FLOW ANALYSIS OF A SHP STATION

Abstract

Quest for energy is unending due to the rapid depletion of the fossils fuels we need to look for the alternate sources of energy, which is also clean and renewable. Among the renewable energy sources available, small hydropower is considered as most the promising and economical source of renewable energy. India is blessed with many rivers, natural streams, irrigation cannel with barrages, dams network and mountains offering hydro potential of different size like large, small, mini and micro hydropower. The cost effective and efficient design for the different machines SHP Station is required. This hydropower industry is faced today with challenge of addressing the cost effective innovative concepts of Hydro turbines, and station layout. General and economic approach to employ three dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to simulate the flow through the various components of hydropower station including the fore bay and tailrace channel is required. The application of CFD has become an essential part of the design, model study, and testing for such development. Under present study of flow behavior across the water conductor system of a SHP station is considered for analysis. The commercial available Fluent software has been used for the analysis. The flow field is calculated numerically by means of color visualizations, Quantitative analysis of the flow field for better understanding of the fluid mechanics was obtained and discussed.