Low head simple reaction water turbine

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Global warming, climate change, rising fuel prices and sustainable future environment are the main motivations behind this research project. Hydropower is a very good example of renewable energy and it is the most reliable base-load energy source. There is huge untapped technically exploitable hydro energy potential of about 14,000TWh (Taylor, 2004, Sommers, 2004) waiting to be utilised throughout the world. There are few small to medium scale low head hydro turbines commercially available, but they are very expensive for micro power generation at individual level. Therefore, there is an inherent need of a simple low cost and low head hydro turbine that can encourage use of hydropower available in abundant from creeks, small rivers, streams etc. at an individual level. <br><br>The aim of the research presented in this thesis is to develop low cost and high performance simple reaction water turbine for electricity production from low head hydro sources. In this thesis, two new innovativ

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