About Me
- Rob
- Cuddebackville, New York, United States
- I am a retired electronics engineer, educator, businessman and builder of micro hydro installations for fun and sometimes even profit. This one uses a pump/motor as a turbine/generator using a 200 ft waterfall in our back yard. It is currently producing 15KW. I will be tweaking it to take advantage of greater winter flows. It's not the product, but the process... I enjoy doing the most with the least. So this renewable energy source cost less than $2 per watt of capacity not counting any labor and engineering.
hi Robert,
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I found this and was wondering if you think it would work for 1000 gpm flow@100ft head ?
http://www.bid-on-equipment.com/detail~id~48263.htm
if it can be used as a turbine, any idea what kwh it might produce?
Hi Bill,
ReplyDeleteAt 100 Ft head your water velocity would dictate a smaller diameter impeller to get the RPM up to 1800. A better match would be a 4X6X8 pump with perhaps a 20 to 30 HP 1800 RPM motor. You'll get maybe 5 to 8 KW. You could also try to find a 6 pole motor to put on this pump to bring the max power rpm down to 1200 RPM.
Rob
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