In this study, the feasibility of using micro-wind turbines to power wireless sensors on a cable-stayed bridge is comprehensively investigated. To this end, the wind environment around a bridge onto which a turbine is installed is examined, as is the power consumption of a wireless sensor. Feasible alternators and rotors are then carefully selected to make an effective small wind generator (kno...

The energy demand in the World is increasing day by day due to rapidly increasing population and advancement in science and technology. But in present era there are too many obstacles which decrease the consumption of electricity for common peoples, high cost of fuel, high demand and low supply of fuel. Fuels like coal, petroleum, CNG, LPG, nuclear energy are depleting day by day and also degra...

The primary aim of this paper is to provide background information, motivation for applications and an exposition to the methodologies employed in the development of fuzzy logic based decision making in hydro or water power engineering by optimum selection of hydro turbine blade material. All the works on the application of multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) or fuzzy logic to material scie...

This chapter proposes a solution for the control of micro hydro power stations for island operation based on the characteristics of hydraulic turbine nonlinear model with the use of a self-excited induction generator. To control the frequency of the turbine it was considered the non-linear model applied to this type of turbine and the use of a frequency regulator, with characteristics of a prop...

This thesis first proposes a hybrid ac/dc micro-grid and its coordination control for reducing the processes of multiple conversions in an individual ac or dc grid. Renewable energy based distributed generators (DGs) play a dominant role in electricity production, with the increase in the global warming. Distributed generation based on wind, solar energy, biomass, mini-hydro along with use of f...

Several remote communities have limited electricity access and are mainly dependent on environmentally damaging fossil fuels. The installation of microgrid networks green energy initiatives currently addressing this issue. Thus, the techno-economic assessment a that comprises photovoltaic arrays, micro-hydro turbine, diesel generation is proposed herein. Two scenarios evaluated considering incl...

Renewable energy sources i.e.,energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, hydro power, geothermal and ocean resources are considered as a technological option for generating clean energy. But the energy generated from solar and wind is much less than the production by fossil fuels, however, electricity generation by utilizing PV cells and wind turbine increased rapidly in recent years. This pap...

Aiming at the problems existing in fault diagnosis of Distributed micro gas turbine, a kind of new information system frame of fault Diagnosis on Distributed micro gas turbine is proposed in this paper. The consumers and the manufactures contact with each other through Internet, share the corresponding data of the Distributed Micro-turbine, and diagnose and solve the faults together. Through th...

Many factors related to river run-off are vague, subjective and difficult to quantify. The fuzzy logic method is very useful for such problem solving approach such as small hydro power generation. The rule base and membership functions have a great influence on the performance and efficacy of the plant and also to optimize the small hydro power generation in the high altitude region particularl...