Simulating and designing small hydrokinetic turbines: A review

The increased use of renewable energy resources for rural electrification has encouraged research and experimental projects decreasing designs uncertainties. This paper presents a deep and critical review of the design of micro hydro-generation technologies for river applications. This article shows three principal aspects: design, analysis and computational tools to study vertical micro-turbines, including the ones that are not vertical but that are relevant for the actual research. An exhaustive review is presented and analyzed hereafter. An in-depth review analysis focused on design is carried out. As a result of this work, it is clear that despite the need for interest in using renewable resources technologies, there is still a lack of research about design focused on computational analysis, as evidenced by the limited number of publications so far

• Autores: López Castrillón, Yuri Ulianov; Laín Beatove, Santiago; Ramírez Tovar, Ana María
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
• Repositorio: RED: Repositorio Educativo Digital UAO
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:red.uao.edu.co:10614/11412
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10614/11412; https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v12i11.15525
• Palabra clave: Desarrollo energético; Recursos energéticos; Energy development; Power resources; CFD; Fluid-structure interaction; Hydrokinetic turbines; Mechanical design
• License: Derechos Reservados - Universidad Autónoma de Occidente