Hi Perran, You can locate the turbine at the top of hill, and you can use pump as turbine. Ather type of turbine that you can use in this site is Francis or Pelton micro turbine. Dimitar --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This afternoon I visited a site in Devon England, on > the land of a friend of > mine, with an old mine leat. We measured the flow as > 20 litres/sec and the > local river is about 12m below the leat. > > I calculate a theoretical 2 kW maximum available > (assuming no losses). > > Could you please advise the type of installation > that we should consider to > generate non-grid connected power. The most obvious > load is a domestic cooker > of the AGA type which is an electric storage type of > cooker with massive > thermal capacity. > > Is it possible to locate a turbine/generator on the > leat at the top of the > hill - i.e. discharging through a filled pipe to the > river (suction mode ??) > > The owner would like to use this site as an > opportunity to learn about > microhydro - is this a good application for a pump > to be run as a generator ? > > Many thanks in advance for your comments. > > Perran Newman > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > >
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