Research Article
Picohydro Scale Power Plant Pilot Project Utilizing Limited Water Flow as Renewable Energy
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.20-10-2022.2328852, author={Eswanto Eswanto}, title={Picohydro Scale Power Plant Pilot Project Utilizing Limited Water Flow as Renewable Energy}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education, ACEIVE 2022, 20 October 2022, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ACEIVE}, year={2023}, month={5}, keywords={picohydro pilot project water discharge renewable energy river flow}, doi={10.4108/eai.20-10-2022.2328852} }- Eswanto Eswanto
Year: 2023
Picohydro Scale Power Plant Pilot Project Utilizing Limited Water Flow as Renewable Energy
ACEIVE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-10-2022.2328852
Abstract
Until now, the energy needs of all countries have started to run out and each country is competing to find alternative energy sources as a substitute for energy sources for future needs. In Indonesia, as an archipelagic country with many rivers, it is actually easy to get an environmentally friendly alternative energy source that becomes a pilot project for a pico-hydro power plant that is useful for replacing energy sources from fossils. The research method was carried out by field surveys, making a study of river flow potential for picohydro applications. From the results of this study, information was obtained that in every river flow that flows water with a constant flow, the installation of pico-hydro scale plants can be used, because this condition will affect the operational conditions of the generating equipment, such as turbine rotation, power generated, pico-hydro efficiency up to the application in the form of the resulting load will be a problem if the river flow used in this pico-hydro application changes or is not constant, especially when the water flow becomes smaller so that it cannot turn the turbine during the dry season. The results of the survey and analysis of potential studies at a cross-sectional area of 2.15 cm obtained a river water flow velocity of 2.46 m/sec with an average measurement discharge of 3.26 m³/second, so that if it is estimated that the potential power that can be generated reaches 4.57 kW .