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Development of a Design Principle through Analysis of Work Mechanism of the Low Rotating Gravitation Vortex Water-turbine

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K00643
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Design and evaluation of sustainable and environmental conscious system
Research InstitutionToyama University of International Studies

Principal Investigator

Uesaka Hiroyuki  富山国際大学, 現代社会学部, 教授(移行) (50329364)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 中川 慎二  富山県立大学, 工学部, 教授 (30337878)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Keywords小水力発電 / ボルテックス水車 / 数値シミュレーション / 再生可能エネルギー / 水車効率 / 渦水流 / ゴミ流入 / 設置コスト / 魚道 / 流体シミュレーション
Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is known that the power generation turbine for slow spiral stream (low rotation vortex turbine) shows excellent characteristics in garbage tolerance and durability, less installation work and less need for fish-way. On the other hand, because the dynamic mechanism of turbine motion is not understood well, it is difficult to design a reliable device and to improve the power generation efficiency. In this research, we measured the basic performance of an experimentally manufactured low rotation vortex turbine, and improved turbine efficiency while changing water turbine blade conditions etc. based on the result of numeric simulation.
As a result, it was revealed that water turbine efficiency of about 70% can be obtained by making water turbine blades operate efficiently in the high flow velocity part near the center of the spiral, and reducing the amount of ineffective water flow at the lower part of the turbine blade and at the center of the vortex.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2017 2016 Other

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 小水力発電用の低回転ボルテックス水車における動作効率改善に関する研究2017

    • Author(s)
      上坂博亨・中川慎二・谷口達也・伊藤宗康
    • Journal Title

      富山国際大学現代社会学部紀要

      Volume: 9 Pages: 1-13

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Fundamental Study on Air-Water Multiphase Flow in Tub-Type Water Wheel Vessel (Experiment and Simulation using OpenFOAM)2017

    • Author(s)
      Kosuke Ametani, Takaaki Shimizu, Shinji Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Uesaka, Hiroki Sato, Muneyasu Ito
    • Organizer
      The 9th JSME-KSME Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 小水力発電用低回転ボルテックス水車ケーシング内における空気・水2相流の流動シミュレーション2017

    • Author(s)
      飴谷功佑,中川信二,清家美保,上坂博亨
    • Organizer
      エコテクノロジーシンポジウム2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] OpenFOAM によるたらい式水車の気液混相流解析(容器内流のシミュレーションと実験)2017

    • Author(s)
      飴谷功佑・清水貴昭・中川慎二・上坂博亨・伊藤宗康・佐藤弘規
    • Organizer
      日本機械学会 北陸信越支部学生会 第 46 回学生員卒業研究発表講演会
    • Place of Presentation
      金沢大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 低回転ボルテックス水車の効率改善と動作解析2016

    • Author(s)
      上坂博亨・中川慎二・清水貴昭・伊藤宗康・佐藤弘規
    • Organizer
      環境科学会2016年会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京都市大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] OpenFOAM による低回転ボルテックス水車容器内の気液二相流解析2016

    • Author(s)
      清水貴昭・飴谷功佑・中川慎二・上坂博亨・伊藤宗康・佐藤弘規
    • Organizer
      オープンCAEシンポジウム2016
    • Place of Presentation
      東京大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 富山県立大学 機械システム工学科 機械エネルギー工学講座 中川グループ

    • URL

      http://eddy.pu-toyama.ac.jp/%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6/%E3%81%9F%E3%82%89%E3%81%84%E5%BC%8F%E6%B0%B4%E8%BB%8A/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 富山県立大学機械システム工学科機械エネルギー工学講座 中川グループ

    • URL

      http://eddy.pu-toyama.ac.jp/%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6/%E3%81%9F%E3%82%89%E3%81%84%E5%BC%8F%E6%B0%B4%E8%BB%8A/

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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