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SMART MICRO HYDROKINETIC POWER PLANTS(NEW PORTFOLIO IN RENEWABLE ENERGY MIX)
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APPLICATIONS IN CANALS USING EXAMPLE OF COOLING TOWERS IN THERMAL POWER PLANT
SMART HYDRO POWER: the Company
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Smart Hydro Power designs, builds and
commercializes kinetic hydro power
plants for distributed generation.
Shareholder:
- Kolmsee family 36%
- eCapital (VC fund) 35%
- KfW (German development
bank) 12%
- HTGF (private/public) 12%
- Private investors 5%
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• Installed in running water w/o plantshutdown in cooling canal of MiningCompany.
• Plant is Grid synchronized, Plant loadfactor above 70%.
• Renewable base load supply 365x24x7.
• Four axial flow hydrokinetic turbines in anarray.
• Smart power evacuation with automaticbraking system eliminating operationalfatigue.
• Generation Costs of < 0.04 U$ / kWh
Pilot Project: 20 kW (4x5kW, Axial Flow)
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• 5 kW sealed underwater permanent magnet generator which is gearless driven by three blade rotor.
• Output up to 600 V chaotic AC, necessary rectifier-inverter in line.
• Output velocity dependent.
• Power curve – power as function to velocity .5 kW @ 3.1 m/sec.
• Cost-efficient, renewable base load solution
Hydrokinetic Power
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Site specific Structure: Easy Installation
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Power Injection low Voltage in local Grid
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Smart Power Evacuation
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• Flow velocities highest in center decreasingtowards side walls. Require fine tuning ofindividual turbine in array varying sweep dia.
• Wake of individual turbine interfering witheach other. Application of diffusers required.
• Installation structure needs to behydrologically optimized to reduceturbulence – use rounded steel.
• Blockage leading to level rise upstream ofproject. Floating model with reduced no ofturbines per array to be adopted forextraction of maximum power out of canalwith minimal level rise.
Technical Optimization
Existing steel structure
Possible structure with diffusor
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Future of Distributed Generation
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Use existing infrastructure and addgeneration capacity at costs 3 to 5 U$ ctper kWh (depending on flow)
• Tail races of existing hydropowerplants
• Cooling canals of thermal powerplants or chemical plants
• Irrigation canals with velocity >= 2m/s
• Natural rivers with more than 3 mdepth (in dry season) and >= 1.5 m/saverage velocity mainly for ruralelectrification (higher costs for offgrid installations)
Market Potential Distributed Generation
Smart Hydro Power GmbH, Germany
Dr. Karl Kolmsee
karl.kolmsee@smart-hydro.de
www.smart-hydro.de
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