Design and In Construction of Pico-hydro System For Generating Electricity

Abstract

The energy production and transportation represents challenge to the decision maker and the designers of the rural areas. This challenge created an interest to produce electricity from any possible source available in the rural areas. One of the adopted and proven techniques is the Pico hydro power generation. This project is mainly about a Pico hydro power generation, in which a modified water turbine is installed in the new Pico hydro power generation.This project is done to reduce the dependency on the networks electrical supply.Generator is connected to the turbine to get the mechanical work to produce electricity. Suitable generator was selected as generators depend on the speed and torque provided to the shaft that connected generator and turbine.