Seminar

On

Underwater Windmill

Submitted To: Submitted By:

Dr. Raj Kumar Vi k a s D h a y a l
Dr. R. K. Garg Roll No.- 17001504024
M . Te c h . 2 n d Ye a r
 CONTENT
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 WHAT IS IT ???
 NAME JUSTIFICATION
 MAIN PARTS
 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
 DESIGN AND CHALLENGES
 GLOBAL RESOURCES
 IMPLEMENTATION
 MAINTENANCE OF UNDERWATER WINDMILL
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 FUTURE SCOPE
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

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 What is it ???
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 An Underwater windmill like a device that extracts power from the tides. Renewable
energy technologies are becoming an increasingly favorable alternative to
conventional energy sources to assuage fossil fuel related issues. Tidal energy offers a
vast and reliable energy source.

 This technology is similar to wind energy technology, with the rotor blades driven not
by wind power but by tidal currents.

 The gravitational pull of the moon produces a swift tidal current, which spins the long
blades of the turbine . Which in turn produces electricity via different parts of
underwater windmill .

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 Why it is called as “underwater windmill” ?

 "Basically it's like putting a windmill in the water," said Bjorn Bekken, a project manager for
Hammerfest Strom.

 Or as it’s looking like a wind mill & are installed on the ocean floor and large river bed , that
means these are under the water.

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 Turbines

 Gearbox

 Generator

 Cables

 support

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 In simple, a underwater windmill consists of a number of blades mounted on a hub (together

known as the rotor), a gearbox, and a generator.

 The hydrodynamic effect of the flowing water past the blades causes the rotor to rotate, thus
turning the generator to which the rotor is connected via a gearbox.

 The gearbox is used to convert the rotational speed of the rotor shaft to the desired output speed of
the generator shaft.

 The electricity generated is transmitted to land through cables.

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There have been many challenges to make tidal turbines commercially viable, among these
has been the need to place the systems in the right locations where the water depth, current
flow patterns and distance to the grid make a project economically viable, and to make units
efficient and easy to maintain.

*** Designing of Underwater Windmill is similar to that of normal Windmills.

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 The first "windmill" was installed in Northern Ireland in 2008.

 The company Atlantis Resources is to install a 50MW tidal farm in the Gulf of Kutch on
India's west coast, with construction starting early in 2012.The facility could be expanded to
deliver more than 200MW.

 Projections indicate that the cost of the initial 50 farm consist of 50MW turbines - will come in
at about $150m.

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 Maintenance of the device while it is submerged in fast currents would be exceptionally

challenging and expensive

 any maintenance or repairs can be done after raising rotor and drive train (i.e. gearbox and
generator) above the surface

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 Tidal energy is completely renewable.

 Tidal energy produces no emissions.

 Hidden beneath the water.

 Have lesser impact on the environment

 Low running cost

 Long lifetime with little maintenance

 Reduces the dependence upon fossil fuels

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 The initial cost is too high

 Very difficult to install

 The blade must be coated to avoid corrosion

 Damages habitat up to 500km away

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 MCT is now concerned not only with ensuring that its SeaGen type device is installed in
other locations, but also with the conception of new forms of this technology that are both
more powerful (to gain further economies of scale) and viable in shallower and in deeper
water than the 20 m to 40 m range that suits the current design.

 In the face of Global Warming and Peak Oil, there is an urgent need to prove and bring
on stream new clean energy technologies such as tidal turbines.

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We believe that the intense and predictable marine current resource offers the possibility of
clean energy at a cost that will ultimately be competitive not only with the other renewables, but
in the long run we believe we can compete head on with most forms of fossil fuelled power
generation at present-day costs.

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 http://www.marineturbines.com

 http://www.renewable-solarenergy.com/tidal-energy

 International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2007.

 Prandle, D., Simple theory for designing tidal power schemes, Advances in Water Resources,
1984.

 Sheth, S. and M. Shahidehpour, Tidal Energy in Electric Power Systems, in Power Engineering
Society General Meeting, 2005.

 http://www.tidalenergyltd.com/technology

 www.google.com

 www.wikipedia.com

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 Thank You

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