TURBINES DON’T DECREASE POWER OF RUNNING WATER

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TURBINES DON’T DECREASE POWER OF RUNNING WATER
Dev Bahadur Dongol, Ph.D.
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the following video shows the method of installing turbines in series




Considering the basic fluid properties of water and the characteristics of the Gravitational Force of the Earth (‘g’), we can run many turbines with water just enough to run only one turbine because, turbines installed in series along the unbroken running water column don’t (rather can’t) decrease the power of running water. So also the performance of each individual turbine is not decreased.

Gravitational force of the Earth is unlimited, uninterrupted, never exhausted, never used up, always acting all the time on every possible mass to smallest particles continuously. The force cannot be shielded, as magnetic force and light can be blocked.

Water is incompressible. It takes the shape of its container. It transmits exerted pressure equally in all direction.

Still water column exerts pressure according to the height of its column. The greater the height of the water-column the higher is the pressure. We can’t harness the power of water when it is standing still. But we calculate the power by using the height as one of the parameters. Then we decide the size of the water-supplying pipe for the flow of water available. But we need to run water to tap its energy. The running water column behaves totally different from the water column that is standing still.

The pressure due to running water column does not depend upon the height. The pressure through out the running water column is uniform. The flow of water is also uniform at any given point of the running water column. The same amount of water entered comes out from the out let. The velocity of water through out the water column is also uniform. So the power of water available at any point of the entire unbroken water column is also constant while water is running.

Existing Practice

Water is allowed to fall down from a desired height to rotate the runner of a turbine (The only purpose of dropping water), which in turn rotates a device inside the generator that can generate electricity. The only power used actually is the Gravitational Force of the Earth. If there are more than one turbine, then water is supplied by separate pipes independently, one pipe to each turbine. So we need a lot of water to maintain constant flow of water. It may be called Parallel system of supplying water to turbines. This is the universal practice nowadays. Nothing is consumed. Water comes out as it was before entering the turbines. The force due to Gravity is also not decreased. Only water is moved from a greater height to a lower height due to the continuous pulling force of the Earth.


The Breakthrough - Changing Water Supply System

The only source of energy used to run turbines in the hydropower plants is the ‘g’ (the gravitational force of the Earth). Installed turbines allow the same flow of water as it flows before they are installed. Presences of one or more or none turbines in the same water supplying pipe with unbroken running water column makes no difference in the rate of discharged water whatsoever. Therefore the turbines don’t decrease power of running water. This is so because of the behaviors of the gravitational force of the Earth. So multifold more electricity is possible by installing a number of turbines in series along a single penstock pipe

Pressure due to the entire column of water is transmitted in all directions equally, a fluid property, here in this case only in the direction of the flowing water. But it is not so with a column of water that is standing still. So we cannot harness electricity if the water is not running.

When all the turbines installed in series are eventually in full motion with the same velocity as that of flowing water- due to the action of ‘g’, the pressure effect of the is also maintained uniform through out the entire column of water that is flowing. It is not reduced because of the constant action of ‘g’. It should be so for a given penstock pipe, since the same height of the water column is there, the velocity and the volume of water discharged are also uniform through out the entire column of the running water inside the pipe, as ‘g’ is acting all the time, continuously and uninterrupted on every molecule of water. So no factors change before and after one or more turbines are installed.

Weight of the water column flowing down below the turbine will also have the pressure effect as the weight of the water column above the turbine will have. It will be the ‘PULLING’ force (it is not available with the water column that is standing still); whereas the water column above the given point will behave as the ‘PUSHING’ force due to its weight; both the water columns due to their respective weights will act in the same direction. So the whole column of water acts uniformly as one single force at any point between two ends.

The factors of power for a given column of flowing water (volume of water, force of gravity, the height of water column, and the velocity of water combined) are constant until running water is available. It is the only water that can become exhausted or stopped, when one of the factors becomes zero the energy available will also be zero. Turbines are not made to reduce the flow of water. Running water down through a pipe is just creating a favorable condition to canalize unlimited gravitational force of the Earth to harness type of energy we need.

Conversion of parallel to series water supply system in places where two or more generators are already installed under one powerhouse scheme also can be done very easily and quickly. It is just planning and plumber’s job.