Design & development of zero head horizontal axis hydrokinetic turbine
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2022-08
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UMT Lahore
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With the exponential increase in energy demand, the forecasted value in 20 years is 260% of the present demand. Meanwhile Pakistan is still facing 5000MW of shortages of electricity. Pakistan has a great potential of renewable energy generation using dams, onshore and offshore wind farms and solar energy etc. Large investments, governmental unwillingness, lack of technological and manufacturing skills are the main hurdles. This research aims to overcome these hurdles by proposing innovative zero head hydrokinetic turbine design that can capture energy with no or little requirement of costly civil work and high skill labor to form turbine shape. This turbine is able to work at relatively flat areas of Sindh and Punjab Province having massive amount of unused water resources. From the perspective of increased usage of alternative energies, the focus has been diverted toward multiple renewable resources including Hydrokinetic turbines. Tig Welding done by using two different materials i.e. aluminum and stainless steel. To efficiently design the turbine, a CAD model has been presented to do the CFD analysis and for the development, a prototype has been constructed based on generated results.