Abstract:
This thesis describes the theoretical solution of our final year project. The project was started with the aim of designing and fabricating a small portable hydropower generation system. We designed and fabricated a hydrokinetic turbine which is very small in size and portable and gives electric output of 80-90 watts, which is enough to light 2-3 bulbs and charge mobiles, laptops and wirelesses etc.
The stress analysis was performed on our system in ANSYS and flow simulation was performed on SOLIDWORKS to analyze our design. Due to portability concerns material selection has been considered and HDPE is used.
