Archimedes screw pumps turbines and generators gets Royal Approval

 

Archimedes hydro screw industry gets Royal endorsement

Windsor castle announced to the BBC News that two Archimedes screw generators are going to provide the Queens residence its own Hydroelectricity . Making it the first royal palace to adopted the Government Feed In Tariffs (FITs) that pays individuals to generate Renewable Energy.

Since the introduction of feed in tariffs FITs In March 2010 for Hydro Power: the Hydro Energy and especially the Hydro Screw has had a much needed BOOM.

Further BOOST has been received  from some high profile Archimedes screw installations, like the installation of two Archimedean screw turbines being installed at the QUEEN’S  favorite residence at Windsor castle, and the completion of the Tees barrage  world’s first combined screw pumps and screw generators at one of the 2012 London Olympic venues.

The Archimedes screw turbine industry Is dominated by manufacturers based in Holland and Germany; however, there are twice as many manufactures of Archimedes screw pumps that are used in the waste water and Sewage industry through out the world. These same companies are dominating the screw generator industry or working towards converting their screw pumps in to screw turbines, as it happens, the turbine is just the reverse of the Archimedean screw pump.

With all this buzz and competition, gradually some new and exciting new hydrodynamic screw products and new manufactures have joined the race, and some with

Innovative and exciting ideas that will change the hydro screw industry

Namely:

• Plastic and composite material Archimedes screws are the new comers

• In the industry that uses reinforced plastic body and a steel trough tube or shaft. The advantages are that it is rust proof  and light but cost more then the traditional steel Archimedean screws with limited range of up to 10 KW
• There is one UK Company that has come up with

• A revolutionary flat pack Archimedes screw system that is up to 70 % cheaper

• Than the cost of a traditional Archimedes Generator. Their hydro screw generator is designed and specified in UK but the components are sourced from the emerging economies throughout the world and assembled on site.

• Strategic sourcing, flat pack transportation and low profit margins are the main contributing factors in the cost reduction

• And these machines are huge, bulky and heavy says Bob the managing director of Pump and Generator.

Pump and Generator are selling their 50 KWatt system for as little as £29,777.00.

Due to huge demand and high volume of calls, they are only excepting email enquiries, to contact them click here.

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Pershore Hydropower scheme wins district council backing

By Daniel Fawbert Mills

   A HYDROPOWER project on the River Avon at Pershore has gained the district council’s support and a £300,000 loan backed by the taxpayer.

Local landowner Charles Hudson’s proposal to build a water powered generator at Pershore weir has won over councillors at Wychavon where the executive board agreed to recommend a loan to help finance the project.

The £300,000 loan would be provided with an interest rate of 10 per cent a year, and with a life of 10 years.

Mr Hudson said: “Reducing our carbon footprint is a flag Wychavon wants to fly, plus the funding agreement would help provide an income for the Pershore Market Town initiative which needs £30,000 a year.

“Of course there will also be the chance for the council to buy green energy cheaper than it is available on the energy market.”

The hydropower project is estimated to cost £1 million to build and would generate enough power for more than 200 homes.

Once finished, Mr Hudson intends to sell the electricity commercially, rather than to National Grid, and one potential customer could be Wychavon Leisure Centre which could use about 90 per cent of the power generated.

The design incorporates an ‘Archimedes screw’ style generator that would be located on the east bank and includes a ‘fish pass’ that could be used by canoeists and kayakers.

Wychavon officers have suggested the area might even be able to accommodate a much larger water leisure facility, or use funding available through the Olympic games to set up Pershore as “a vibrant water sport centre”.

Council leader Paul Middlebrough said: “It’s a fantastic idea and we’re keen to move forward, which is why we want to provide this loan of £300,000. It’s a commercial opportunity, and Mr Hudson is also putting his money into the project.”

 

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Modern Archimedes Screw

Modern Archimedes Hydro Screw

Archimedean screw turbines

The modern Archimedes hydro screw is used as Archimedes screw pumps and Archimedean screw turbines or 

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Archimedes screw pumps can lift large volumes of water against low heads, and so is popular for use in drainage systems in flat countries like The Netherlands.

Archimedes screws are popular in sewage treatment and waste water plants because they cope well with varying rates of flow and with suspended solids.

 

Basically, the Archimedes screw consists of an inclined shaft to which one or more helically wound blades are attached. This spiral is fitted into a semi-circular or circular casing called the trough. When the screw is rotated, the water confined between two successive blades, the wall of the casing, and the shaft is lifted.

Archimedes screw pumps and generators at Tees Barrage London

               Figure above of an Archimedean hydro screw pump, open screw type 

 

Archimedes screw Turbine/Archimedean Screw Generator

 

Is the Reverse action of Archimedes hydro screw pump

If water is poured into the top of an Archimedes screw, it will force the screw to rotate. The rotating shaft can then be used to drive an electric generator. Archimedes screw Turbine installation has the same benefits as using the screw for pumping: the ability to handle very dirty water and widely varying rates of flow at high efficiency. There are tens of reverse Archimedes screw micro hydro schemes operating in England.

 

The Archimedes hydro screw generator is Fish Friendly and safe for fish to pass through and can serve as a fish ladder.

 

The Archimedes screw generator is safe for fish to pass through

 

Image above shows a typical setup of Archimedean Screw Turbines or Archimedes Hydro Screw Generator

Archimedes Screw Generator

Archimedes Screw Generator

 

The Archimedes screw generator is safe for fish to pass through

Archimedes Screw Generator produces Electricity at low-head Hydro sites

A centuries-old technology is being used today to generate electricity. The design of the Archimedes screw is attributed to Archimedes of Syracuse in the 3rd century BC. Originally, this technology was used to lift water up an incline. Recently, scientists determined that it is possible to produce electricity by letting water drop through the screw.

 

The screw generator consists of a central shaft with a helical blade, like a screw. Allowing water to flow downward through the screw causes it to rotate. This rotation can be used to produce electricity using a generator. The screw generator is safe for fish to pass through and can serve as a fish ladder. The screw generator can be used in locations with relatively low head (up to 10 meters) and requires minimal maintenance.

 

There are many companies that manufacture the Archimedes screw generator. Units are available in capacities up to 500 kW.

 

The Archimedes hydro screw  is being used in several applications in UK and Europe,due to its fish friendly qualities .

In May 2010, a contract was awarded to supply and install four Archimedes screw generators at a training camp location for the London 2012 Olympic Games. This work is part of an ongoing upgrade of the Tees Barrage whitewater course. The screws will pump water to provide the course. When not needed, the screws can use the river water to generate electricity.

 

Four Archimedes screw generatorsfor the London 2012 Olympic Games

Artist’s impression of the Archimedes Screw Generator on the completed upgraded course

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What is Hydrodynamic Screw

What is Hydrodynamic Screw?

Hydrodynamic screw is the Archimedes screw pump in reverse, work by making use of the energy of moving, flowing, or falling water to spin and rotate the Archimedes screw. The giant Archimedean screw is linked to a power generator which harnesses this hydro energy. it works in a very similar way to turbines and water wheels that can also be found in hydro dams or along water ways.

 

The Archimedean screw or Archimedes screw pump

the water extraction screw or screw pump has been known since ancient times. Actually it is very well known in water technology and most commonly used in the waste water and sewage industry.

 

What is new is the application of Hydrodynamic screws

which by an inversion of the energy flow in its operation, turns the Archimedes’ screw trough pump into a hydro power generator for the extraction of renewable hydro energy.

 

A hydro power generating facility makes use of the energy difference between two different levels of flowing water

by transferring the water from natural bed of the stream at the higher level to the bed at the lower level and effectively extracting its potential hydro energy, which is then made available at the rotor shaft forhydroelectric or mechanical use.

 

Hydro-dynamic screw is Eco friendly through the utilization of this hydro energy

which is left unused by nature, an energy source is tapped; with Hydro-dynamic screws help a part of our energy requirements can be covered using this renewable energy source, which would otherwise have to be covered by fossil fuels.

 

Image of hydrodynamic screw with descriptions of main components

 

The excellent properties of the hydro-dynamic screws are

its minimal disturbance to the environment, the environ-mental friendliness and long service life. The large openings in the screw flights mean that where screw generators are used in applications in which fish could be present this does not present a problem to the fish as they simply swim through slowly revolving hydrodynamic screw. They are fish friendly Indeed screw pumps which are effectively screw generators in reverse have been used as fish ladders.

 

Screw generators can be utilized anywhere where suitable flows and heads exist

other potential uses include:

• Rivers
• Cooling water outlets from power stations
• Industrial process water (for example paper or steel mills)

 

A capacity of 0.1 to 5.5 cubic meter per second and a head up to 10 m, enables it to utilize hydrodynamic powers which are ruled out for turbines for reasons of cost.

 

The rotation rates of hydrodynamic screws are low

they lay between 80 min-1 for small screws and 20 min-1 for large screws.

 

With hydrodynamic screws, even minimum hydrodynamic potentials at powers from 1 kW can be made use of economically.

 

With hydrodynamic screws, fine screening installations for protecting against floating objects and fishes, needed for turbines, are not necessary.

 

Energy losses leading to a decrease in head are also done away with, likewise losses in flow rate from the screening installations, both of which can have a detrimental effect on the efficiency of the facility.

 

The constructional effort required for a hydrodynamic screw is small

compared to that required for a turbine. If the compact version of a hydrodynamic screw (hydrodynamic screw + trough + power take-off unit combined as a single unit) is used, the constructional effort can be further reduced.

 

Small hydrodynamic facilities hide an immense potential for extracting natural energy from water power

In the process, the “water” is only used and not used up. Another positive aspect is that the water becomes enriched with oxygen, which in turn improves the quality of the water downstream.

 

Hydrodynamic screws can be optimally introduced into the environment with little effort and without disturbing effects.

 

With this new product application the hydrodynamic screw a new model has been added to the classical water power generators, the waterwheels and turbines.

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Archimedes screw or Archimedes screw pump

Archimedes screw or Archimedes screw pump

Cross section of an Archimedes screw pump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The basic principle of an Archimedes screw

Is shown in the diagram above.  If the handle at the top was turned in an anti-clockwise direction it would draw the water up from the lower level to the top.

 

The Archimedes screw pump is an example of simple machine

Application that has survived the ages to fit diverse products in the modern era. Historians date the first evidence of Archimedes screw pumps being used hundreds of years before Archimedes was born, and it is so-named because tradition suggests it was invented by Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC) natural philosopher and scientist. However, archaeological evidence has led others to posit its earlier invention in Assyria (modern day Iraq) or Egypt; Archimedes simply improved upon an earlier design.

 

Archimedes screw pumps represent

The combination of two common simple machines: the inclined plane and the cylinder. The plane wraps around the cylinder, making a common screw shape. The rotation of the Archimedes screw forces liquid or small materials upwards. This movement is intended to process liquid, irrigate, move corn, and many other applications.

 

The lowest portion of the screw pump just dips into the water

And as the cylinder is turned a small quantity of water is scooped up. The inclination of the cylinder is such that at the next revolution the water is raised above the next thread, whilst the lowest thread scoops up another quantity. The successive revolutions, therefore, raise the water thread by thread until it emerges at the top of the cylinder.

Archimedes hydro screw pump

Is believed to have been invented to remove water from the hold of Greek navy ships when Archimedes worked for his cuisine the king. The revolving screw-shaped blade inside an angled pipe was turned by a handle, scooping up water and carrying it to the top.

The Archimedes screw pump had been widely used to pump water from low-lying rivers for crop irrigation since Egyptian pharos times, as it is still used to date in the Nile delta in Egypt.

Use of Archimedes screw hydro pumps

Declined after the invention of steam power, combustion engine and electricity. Until then about a quarter of the word population used the Archimedes screw pump before the industrial revolution.

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What did Archimedes do

What did Archimedes do?

What did Archimedes do?

Archimedes was one of the greatest mathematician, engineer,physicist and scientist of ancient Greek civilization. He was Born about 287 B.C. in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), Archimedes other scientific discoveries were, and the hydrostatic principle, laws of flotation or Archimedes’ principle. His Archimedes screw for moving liquids underpins modern hydro engineering

 

 

Archimedes shows his students how the archimedean screw pump is used to lift water  in the image above. Archimedes Probably studied in Alexandria, Egypt

 

Archimedes helped to defend his city Syracuse in 214 B.C… When the Romans attacked and besieged it for two years by inventing “engines of war”, includes cranes to drop rocks, claws to lift ships from the water, and machines to fire wooden missiles. Archimedes also devised a system of mirrors that focused the sun’s light on enemy ships, setting the ships on fire.

 

After the defeat of the Greeks by Romans and successfully captured the city in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier who did not know who he was.

 

Archimedes most popular invention is the Archimedes screw, an inventive device for raising water popularly known as the Archimedes screw pump. the Archimedean screw pumps are still being used in crop irrigation and sewage treatment plants even today.

 

Legend has it that he discovered Archimedes’ principle of buoyancy while in the bath, where he noticed that the more of his body he submerged in the water, the greater the amount of water that over-flowed the bath. Upon making this discovery, he is said to have run naked through the streets of Syracuse, shouting “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”).

 

Ancient wisdoms of Archimedes Greek Mathematician

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Who was Archimedes

Who was Archimedes?

Archimedes is generally regarded as the greatest mathematician, Inventor and scientist of Greek antiquity.

Archimedes screw or the Archimedes screw pump is his invention. Born in, Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about287 B.C…

 

Mathematician: Archimedes was obsessed with mathematics.

He would become so involved in his work that he would forget to eat. He scribbled notes and figures on any available surface. When outside, he used a stick to draw on the ground; when inside, he used his finger to trace figures in the olive oil on his skin.

 

Out of this obsession came many of his greatest theories and proofs, such as the means for approximating square roots, the value of pi (the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter), and the creation of a way to describe very large numbers. He also devised methods for calculating areas and volumes 2,000 years before the invention of calculus. In addition, Archimedes proved that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a circumscribed cylinder. He considered this proof his greatest accomplishment and even requested that a representation of a sphere inside a cylinder be inscribed on his tomb.

 

Image of Archimedes Greek Mathematician

 

Scientist: Archimedes laws of flotation, Archimedes principle of buoyancy.

Legend has it that Archimedes discovered the hydrostatic principle while in the bath, where he noticed that the more of his body he submerged in the water, the greater the amount of water that over-flowed the bath. Upon making this discovery, he is said to have run naked through the streets of Syracuse, shouting “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”).  

 

Image above shows how the ancient Archimedean screw pump

 

Inventor: Archimedes screw is his most enduring invention an inventive device for raising water/lift water.

 

Archimedes screw pump is used to lift water,

popularly known as the Archimedean screw pump that is still used in crop irrigation and sewage treatment plants even today

Archimedes is believed to have seen screw pumps in use on rive Nile delta when he studied in Alexandria, Egypt

 

Greek: Archimedes lived and worked in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C

He invented “engines of war” When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C.,to defend the city, including cranes to drop rocks, claws to lift ships from the water, and machines to fire wooden missiles. He also devised a system of mirrors that focused the sun’s light on enemy ships, setting the ships on fire.

 

Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C..

 

After the Romans successfully captured the city in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by a Roman infantryman during the attack of the city after he allegedly told the soldier, “Don’t disturb my circles”—a reference to a series of figures Archimedes had outlined in the sand. As he wished, Archimedes’ tombstone is marked with the figure of a sphere enclosed by a cylinder and the 2:3 ratios of their volumes. Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier who did not know who he was.

 

Archimedes screw turbine and Archimedean screw generator

Archimedes screws and Archimedean screw pumps

are centuries old and widely used in the waste water/sewage industry is now being used to generate green renewable energy in the form of hydro electricity.

 

The Archimedes screw turbine and Archimedean screw generator

a relatively new comer is gradually becoming popular and getting some much needed publicity. Just yesterday 24th August 2011 Windsor castle announced to the BBC News that four Archimedes screw generators are going to provide the Queens residence its own Hydroelectricity . Making it the first royal palace to adopted the Government Feed In Tariffs (FITs) that pays individuals to generate Renewable Energy.

Archimedes screw generator or Archimedes hydro screws

are now operating and generation hydro-electric power for one of the  2012 London Olympic venues , working as both screw pumps and screw  turbines / generators.  

 

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Use full links for anyone considering Micro-Hydro Power

 

 

Micro-hydro generation| Hydro-electric power

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme

British Hydropower Association

Micro Hydro Association

Department of Energy & Climate Change

Energy Saving Trust

Ofgem

Feed-In Tariffs

 

How to measure river flow:

Ehow

Geography site

Wikipedia

Answers yahoo

 

River flow information:

Environment Agency

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Your local measuring stations

 

Archimedes hydro screw is unique as it can be used as both screw pumps and screw turbines or hydrodynamic generators.

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