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ID 115849
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Takeshima, Yasutoshi Tokushima University
Ogawa, Yuya Tokushima University
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Journal Article
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Small hydropower generation is one of important alternative energy, and enormous potential lie in the small hydropower. However, efficiency of small hydroturbines is lower than that of large one. Then, there are demands for small hydroturbines to keep high performance in wide flow rate range. Therefore, we adopted contra-rotating rotors, which can be expected to achieve high performance. In this research, performance of the contra-rotating small hydroturbine with 60mm casing diameter was investigated by an experiment and numerical analysis. Efficiency of the contra-rotating small hydroturbine was high in pico-hydroturbine and high efficiency could be kept in wide flow rate range, however the performance of a rear rotor decreased significantly in partial flow rates. Then, internal flow condition, which was difficult to measure experimentally, was investigated by the numerical flow analysis. Then, a relation between the performance and internal flow condition was considered by the numerical analysis result.
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
ISSN
17551315
17551307
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Volume
49
Issue
10
Start Page
102008
Published Date
2016-12-13
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