Micro Hydro Power Plant using Sewage Water of Hayatabad Peshawar

Hydro power is one of the major sources of electric power. The latest trend of hydro power generation is mostly by micro hydropower. These plants are low cost, easy to install and ecofreindly. Sewage water can be one source of micro hydro power plants where low head screw turbines can be used to generate power. A single screw turbine to the sewage line produces power up to 1963 watts. While an increase in the number of turbines, head and flow rate results in a linear increase in power generation. The turbine is designed using SolidWorks and simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK considering all the geometrical parameters of the power plant site. This paper proposes a sewage water based micro hydro power plant that has been physically implemented on the sewage water of the Hayatabad Peshawar region of Khyber Pakhutnkhwa. The paper also discusses the integration of microhydro power plants with the existing national grid.