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Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

Handbook / Manual
By: Chris Elliott(Author)
288 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, tables
Publisher: Earthscan
Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems
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  • Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems ISBN: 9781844075386 Paperback May 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1 week
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About this book

An essential addition to the Earthscan Planning & Installing series, Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems provides vital diagrams, pictures and tables detailing the planning and installing of a micro-hydro system, including information on the maintenance and economics once an installation is running. Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems covers subjects from measuring head and flow, ecological impacts, scheme layouts, practical advice, calculations and turbine choice. Archimedean screws are also covered in detail, as well as the main conventional choices relevant to small sites.

Micro-hydro refers to hydro power systems with a power rating of 100kW or less. A 100kW system will produce 100 standard units of electricity in one hour. These systems have been popular in some less-developed countries for a number of years, but now new technology, less stringent regulation of grid-connected generators and standardised turbine designs are encouraging more widespread interest in micro-hydro in the developed world.

The renewable energy sector is growing at a remarkable rate, and whilst much attention has so far focused on solar and wind technologies, the UK and Europe have great potential for generating power from small scale hydroelectric installations.

Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems is aimed at site owners, designers and consultants who are looking to develop schemes in the micro-hydro scale – 5 to 100kW – although the concepts are applicable to smaller and larger schemes.

Contents

1. Energy in Context
2. Hydro Basics
3. The Weight of Water
4. Head and Flow
5. Ecological Considerations
6. Stages of Project Design
7. Initial Design
8. Predicting Power Output and Energy Capture
9. The Value of Power
10. Weirs and Impoundments
11. Intakes and Forebays
12. Spillways
13. Channels
14. Fish Passage Structures
15. Powerhouses
16. Screening
17. Penstocks
18. Sluices
19. Turbines
20. Mechanical Transmission
21. Archimedes Screw Turbines
22. Electrical Basics
23. Control Equipment
24. Generators
25. Grid Connection
26. Design for Flood
27. Assessing Historic Structures
28. Condition Monitoring
29. Commercial
30. Site Investigation
31. Temporary Works and Construction Methods
32. Accepting Machinery, Installation and Commissioning
33. Maintenance and Monitoring

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Biography

Chris Elliott has many years experience in small hydro in the UK, and set up WRE in 2005. He has designed and installed dozens of schemes in this time across a range of sizes and technologies.

Handbook / Manual
By: Chris Elliott(Author)
288 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, tables
Publisher: Earthscan
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