Owen Smith's posts

yes could some one elaberate on that. whats a electrolizer,? sounds interesting to be able to produce hydrogen from water?and what would the set up cost be .maybe cheaper than turbine or large turbine, interesting thx for imput more imformation please.

yes i wondered about that.does the lenght of pipe contribute to pressure or is totally the head.

thx again for advise will work towards seeking a professionals apinnion. couple of years away yet tho still working on shed.how would u think getting the most out of a river ;dambing or mill race ,is it pressure or flow when theres not much fall. thx

yes the average depth of the river is 2 feet x 20 ft wide.yes it is in its planning stage and no electricity is on property. idont know if u can find gauge in another country ,any way its weka weka river in weka weka far north northland which is about 280 km north of auckland in new zealand.also the slowest flow of the river could be as slow as 2.5 ft per second.
not sure exactly how much power i need .basicly
powder coating oven approx 24 cubic metres a brick kiln approx 7 cubic metres lighting power for a three bdrm house and lighting power for a 30x15 meter shed with verious other type three phase machines.basicly working on a average sized factory around auckland which seems to be on average around 100 kw.
hope i havnt left anything out .thx very much for all your work.appreciate it very much thank you. tum.

to oso having trouble with calcs. ive worked out that the cross section of  the lowest point of
river is 2 ft deep x 30 ft wide. and has a flow
of 5ft a second.do u think thats suffisant,to generate 100kw.thank you.

um yes thank u.for ur reply gratefull thank you. i cant get or dont know how to use
pdl on my computer is some thing needed to download?. any way yes i do need 100 kw electric kiln heaters powder coating oven and house hold.
river has not much head but quit amount of flow.
i was thinking a wider wheel perhaps for more torque.but then maybe just a way bigger wheel like 8 feet with a lot of torque and then just gear it to run turbine. ive got the volume i think
thanks for ur imput. yours tum.

i wish to run a turbine 100 kw off a approx 30m wide river with out bloking the whole river. also dont want to use batterys .the problem seems to be there is almost no head on the river .Q could someone advise me on how to calculate the volume of water to run turbine. thx