Experimental Study of Darrieus Water Turbine Two Blade Different Configuration and Hybrid Turbine for Application of an Irrigation Flow

Abstract

Rice fields are areas that have irrigation and rarely have lighting; this is dangerous at night because wild animals such as snakes are difficult to see. Irrigation has low-scale water energy with low-head conditions; hence the Darrieus and Savonius type water turbines are considered suitable for this condition. However, until now, there has been no comprehensive study of the feasibility of the two turbines for irrigation flow. Hence this study presents the experimental work to explore the performances of the Darrieus turbines Two Blade Different Configuration and hybrid Darrieus-Savonius turbine for irrigation flow. Accordingly, four configurations of the water turbines used in these investigations, i.e., Darrieus turbine with two different blades shape the aerofoil of NACA 0016 and NACA 0020, single Darrieus turbine with the aerofoil NACA 0016, single Savonius turbine, and hybrid Darrieus-Savonius turbine with the aerofoil NACA 0016. The mechanical power of the water turbines was measured using a rope brake dynamometer. The results show that the single Darrieus turbine with the aerofoil NACA 0016 has higher tip speed ratios but a lower torque coefficient than the single Savonius turbine. Then, hybrid Darrieus-Savonius turbine with the aerofoil NACA 0016, the maximum power coefficient lower than other. Furthermore, the single Savonius turbine has the highest power coefficient than the other. And the single Darrieus turbine with the aerofoil NACA 0016 shows that the turbine has higher torque than others. Thus, based on the results, a single Darrieus turbine with the aerofoil NACA 0016 is recommended for application.