Research Article

Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance

Volume: 11 Number: 2 March 24, 2025
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Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance

Abstract

The water vortex power plant has become of more interest to researchers due to its important role in renewable energy technologies, allowing it to operate with low heads and flow rates. The novelty of the work compared to previous efforts is that a group of variables studied together that have an important role in increasing the efficiency of the system, such as the increase and decrease in the number of blades, the effect of weight through changing the type of metal, and the height of the turbine from the bottom of the basin. Therefore, this article evaluated the performance of the water vortex plant, in which several variables were studied: the number of turbine blades, turbine weight, and turbine height from the basin floor where the water vortex system was designed and tested by using four turbines: one of them had six blades and another four blade are made from carbon steel alloy and two other turbines, which one of them six blades the other four blades are made of galvanized alloy. Practical tests also concluded that the four-blade turbine, made of carbon steel alloy, achieved an efficiency of up to 69%. The weight of the turbine plays a vital role in determining the system efficiency when a six-blade turbine made of carbon alloy with a higher weight and a height of 3 cm reaches 64% as the maximum efficiency. Also, the experiments found that the highest efficiency reaches the turbine at a height of 3 cm from the bottom of the basin after different heights were chosen for the turbines used from the bottom, which included (1.5 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm, 8 cm).

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Hussein Muhammad Zainal This is me
0009-0005-8374-0913
Iraq

Publication Date

March 24, 2025

Submission Date

July 19, 2024

Acceptance Date

October 22, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2025 Volume: 11 Number: 2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.14744/thermal.0000897

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA54JP82GC

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RIS / Bibtex
APA
Zainal, H. M., & Ahmed, O. K. (2025). Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance. Journal of Thermal Engineering, 11(2), 314-330. https://doi.org/10.14744/thermal.0000897
AMA
1.Zainal HM, Ahmed OK. Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance. Journal of Thermal Engineering. 2025;11(2):314-330. doi:10.14744/thermal.0000897
Chicago
Zainal, Hussein Muhammad, and Omer K. Ahmed. 2025. “Effect of the Design Variables on the Vortex Water Turbine Performance”. Journal of Thermal Engineering 11 (2): 314-30. https://doi.org/10.14744/thermal.0000897.
EndNote
Zainal HM, Ahmed OK (March 1, 2025) Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance. Journal of Thermal Engineering 11 2 314–330.
IEEE
[1]H. M. Zainal and O. K. Ahmed, “Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance”, Journal of Thermal Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 314–330, Mar. 2025, doi: 10.14744/thermal.0000897.
ISNAD
Zainal, Hussein Muhammad - Ahmed, Omer K. “Effect of the Design Variables on the Vortex Water Turbine Performance”. Journal of Thermal Engineering 11/2 (March 1, 2025): 314-330. https://doi.org/10.14744/thermal.0000897.
JAMA
1.Zainal HM, Ahmed OK. Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance. Journal of Thermal Engineering. 2025;11:314–330.
MLA
Zainal, Hussein Muhammad, and Omer K. Ahmed. “Effect of the Design Variables on the Vortex Water Turbine Performance”. Journal of Thermal Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, Mar. 2025, pp. 314-30, doi:10.14744/thermal.0000897.
Vancouver
1.Hussein Muhammad Zainal, Omer K. Ahmed. Effect of the design variables on the vortex water turbine performance. Journal of Thermal Engineering. 2025 Mar. 1;11(2):314-30. doi:10.14744/thermal.0000897

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