The Use of Tailored Micro-Hydro System in Micro-Urban Scale as a Partial Presumption for Creating the Autarchic Micro-Urban Structures

Abstract:

High energy import rates (over 90% per year) make both countries (Taiwan R.O.C. and Slovak Republic), viably engaged in research on renewable resources, also green planning policy has been proposed. Population is concentrated in the major cities which are facing energy deficiency issues; the unregulated development of micro-urban areas is underestimated in both cases so are the energy issues bound with them. Centralized energy sources require long distance wires to support remote areas; hydro energy is so far the most common, stable and efficient renewable resource in use. Water turbine’s efficiency has gone up to 96%; a proposed new multi-purpose small hydro type is one of the preliminary small scale systems that could be precisely tailored to micro-urban demands. It could stand by for direct use if needed and also use various types of working mediums (e.g. compressed gas, steam, water).

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 724-725)
• Pages: 1264-1267
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.724-725.1264
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Stefan Tkac*, Zuzana Vranayova
• Keywords: Energy, Micro-Hydro, Micro-Urban, Renewable Resources, Water Turbines

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DOI: 10.1556/pollack.7.2012.3.2