Sam Almaairgy
20th June 2014, 11:24
Hydro power plants can be classified by many different aspects, This classification is a according to the working of hydro power plants ,For Example they can by classified be the source of the water itself and by their construction or their turbine.
This classification helps us to understand variety of aspect of hydro power plants ,also understand how some types are connected to each other.
River Power Plants
Run-Of-River plants that’s what they called in some countries ,In this type of plants the natural and powerful flow and Elevation drop of the rivers is what it used through these kind of hydro plants to generate electricity.
River Power Plants are two types :
1-Plants Which are fed directly by a river.
2-Plants which are fed by diversion canal.
A diversion means the the plants aren't fed by the whole river but that part of a river which separated in a canal, This canal’s job is to feed the water from a river to the hydro power plants.
Because of the limitation of diversion canal it’s incapable of feeding hydro power plants of water as much as water the first type as the first type is fed from the river itself , so second type generates less electricity compered to first type.
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This classification helps us to understand variety of aspect of hydro power plants ,also understand how some types are connected to each other.
River Power Plants
Run-Of-River plants that’s what they called in some countries ,In this type of plants the natural and powerful flow and Elevation drop of the rivers is what it used through these kind of hydro plants to generate electricity.
River Power Plants are two types :
1-Plants Which are fed directly by a river.
2-Plants which are fed by diversion canal.
A diversion means the the plants aren't fed by the whole river but that part of a river which separated in a canal, This canal’s job is to feed the water from a river to the hydro power plants.
Because of the limitation of diversion canal it’s incapable of feeding hydro power plants of water as much as water the first type as the first type is fed from the river itself , so second type generates less electricity compered to first type.
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