. Condition Monitoring

29. Commercial

30. Site Investigation

31. Temporary Works and Construction Methods

32. Accepting Machinery, Installation and Commissioning

33. Maintenance and Monitoring

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