An overview of research and energy evolution for small hydropower in Europe

Manzano‐Agugliaro, Francisco; Taher, Myriam; Zapata-Sierra, Antonio; Juaidi, Adel; Montoya, Francisco G.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.013

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“…One of the old and matured renewable energy technologies that have been widely installed all around the world is hydropower plants (HPPs). This type of power plant could be scaled up to several MWs, free of air pollutants and has low maintenance cost [9]. Construction of a new hydropower plant (HPP) should be in consideration of some perspectives, including the economic point of view [10].…”

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Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Trash Remover for Open Channel Waterway for Micro Hydropower Plant Application

Yunus¹,

Mulyadi²,

Apollo³

2019

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Mitigation of catastrophic impacts of exhausted pollutants from conventional based power plants can be performed by extensively using renewable energy-based power plants. One of the promising renewable energy-based power plants in already matured technology is hydropower. However, large scale hydropower should be located on an appropriate site and is not economically effective for isolated and remote small communities. Micro-hydropower plants (MHPPs) can applied to fulfill the power requirements of such communities due to its inexpensive capital and low maintenance cost. Normally, MHPPs projects are finalized by civil construction to powerhouse. A simple trash filter is usually located before the intake of the penstock. This simple trash filter usually causes a problem related to trash collection that blocks the water debit into the penstock intake. This low capacity might cause the reduction of turbine's rotation, which in turn downgrade the voltage and frequency. Low voltage and frequency might harm consumers. In this paper, a new control mechanism based on Arduino Mega is introduced for automatic trash removal.

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confidence: 99%

Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Trash Remover for Open Channel Waterway for Micro Hydropower Plant Application

Yunus¹,

Mulyadi²,

Apollo³

2019

EPI-IJE

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“…The main renewable energy sources and their energy conversion or usage forms are solar (photovoltaic and thermal power generation and water heaters), wind (power generation, wind generators, windmills, and water pumps), modern biomass (heat and power generation, pyrolysis, gasification, and anaerobic digestion), geothermal (urban heating, power generation, hydrothermal, and hot dry rock), ocean (tidal and wave power). Hydropower in rivers is often included in the group of renewable energies, although it often requires large infrastructures (dams) with negative environmental effects at a local level [2]. While the technological advances in hydropower generation have not been very significant in the last years given the maturity of this technology, other renewable energies, such as photovoltaic, wind, and biomass have had a considerable development thanks to the technological innovation [3].…”

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Analysis of Research Topics and Scientific Collaborations in Renewable Energy Using Community Detection

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Renewable energy is a key breakthrough to mitigate carbon emissions, to reduce global warming, and for the creation of sustainable societies. Renewable energy is a broad area that includes different technologies that are being continuously improved to increase their efficiency and reduce cost. Many papers have been published in the last decades dealing with renewable energy issues, which is why it becomes important to determine the main topics of research, the main publications devoted to publishing scientific papers about renewable energy, and how researchers collaborate in this discipline. With these aims in view, this paper presents an advanced method for analysing publications about renewable energy and scientific collaboration networks in this field. This method is based on automatically obtaining bibliographic data from scientific publications through the use of the Scopus Database API Interface, which are then analysed using community detection algorithms and graph visualization software. The results obtained show that it is possible to determine the main areas of research activity as well as to identify the structures of the collaboration network in the field of renewable energy.

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“…More recently, hydropower has contributed to the growth of the emerging BRICS economies. Various European countries including Scotland, Germany, and countries around the Alps, in Fennoscandia, and in the Baltic regions [2][3][4][5][6][7] are developing hydropower, and a global boom in dam construction is anticipated [8].…”

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Environmental Restoration in Hydropower Development—Lessons from Norway

2018

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Hydropower is expanding globally and is regarded a key measure for mitigating climate change, but it also results in major environmental degradation, both at local scale and more widely. We can learn lessons about how restoration can be used to alleviate these problems from failures and successes in countries with a long history of hydropower development, such as Norway. Here, hydropower projects grew larger over time, and in the 1960s, the emerging environmentalist movement started to challenge hydropower developments because of their negative impacts on the environment. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate then appointed a landscape architect who became very influential, particularly due to his skills in aesthetics and photo documentation. He developed principles for designing self-sustaining environments which he called "living nature", and in particular proposed methods of restoring barren, unattractive, alpine spoil heaps. Later, restoration methods and goals have changed in response to new insights and the changing goals of ecological restoration. Here, we present current best practice for the alpine biome and sum up general lessons in three points: restoration can represent a sustainable, 'third way' in the conflict between conservation and development; including a wider group of professionals may improve restoration goals and methods, and effective use of visual communication can be a good way of gaining support for new restoration principles.

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An overview of research and energy evolution for small hydropower in Europe

Cited by 101 publications

References 66 publications

Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Trash Remover for Open Channel Waterway for Micro Hydropower Plant Application

Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Trash Remover for Open Channel Waterway for Micro Hydropower Plant Application

Analysis of Research Topics and Scientific Collaborations in Renewable Energy Using Community Detection

Environmental Restoration in Hydropower Development—Lessons from Norway

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