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Abstract: The cross-flow hydraulic turbine was gaining popularity in low head and small water flow rate, in establishment of small hydro-power plant, due to its simple structure and ease of manufacturing in the site of the power plant. To obtain a cross-flow turbine with maximum efficiency, the turbine parameters must be included in the design. In this paper all design parameters of cross-flow turbine were calculated at maximum efficiency. These parameters include runner diameter, runner length, runner speed, turbine power, water jet thickness, blade spacing, number of blades, radius of blade curvature, attack angle and the blade and exit angles. Keywords: Cross-flow turbine, hydro-power plant, design parameters, maximum efficiency.
I. INTRODUCTION Hydro-power was considered as one of the most desirable source of electrical energy due to its environmental friendly nature and extensive potential available through out the world. Within the scope of hydro-electric power, small power plants have gained much attention in recent years. Several small hydro-power schemes have been proposed and successfully implemented, which include radial, axial, and propeller type turbines. Nowadays, the cross-flow hydraulic turbine is gaining popularity in low head and small water flow rate establishments, due to its simple structure and ease of manufacturing in the site of the power plant. The cross-flow turbine is composed of two major parts, the runner and the nozzle . the runner was a circular rotor with two side walls to which the blades are fixed along the periphery of the turbine. The cross-section of the blades was circular with specific radius of curvature. The nozzle directs the water flow into the runner at a certain attack angle. Typically components of a cross-flow turbine were shown in figure (1). The water jet leaving the nozzle strikes the blades at first stage. The water exits the first stage and was crossed to the second stage inlet after exiting the runner completely. Some of water was entrained between the turbine stages and does not contribute to the energy generation. One of the major design considerations in crossflow turbine was to minimizing this undesirable uncrossed water flow in order to achieve maximum efficiency [1,2].
Figure (1) Typical components of cross-flow turbine The efficiency of the cross-flow turbine was dependent on several design parameters. These include runner diameter, runner length, runner speed, turbine power, water jet thickness, blade spacing, number of blades, radius of blade curvature, attack angle and the blade and exit angles. Since the advent of cross-flow turbines, much advancement has been made in its design through experimental studies and research. Some of published works were presented in references [3-8]. In reference [3], a complete design procedure has been presented based on the theory of crossflow turbine given in reference [2], but the results are completely anomaly due to a mistake was happen in the transforming British units into metric units, specially in the runner speed equation ( ), which was a
mistake, and the right equation was ( ), in British units. In this paper the design parameters in metric units were calculated at maximum efficiency of the crossflow turbine using the Matlab Simulink computer program. II. DESIGN STEPS The design procedure of the cross-flow turbine involves the following steps: 1. Preparing the site data This involves the calculations and measuring the net head of the hydro-power plant and its water flow rate. a. Calculation of the net head (Hn): (1) Where Hg = the gross head which was the vertical distance between water surface level at the intake and at the turbine. This distance can be measured by modern electronic digital levels. Htl = total head losses due to the open channel, trash rack, intake, penstock and gate or value. These losses were approximately equal to 6% of gross head.
Manuscript received on February, 2013. Bilal Abdullah Nasir, Hawijah Technical Institute, Kirkuk, Iraq
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International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249 8958, Volume-2, Issue-3, February 2013
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III. CONCLUSIONS The cross-flow turbine is suitable for installing small hydro-electric power plants in case of low head and flow rate. A complete design of such turbines has been presented in this paper. The maximum efficiency was found to be 88% constant for different values of head and water flow rate. The complete design parameters such as runner diameter, runner length, water jet thickness, blade spacing, radius of blade curvature, turbine power, turbine speed and number of blades were determined at maximum turbine efficiency. IV. NOMENCLATURE
a Ar Radial rim width (m) River cross-sectional area (m2) Nozzle roughness coefficient (0.98) Outer runner diameter (m) Inner runner diameter (m) Gravity acceleration constant (m.s-2) Gross head of the plant site (m) Net head of the plant site (m) Total head losses (m) Runner length (m) Runner speed (r.p.m) Specific speed in metric units Number of blades Turbine power (Kw) Water flow rate (m.s-3) Radius of blade curvature (m) Inner radius of runner (m) Outer radius of runner (m) Tangential blade spacing (m) Thickness of jet entrance (m) Water jet thickness (nozzle width) (m) Jet velocity before entering (m.s-1) River or stream water velocity (m.s-1) Tangential runner velocity (m.s-1) Runner angular velocity (radian.s-1) Distance between water jet and shaft center (m)
Figure (2) Matlab Simulink flow-chart for design of crossflow turbine at maximum efficiency Table (1) design results for the parameters of cross-flow turbine at constant flow rate (Q = 1 m3.s-1)
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C Do Di g Hg Hn Htl L N Ns n Pt Q rc ri ro tb te tj Vj Vr Vtr w y1
( m ) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 1
Pt (K w) 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 73 81 89
N (r.p. m) 172 204 226 242 255 267 277 287 295 303 310
% 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Ns 53 0 37 3 30 4 26 3 23 5 21 4 19 8 18 5 17 5 16 5 15 8
L (m ) 3. 70 2. 17 1. 60 1. 30 1. 10 0. 95 0. 84 0. 76 0. 70 0. 64 0. 60
Do( m) 0.2 25 0.2 70 0.3 00 0.3 20 0.3 40 0.3 50 0.3 70 0.3 80 0.3 90 0.4 00 0.4 10
Di( m) 0.1 46 0.1 80 0.1 90 0.2 10 0.2 20 0.2 30 0.2 40 0.2 50 0.2 60 0.2 65 0.2 70
tb (m ) 0.0 39 0.0 47 0.0 52 0.0 56 0.0 60 0.0 62 0.0 64 0.0 66 0.0 69 0.0 70 0.0 72
tj (m ) 0.0 65 0.0 78 0.0 86 0.0 93 0.1 00 0.1 03 0.1 07 0.1 10 0.1 14 0.1 17 0.1 20
y1 (m ) 0.0 26 0.0 31 0.0 34 0.0 37 0.0 40 0.0 41 0.0 43 0.0 44 0.0 45 0.0 47 0.0 48
y2 (m ) 0.01 10 0.01 30 0.01 50 0.01 60 0.01 70 0.01 80 0.01 85 0.01 90 0.01 95 0.02 00 0.02 50
rc (m ) 0.0 37 0.0 43 0.0 48 0.0 52 0.0 55 0.0 58 0.0 60 0.0 62 0.0 64 0.0 66 0.0 68
Q (m3. s-1) 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9
Table (2) design results for the parameters of cross-flow turbine at constant head (Hg = 10 m)
Pt (K w) 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 65 73 N (r.p. m) 957 677 553 479 428 391 362 338 319 % 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Ns 16 5 16 5 16 5 16 5 16 5 16 5 16 5 16 5 16 L (m ) 0.2 0 0.3 0 0.3 5 0.4 0 0.4 5 0.5 0 0.5 4 0.5 7 0.6 Do( m) 0.13 0.18 0.22 0.25 0.28 0.31 0.33 0.36 0.38 Di( m) 0.0 80 0.1 10 0.1 44 0.1 70 0.1 86 0.2 00 0.2 20 0.2 40 0.2 tb (m) 0.02 20 0.03 16 0.03 80 0.04 40 0.05 00 0.05 40 0.06 00 0.06 30 0.06 tj (m) 0.0 37 0.0 52 0.0 64 0.0 70 0.0 83 0.0 90 0.0 98 0.1 00 0.1 y1 (m) 0.0 15 0.0 21 0.0 25 0.0 29 0.0 33 0.0 36 0.0 39 0.0 42 0.0 y2 (m) 0.0 06 0.0 09 0.0 11 0.0 13 0.0 14 0.0 15 0.0 17 0.0 18 0.0 rc (m) 0.0 20 0.0 30 0.0 36 0.0 41 0.0 46 0.0 51 0.0 55 0.0 60 0.0
y2 Distance between water jet and inner periphery of runner (m) Greek symbols 1 2 Attack angle (deg.) Blade inlet angle (deg.) Blade exit angle (deg.) Turbine efficiency (%) Specific water density (Kg.m-3) Blade roughness coefficient (0.98)
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