Abstract:
Over the past few decades, with the rapid industrial development and population increase, electricity has become a necessity, and thereby a tremendous rise in demand has ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Over the past few decades, with the rapid industrial development and population increase, electricity has become a necessity, and thereby a tremendous rise in demand has been created. However, given the growing concerns about climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels, it is essential to utilise renewable sources of electricity generation. By harnessing electricity through moving water, the Pico Hydropower Generation System (PHPGS) is among the most attractive small-scale hydropower and cost-effective sustainable energy technologies available. Naturally, moving water can be found in rivers and man-made conduits where there is a continuous water flow. The sewage treatment facility has continuous water flow at the effluent pipe that can generate electricity by means of a small hydropower system. According to the literature, a micro hydro turbine system with a maximum power output of 38 kW was installed as a pilot trial in Hong Kong's Stonecutters Island STP, which uses sewage flow hydro energy for in-house use [15]. However, the power generated is based on the higher flow rate and outfall discharge head. Our research focus is on harvesting energy from lower flow rate and outfall discharge head by implementing the PHPGS in IWK's STP and using intelligent efficient controller to maintain voltage and frequency within limits as the incoming STP final effluent flowrate changes under dynamic conditions. Taking the other Pico Hydropower plant research work application as a comparison, the fixed control system from the previous research work does not offer the dynamic response monitoring for Pico Hydropower plants when the water incoming flow rates into the hydro turbine are varied. The purpose of this research was to develop an efficient PHPGS control system for a residential STP's continuous effluent discharge point with a low head and high flow fluctuations. This research proposes a combination of fuzzy and PID controllers for Self-Excitation Induction Generator (SEI...
Date of Conference: 05-06 December 2022
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 26 December 2022
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