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- Journal Article:
Erinofiardi et al.
Potential energy from fluid flow of small rivers or irrigations could be extracted become electricity by using screw turbine. This turbine is promising because the advantages of ultra-low head and fish friendly.Experimental performance of screw turbine for ultra-low head hydro resource is presented in this paper. The screw turbine with anoutside diameter of 142 mm and the water flowrate of 1.2…
- Journal Article:
Dellinger et al.
The Archimedean Screw Generator (ASG) allows transforming potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy and is convenient for low-head hydraulic sites. As it is a new and growing technology with few guidelines for design and performance optimization, the present contribution proposes a new experimental and numerical investigation method for studying ASG performances. In order to study the…
- Journal Article:
Shahverdi et al.
Archimedes screw turbines have gained popularity in generating power from flowing water. One aspect that hasn't been considered yet is optimizing those parameters that are considered assumptions in the prediction models. In this research, a simple procedure was introduced to design an appropriate Archimedes screw turbine for a given site using a prediction model and an optimization model.…
- Journal Article:
Bouvant et al.
In this study, the performance of an Archimedes screw turbine (AST), in terms of the power coefficient (CP), was evaluated. The design parameters, including the inner and the outer diameter (Di and Do, respectively), the axle length (L), the blade inclination with respect to the longitudinal axis of the screw (α) and the blade stride (p), were…
- Journal Article:
Zhang et al.
Aiming to prolong the duration of detection equipment deployed in deep water, a new type of hydrokinetic turbine with good self-starting ability should be developed to harness low-speed current energy in such deep-water scenarios. In this study, a novel ductless Archimedes screw turbine is proposed to improve the system’s startup performance for low-speed current applications. An…
- Journal Article:
Stergiopoulou and Kalkani
The present paper presents the preliminary investigation of the hydrodynamic behavior of Archimedean hydropower turbines, with inclined and horizontal axis, for the exploitation of the low-head hydraulic energy and the kinetic energy of natural and artificial watercourses, including coastal and tidal currents. By using the similarity theory, some experimental cochlear rotors have been…
- Journal Article:
Pongduang et al.
The helical tidal current turbine was studied and reported its performance and characteristics for free water flow electric turbine development. The scale model of tidal turbine was built in dimension as: 0.5m and 0.6m of diameters and 1.25m in length; the turbine cross section blade was the symmetric NACA0020 with a 0.07m chord length, and there were 3 blades with the helical angle of 120…
- Thesis:
Kozyn
This thesis presents a complete power loss model for an Archimedes screw turbine (AST), capable of predicting the mechanical power of an AST based on available energy head. This model amends a prior idealized frictionless AST performance model to include losses from inlet and outlet entrance effects, internal hydraulic friction and outlet submersion. Laboratory experiments on scale-model ASTs…
- Thesis:
Songin
This study investigated how power and efficiency in Archimedes screw turbines (AST) is impacted by varying parameters including; length, inner and outer diameter, pitch and number of flights. An index was created that determined how important some variables were over others by testing a number of laboratory sized screws and comparing the resulting power and efficiencies. A MATLAB AST…
- Thesis:
Lyons
Archimedes Screw Turbines (ASTs) are being utilized across Europe and are beginning to be utilized in North America for micro-hydropower (less than 500 kW) production. There is currently no mathematical model in the literature which describes the power production of an AST of arbitrary geometry and at partial-fill conditions, and only limited literature on laboratory and full-scale testing of…
- Journal Article:
Kozyn and Lubitz
This paper presents a complete power loss model for an Archimedes screw used for power generation (ASG) including a non-dimensional model to predict power losses due to outlet submersion flooding. This model amends a prior idealized, frictionless ASG performance model to include power losses due to bearing friction, outlet exit effects, internal hydraulic friction and outlet submersion. This…
- Conference Paper:
Lyons and Lubitz
Archimedes screw generators (ASGs) are beginning to be widely adopted at low head hydro sites in Europe, due to high efficiency (greater than 80% in some installations), competitive costs and low environmental impact. Compared to other microhydro generation technologies, ASGs have greatest potential at low head sites (less than about 5 m). The performance of an Archimedes screw used as a…
- Journal Article:
Rohmer et al.
A small hydro plant using an Archimedes screw is the focused of this work. This is an alternative solution to smallscale hydropower as it exploits unused resources such as small rivers or streams. Archimedes screw plants reverse the pump use principle and exploit the available stream power for energy production in very low head application. Based on the previous studies, the optimal sizing of…
- Journal Article:
Zitti et al.
The aim of designing a new hydrokinetic turbine simple, cheap, environmentally friendly and suitable for installation in remote areas is pursued by studying the efficiency of an Archimedes turbine that exploits the kinetic energy of a water stream rather than an upstream-downstream difference in water head. First, the efficiency of a hydrokinetic Archimedes turbine has been studied using…
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