MICRO HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT DESIGN BASED ON A FLOW-THROUGH HYDRO TURBINE

This article presents data on the design of a damless micro hydroelectric power plant (further – «MHPP») based on a flow-through hydro turbine designed for autonomous power supply. The presented article describes the methods of development and modeling of MHPP in the CAD system of the SolidWorks program . The authors have solved a number of scientific and technical problems, which include: ensuring minimal energy losses in the flow part of the turbine; creating a turbine design and its parts that are technologically advanced in mass production. The simulation of the flow part of the turbine used in the work made it possible to ensure the corr ect choice of the input and output angles of the blades and to design the blade taking into account the results obtained during modeling. With the specified parameters (head, flow rate, rotation speed), the meridian outlines of the turbine flow section are selected.