Design And Fabrication Of Low Head Screw Turbine For Remote Area
The Screw Turbine is a water turbinewhich uses the principle of the Archimedean screw to convert the potential energy of water on a upstream level into work. the turbine consist of a rotor in the shape of Archimedean screw which rotates in a semicircular trough. The turbine is promising because
2025-06-28 16:31:37 - Adil Khan
Design And Fabrication Of Low Head Screw Turbine For Remote Area
Project Area of Specialization Shared EconomyProject SummaryThe Screw Turbine is a water turbinewhich uses the principle of the Archimedean screw to convert the potential energy of water on a upstream level into work. the turbine consist of a rotor in the shape of Archimedean screw which rotates in a semicircular trough. The turbine is promising because of Ultra-Low head and fish friendly. In Pakistan, not enough work is done on it.
Project ObjectivesThe objectives of our project to be achieved are.
- To design and Fabricate a Screw turbine for Rural area.
- To achieve specific amount of power to operate a specific task or to pwer a specific building equipments.
- To get familiar our society with this renewable and easy source of energy.
- Determination of various sites parameters and flow rates.
- Selection of feasible site to install the project.
- Calculation of various turbine design parameters.
- Designing of 3D model in SolidWorks 2016.
- Fabrication of the project.
- Experimentation of the project.
- Checking for validation.
- Installing the project on the selected site.
- Report writing of the project.
- very cost effective relative to other turbines and waterwheels.
- better efficiency at less than optimum flows compared to other turbines and water wheels.
- relatively simple to install, use and maintain.
- slow rpm’s and therefore longer lasting bearings.
- Insensitive to clogging.
- Easy implementation in existing situations (no civil construction work).
- robust highly reliable design using standard 3 phase generators and other components easily available.
- ability to handle debris without need for fine screening because there are no small nozzles.
- Improvement of water quality.
- Low maintenance costs.
- fish friendly, can safely pass fish downstream.
- can be used on heads as low as 1 meter and flow as low as 100 liters per second.
- Long life time.
- Self-regulating to changing water flow.
- Scalable & bespoke.
Turbine shaft lenght is 1200mm
Turbine shaft inner diameter is 65mm
Turbibe blades outer diameter is 121mm
Number of Blades are 10
Diameter of casing trough is 250mm
12 volt battery and a generator
Turbine shaft and blade material is stainless steel
Pulley material is stainless steel
Required power to produce is 1000W
Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry ManufacturingOther IndustriesCore Technology Shared EconomyOther TechnologiesSustainable Development Goals Affordable and Clean Energy, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesRequired Resources| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 70500 | |||
| Turbine Shaft | Equipment | 1 | 10000 | 10000 |
| Generator Shaft | Equipment | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Generator and battery | Equipment | 1 | 15000 | 15000 |
| Bearing | Equipment | 2 | 600 | 1200 |
| Trough | Equipment | 1 | 8000 | 8000 |
| Stand | Equipment | 1 | 4000 | 4000 |
| Electric Wiring | Equipment | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Printing presentations and proposals | Miscellaneous | 4 | 200 | 800 |
| Report writing | Miscellaneous | 4 | 1000 | 4000 |
| Blade sheet | Equipment | 1 | 10000 | 10000 |
| Pulley | Equipment | 2 | 3000 | 6000 |
| Belt | Equipment | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Transport | Miscellaneous | 1 | 5000 | 5000 |
| Colour paint | Equipment | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |