AUTOMATIC SPIRAL TUBE WATER WHEEL

PUMPING AND POWER GENERATION

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AUTOMATIC SPIRAL TUBE WATER WHEEL
PUMPING AND POWER GENERATION
CONTENTS
 CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO TITLE

SYNOPSIS
LIST OF FIGURES
1 INTRODUCTION
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
3 DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENTS
3.1 TURBINE
3.2 ROTO SEAL COUPLING
3.3 DYNAMO AND BATTERY CALCULATION
4 DESIGN AND DRAWING
4.1 OVERALL DIAGRAM
5 WORKING PRINCIPLE
6 MERITS & DEMERITS
7 APPLICATIONS
8 LIST OF MATERIALS
9 COST ESTIMATION
10 CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
LIST OF FIGURES
 LIST OF FIGURES

Figure
number Title

1 OVERALL DIAGRAM
SYNOPSIS
 SYNOPSIS

Todays most prime need is to save conventional sources of energy. Among

them the one thing which is attracting our concentration is the concern of

degradation of fuel sources, the diesel and gasoline oils. Fuel is required in

daily life for many purposes like in vehicles, machine operations, etc. The

pump also requires fuel for its operation. Hence it is necessary to study the

design and working of pump for its further modification. It is found that the

spiral tube water wheel pump is an effective method for pumping water or

similar liquid without use of electric or fuel supply and also make energy

from the while spiral water pump rotation storing the energy to battery for

further purpose . This paper proposed model to obtain desired head and

discharge of water and power saving capability. Also it is totally eco-friendly

method.
 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION
 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

One of the best renewable energy source is namely called hydraulic power

and encourage maximum use of natural water sources especially rivers and

rivulets. The concept and technology involved in water wheel spiral pump

system is well-known for its low investment cost, almost nil operating cost,

low maintenance cost and also low skill required for its operation and

maintenance. The most valuable part is that the system works on hydraulic

power generated by the moving water through water wheel.

 CHAPTER II

LITERATURE REVIEW
 CHAPTER II

LITERATURE REVIEW

In some instance records of pre industrial technology can be source of

concepts which can be updated with modern materials and modified to be

utilized in todays technology transfer efforts. In recent research, peter tailer,

curator of the windfarm museum o Marthas vineyard, Massachusetts,

uncovered a two hundred and forty year old invention that has great potential

as a low cost, low technology pump for certain situations. This invention is

the spiral pump created 1746 by H.A a pewterer of Zurich, Switzerland.Wirtz

invented the spiral pump to provide water for a dye works just outside of

Zurich. Little is known about the inventor or the circumstances that led him

to create the pump. He probably was aware of the tubular form of the

Archimedes screw and the Persian wheel. Both of these pumps had existed

for hundreds of years. They were low lift rotating pumps which could not

raise water higher than the pump structures themselves. As Wirtz was a

pewterer, he would have possessed the metal working skills necessary to

form a tubular spiral. It is most likely that the dye works were located on the

Limmat River, a tributary of the Rhine, where the pump was powered by

either a water wheel or horse whim.

The Wirtz spiral pump was constructed so the end of the outside pipe coil

opened into a scoop. The inner coil led to the centre of the wheel where it

joined a rotary fitting at the axis of the machine. The wirtz pump was

constructed so that with each revolution of the spiral the scoop collected one

half the volume of the outer coil. As water was taken into the coils, each

column of the water transmitted the pressure through the air to the proceeding

column of water. In this way the water in each col was displaced to provide a

pressure head. A cumulative head was built up at the inner coils and was

conveyed through the rotary fitting to an ascending delivery pipe.

 CHAPTER III

DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENTS
 CHAPTER III

DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENTS

3.1 TURBINE
A turbine (from the Latin turbo, a vortex, related to the Greek , tyrb,

meaning "turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device that

extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. A turbine

is a turbo machine with at least one moving part called a rotor assembly,

which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the

blades so that they move and impart rotational energy to the rotor. Early

turbine examples are windmills and waterwheels.

Gas, steam, and water turbines have a casing around the blades that contains

and controls the working fluid. Credit for invention of the steam turbine is

given both to British engineer Sir Charles Parsons (18541931) for invention

of the reaction turbine, and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval (1845

1913) for invention of the impulse turbine. Modern steam turbines frequently

employ both reaction and impulse in the same unit, typically varying

the degree of reaction and impulse from the blade root to its periphery.

The word "turbine" was coined in 1822 by the French mining

engineer Claude Burdin from the Latin turbo, or vortex, in a memo, "Des
turbines hydrauliques our machines rotatoires grande vitesse", which he

submitted to the Acadmie royale des sciences in Paris. Benoit Fourneyron, a

former student of Claude Burdin, built the first practical water turbine.

3.2 ROTOSEAL COUPLING

A fluid coupling or hydraulic coupling is a hydrodynamic device used to

transmit rotating mechanical power. It has been used

in automobile transmissions as an alternative to a mechanical clutch. It also

has widespread application in marine and industrial machine drives, where

variable speed operation and controlled start-up without shock loading of the

power transmission system is essential.

The fluid coupling originates from the work of Dr. Hermann Fttinger, who

was the chief designer at the AG Vulcan Works in Stettin. His patents from

1905 covered both fluid couplings and torque converters.

Dr Bauer of the Vulcan-Werke collaborated with English engineer Harold

Sinclair of Hydraulic Coupling Patents Limited to adapt the Fttinger

coupling to vehicle transmission in an attempt to mitigate the lurching

Sinclair had experienced while riding on London buses during the 1920s

Following Sinclair's discussions with the London General Omnibus

Company begun in October 1926 and trials on an Associated Daimler bus

chassis Percy Martin of Daimler decided to apply the principle to the Daimler

group's private cars.

During 1930 The Daimler Company of Coventry, England began to introduce

a transmission system using a fluid coupling and Wilson self-changing

gearbox for buses and their flagship cars. By 1933 the system was used in all

new Daimler Lanchester and BSA vehicles produced by the group from

heavy commercial vehicles to small cars. It was soon extended to Daimler's

military vehicles. These couplings are described as constructed under Vulcan-

Sinclair and Daimler patents.

In 1939 General Motors Corporation introduced Hydramatic drive, the first

fully automatic automotive transmission system installed in a mass-produced

automobile. The Hydromantic employed a fluid coupling.

3.3 DYNAMO AND BATTERY CALCULATION

DYNAMO

Speed = 1500 rpm

Volts = 12 v

Watts = 18 w

If the dynamo rotates at 1500 rpm it will produce 6- 8 v

BATTERY CALCULATION:

BAH /CI = 8 ah/420ma

= 19 hrs

To find the Current

Watt = 18 w

Volt = 12v

Current =?

P= V x I

18 =12 x I

I = 18/12

= 1.5 AMPS

BATTERY USAGE WITH 1.5 AMPS

BAH /I

8/1.5 = 5.3 hrs

 CHAPTER IV

DESIGN AND DRAWING

 CHAPTER IV

DESIGN AND DRAWING

4.1. DRAWING FOR SPIAL WATER PUMP

 CHAPTER V

WORKING PRINCIPLE
 CHAPTER V

WORKING PRINCIPLE

As the wheel revolves each paddle in turn becomes submerged in the

water passing around it. Thus once per revolution each water

collector also dips into the water. Just after the water collector

passes the horizontal position and begins to rise, it takes in a "gulp"

of water - expelling air previously contained within it. When the

collector rises out of the canal it is full of water. This charge of

water runs back into the first spiral of the tube pump and is followed

by a charge of air. As it dips into the water, the collector picks up

another charge of water and the cycle is repeated. As the wheel

revolves a pressure head develops within each coil of the spiral

tube, water in the ascending coils being higher than in the

descending coils (see diagram). Cores of water contained in the

spiral compress air between them as they travel around the tube and

both water and air are expelled under pressure into the hollow axle

of the wheel. The water which is under pressure sure rises up the

pipe and this process is assisted by the compressed air which lifts

water above it in its attempt to escape through the pipe. The water is
discharged into the header tank in a series of bursts jets of water

being followed by jets of compressed air.

The height to which water can be pumped depends on the number of coils in

the spiral tube. As an example - a 2 meter diameter wheel can pump water up

to approximately 8 meters with 6 complete coils, the same wheel being able

to pump up to 6 meters with 4 complete coils and 4 meters with 2 complete

coils. For larger wheels where the diameter of the coils is nearly the same as

the diameter of the wheel an approximation can be made by multiplying the

diameter of the wheel by the number of coils. A 4 meter diameter wheel with

3 coils should be able to pump water up to a height of 12 meters. Te volume

of water pumped depends on the capacity of the spiral tube pump. Naturally,

the wheel will only pump water if there is sufficient energy in the canal to

turn the wheel against the weight of water held in the rising spiral tube and

this same power also generated from the spiral coil .The energies are stored

directly to the battery for power saving method .These two capabilities are

happening spiral tube of the continuous function .Both method working

without any external energy from outside of the function.

The head of water in each spiral varies through a cycle, with optimum

pressures being developed as the water load in the rising main reaches a

maximum. The volume of water pumped also depends on the speed of the
wheel as well as the capacity of the spiral tube. The wheel should not move

too fast however, as the effects of centrifugal force will have an influence and

may carry water over the head of the wheel, and break the essential air lock

between each core of water. The wheel could not pump water at all through

the spiral tube if the air locks did not exist. It is possible to fit a single

collector pipe and connect this to the axle through a single spiral tube. More

water can be pumped however, when two collectors are fitted to two spiral

tubes The exact arrangements may depend on whether more water is required

at a small head or less water is required but at a greater head

ADVANTAGES:

It is a Beautiful piece of alternative Technology.

Spiral water pumps can provide water up to 30 meters higher than the
river due to the system of compressed air in the spiral tubes.
The pumps provide water without the need for fuel or Electricity
which is very useful for poor rural communities.
Once established the pumps do not require any further investments.
The water pumps are easily constructed with flexible PVC tubing.
Overall the pump can be easily constructed with available local
resources.
Advanced power saving method following save energy to battery
system and it will help to most useful for further processes.