RiversShallowAffordableBlockageDeveloping countriesIf hydrokinetic turbines are to make a significant contribution to small scale off-grid power supply, they will need to be affordable, reliable and easily deployed at many sites, not just a few with exceptional combinations of depth and high flow ...
Hydrokinetic turbines are a promising technology for electrical power supply in remote villages near flowing rivers.Clogging by floating debris is a major problem for hydrokinetic turbines in many waterways.To overcome this problem, a non-clogging axial flow turbine was designed using wind turbine ...
The enormous inroads made by renewable energy in recent years have been the key to the development of new technologies designed to obtain energy from a range of resources. Hydrokinetic microturbines used to harness kinetic energy from rivers, tidal and marine currents epitomize such developments. As...
Hydrokinetic turbines such as vertical axis turbines (VATs) may provide decentralised, clean, sustainable energy for remote communities that lack access to the main energy grid or renewable resources. As traditional hydropower adversely alters aquatic ecosystems, it is essential to evaluate the environment...
Hydrokinetic Energyuses the force of moving water (current) to turn turbines placed directly in domestic rivers, estuaries, coastal waters or tidal flows, which in turn drive electrical generators that convert the kinetic energy of the moving water (hence its name “Hydrokinetic Energy”) into elec...
Hydrokinetic Energy Corp. (HEC) is a developer of hydrokinetic turbines for the production of electrical energy. Based in Key West Florida, HEC embarked on a program to design, develop, analyze, optimize and build the most efficient marine electrical energy generation device. ...
Hydrokinetic energy is a predictable energy source available in streams, rivers, and tidal channels with sufficiently fast water velocities. The extraction of hydrokinetic energy for electricity generation requires the installation of hydrokinetic turbines facing the flow field. As the development of hydroki...
(variable power generator, VPG) from renewable sources such as wind and river/tide/ocean wave/ocean current, that is, a marine hydrokinetic turbine electric power generator among other possible applications in wind turbines for generating electric power at constant alternating current frequency for a ...
Although numerous HK designs are under development (see DOE 2009 for a description of the technologies and their potential environmental effects), the most commonly proposed current-based projects entail arrays of rotating devices, much like submerged wind turbines, that are positioned in the high-...
There are water turbines that are designed to be submerged in rivers where the normal flow of water provides power, however, the power produced is limited by the speed of the river's flow. Other designs use the incoming and outgoing tides to rotate water wheels, however, their mechanical pow...