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http://dx.doi.org/10.5293/kfma.2014.17.4.030

Performance Improvement of Very Low Head Cross Flow Turbine with Inlet Open Duct  

Chen, Zhenmu (Graduate School, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mokpo National University)
Singh, Patrick Mark (Graduate School, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mokpo National University)
Choi, Young-Do (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of New and Renewable Energy Research, Mokpo National University)
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The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery / v.17, no.4, 2014 , pp. 30-39 More about this Journal
Abstract
The cross flow turbine is economical because of its simple structure. For remote rural region, there are needs for a more simple structure and very low head cross flow turbines. However, in this kind of locations, the water from upstream always flows into the turbine with some other materials such as sand and pebble. These materials will be damage to the runner blade and shorten the turbine lifespan. Therefore, there is a need to develop a new type of cross flow turbine for the remote rural region where there is availability of abundant resources. The new design of the cross flow turbine has an inlet open duct, without guide vane and nozzle to simplify the structure. However, the turbine with inlet open duct and very low head shows relatively low efficiency. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to optimize the shape of the turbine inlet to improve the efficiency, and investigate the internal flow of a very low head cross flow turbine. There are two steps to optimize the turbine inlet shape. Firstly, by changing the turbine open angle along with changing the turbine inlet open duct bottom line (IODBL) location to investigate the internal flow. Secondly, keeping the turbine IODBL location at the maximum efficiency achieved at the first step, and changing the turbine IODBL angle to improve the performance. The result shows that there is a 7.4% of efficiency improvement by optimizing turbine IODBL location (open angle), and there is 0.3% of efficiency improvement by optimizing the turbine IODBL angle.
Keywords
Very low head cross flow turbine; Inlet open duct bottom line; Performance improvement; Internal flow;
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