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MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 40, 2016
2015 International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Systems (ICMES 2015)
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Article Number | 02003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Mechanical engineering and dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20164002003 | |
Published online | 29 January 2016 |
CFD Analysis of The Hydraulic Turbine Draft Tube to Improve System Efficiency
1 Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India
2 NIT Meghalaya, India
Demand of the power is increasing day by day with the development of the science and technology. Development of the renewable energy sector has become essential issue at the present situation due to the limited source of the non-renewable energy. Hydro energy power generation sector is superior over the other renewable sector due to the high efficiency, ability to continuous generation and low generation cost. In India a great amount of the power generation is taken care by the hydro power system but still some more potential have unexplored. The efficiency improvement of the hydro turbine system can be done for the new installation or installed system by the improvement in component level. The system can be installed by the state of the art equipment, like modern inlet guide vane (IGV) control system, improved design of the runner, IGV system, draft tube, penstock to reduce the loss, hence improve the efficiency. The energy recovery in the draft tube depends on the design of draft tube. In the present work the optimized design of the draft tube shape through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation has been carried out in ANSYS FLUENT platform. The design objective of the draft tube is to reduce the flow loss and improve the energy recovery, hence to improve the efficiency.
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