Investigation of the Behavior of the Fluid of a Micro Hydroelectric Gravitational Vortex, by Means of the Computational Dynamics of High Performance Fluids, for the Generation of Electric Power

Abstract

The demand for energy is increasing, especially in developing countries. Renewable energies such as hydroelectric power, has become one of the most demanded energy sources for its generation, that is why it was studied and analyzed, through the computational dynamics of fluids "CFD" in the software ANSYS, the flow of a micro vortex gravitational hydroelectric power station for the generation of electric power. This study analyzes a structure that, by its design, has the capacity to form a gravitational vortex current from a water flow with a small difference in height. To verify results, a prototype of the system is built, which will generate energy from the formation of the gravitational vortex. 

A Review of Gravitational Water Vortex Hydro Turbine Systems for Hydropower Generation

“…In the 39 parametric studies (including optimisation studies), 19 involve basins, 25 involve turbines, and 9 involve channels, while in the remaining non-parametric studies, only 9 involve basins, 12 involve turbines, and 3 involve channels. It should be noted that 23 publications did not involve (or provide information on) any of these three main components at all, which are mainly some case studies and/or feasibility studies [24,31,40,[50][51][52][53]59,60,82,91,94,96,97,101,104,105,109], validation studies [48,66], analytical models [41,67,95], and concept designs [64,104]. It should also be noted that some publications involve more than one main component [23,36,37,46,47,62,77,79,80,85,110] and the thesis [114] involves all three main components.…”