Abstract Micro-hydropower plants have become one of the alternative solutions to meet electricity needs people in remote villages that public company has not reached. However, performance a micro-hydro system be continuously developed. This research aims improve by examining effect slope penstock on increase electrical power. The is varied with diverse angles, namely θ = 50 °, 60 70 80 and 90 °...

[1] This paper presents a novel approach for modeling high-elevation hydropower systems. Conservation of energy and energy flows (rather than water volume or mass flows) is used as the basis for modeling more than 135 high-elevation high-head hydropower sites throughout California. The unusual energy basis for reservoir modeling allows for development of hydropower operations models for a large...

Experimental tests in prototype are necessary to understand the dynamic behaviour of the machine during different operating points. Hydraulic phenomena as well as its effect on the structure need to be studied in order to avoid instabilities during operation and to extend the lifetime of the different components. For this purpose, a complete experimental study of a large Francis turbine prototy...

In this paper, the hydro power plant model (with penstock-wall elasticity and compressible water column effect) is simulated at random load disturbance variation with output as turbine speed for random gate position as input. The multilayer perceptron neural network (i.e. NNARX) and fused neural network and fuzzy inference system (i.e. ANFIS) for identification of turbine speed as output variab...