Design and Analysis of a Fish-Friendly Micro Gravitational Water Vortex Power Plant (GWVPP) on Zarqa River, Jordan

The main water source of Zarqa River is the treated wastewater from As-Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant (As-Samra WWTP) which located in Governorate Al-Hashimiyya on eastern part river; this means year-round flowing river. This hydro energy wasted continuously without exploiting it to generate electricity, but when trying implement traditional hydropower projects river problem faced low head and flow. Since a Gravitational Water Vortex Power (GWVPP) an in-stream technology that can be operated with hydraulic (0.7-5.0) m flow rate 0.5 3 /s at least; study proposed install on-grid GWVPP by one manufacturing companies exploit serve local community providing farmers needs electricity. also determines appropriate site for establishing collecting data terms head, flow, proximity grid roads Google Earth, visits, making measurements. Then manufacturers contacted Turbulent Company, then has been designed. Environmental economic feasibility analyses were performed using RETScreen Expert software. As result, research indicates installing technically, economically, ecologically viable.