DEVELOPMENT A MICRO HYDRO POWER SCHEME AT THE WEIR ON BLACK TIMOK *

The mi cro hy dro power scheme (MHPS), as a prac ti cal re al iza tion of re-search pro ject sup ported from Min is try of Sci ence of the Re pub lic of Ser bia, is pre sented in the pa per. MHPS was con structed on the Black Timok (East Ser bia) at the de serted weir. MHPS can be used as a model for other sim i lar sites with ex tremely low head. On this way, the con tri bu tion to ap proach ing to Di rec tive EU for re new able en ergy sources was done. The re sults of pro-ject are summed in the pa per. The method of tur bine type se lec tion by use of nomogram is pre sented. The re sults of di men sions scal ing of ex ist ing smaller tur bine are given. On the base of these re sults, the tur bine of 5 times higher di men sions was de signed and made. The re sults of es ti ma tion and mea sur ing the pa ram e ters of this tur bine are com pared. De signed and con-structed pow er house of MHPS, which is jointed to ex ist ing weir, is de-scribed. The re sults of en ergy ef fi ciency and eco log i cal ef fects anal y sis of MHPS are given in the pa per. Key words: micro hydro power, turbine, powerhouse, distributed gri