DEVELOPMENT OF HYDROKINETIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM: A REVIEW

Small scale hydropower is one of the renewable energy source of energy which has vast potential. Hydrokinetic turbines are suitable to tap this potential and the technology is recent which produces electricity from flowing water. Hydrokinetic turbines are more suitable to convert kinetic energy in the river and marine current. An extensive literature review has been carried out and presented in this paper. This paper basically summarizes existing hydrokinetic turbines and projects implemented so far. Based on literature review it is found that lot of work is being carried out on hydro kinetic turbines which are suitable to install at power channel, river and canal. However, optimum parameters for different types of hydro kinetic turbines have not been found to develop the standard size hydro kinetic turbines for different sites. Index Terms: hydro kinetic turbine, Tidal, horizontal axis, vertical axisetc