EA was named as a supplier for a dam construction project which went out for tender. This large dam is for the water supply for a community in the interior of BC. A small amount of power was required to operate the monitoring and automatic valves. Details Microhydro turbine generates between 50-300 watts of power Challenges: Engineer did not properly account for variations in head pressure
as the water level rises and falls. This had a dramatic effect on the
power output. October 2009 update. After the court case was settled, the water district contacted EA. We dusted off our original designs of this sytem and re-installed the microhydro system according to best-practices including low-friction plumbing and a DC heat dump load. The system is now performing properly. |
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