HydroVenturi technology increases hydropower output
Upon installation of Hydroventuri’s proven system not only can downstream water quality be improved but also renewable power output from existing plant can be potentially increased as a result of:
- increasing the amount of residual head recovery available that would otherwise be required for aeration on hydropower discharges, through enabling lower tailrace levels or the removal of downstream aeration weirs;
- improved overall efficiency of residual head recovery and conversion;
- better utilization of available water resource that would otherwise be required to be ‘spilled’ rather than passed through the turbines, in order to aerate and increase downstream temperature;
- a much broader operating regime being potentially enabled during those periods when temperature differentials between the surface and deeper waters of the forebay are problematic to maintaining downstream water quality.
Uniquely, and when coupled with an air driven turbine system, HydroVenturi has also demonstrated that it’s system can generate electricity in both a commercially advantageous and environmentally benign way; thus also opening up the opportunity to exploit the significant global potential of the ultra low-head hydro (2- 5m range) market with a truly disruptive product offering.
