Water Inspire
Water Inspire
Water Inspire
INTRODUCTION
Generating electricity from water is a fascinating concept.
I tried to analyse why our and most of Indian states are
not able to utilize their waterbodies to generate
hydropower?
The major culprit comes out as unavailability of water
through out the year.
What is Hydropower
Description
Hydroelectric power harnesses the energy in running
water!
MANAGEMENT OF FLOW:
To maintain the continuous flow through out the year in a
hydropower project, water from lower reservoir can be
uplifted to upper reservoir.
So basically water will be recycled betwwen both the
reservoir and we can have countinuous flow through out
the year.
MECHANISM:
1) To uplift the water from lower to upper reservoir, I
suggest application of natural forces like capillary force or
suction force to keep the project under budget.
2) A siphon can be used as a mean to uplift water to
upper reservoir.
3)At sea level, a siphon can uplift water upto little more
than 10 metres.
4)In a lower reservoir, where water is already flowing
downwards, the pressure of water on siphon will raise
the upliftment height as the pressure implied on water is
increased.
CONCLUSION:
The scheme can be used for small and micro hydropower
projects. More efforts can also be done to develop micro
hydropower systems, just like solar power panels
installed at roof top of homes with perpetual water flow
with limited availability of water.