%0 Journal Article
%T Improvement in the Performance of a Tidal Power Plant Incorporating Ebbing, Positive and Negative Pumping
%A Subhav Jain
%A Suvansh Bansal
%A Yash Khanna
%A Samsher
%J Asian Journal of Scientific Research
%D 2013
%I Asian Network for Scientific Information
%X Considering the ever decreasing non-renewable energy resources, it has now become imperative to not only make use of more renewable energy sources but also to realise their maximum potential. After studying the working and performance of a few operational tidal power plants, this study aims at improving the power output of one such plant situated on Lake Sihwa in the Yellow Sea in South Korea. For achieving better results the operations must be carried out at optimum operating conditions. The present operation utilizes Kaplan Turbine based flooding operations only. Some improvements have been identified to increase the power output of the above discussed plant. There is potential for these operations to be extended, in particular to make greater use of pumping as well as ebbing. It has been found out that the power output increases considerably and hence can help in meeting the increasing energy demands of the nearby areas of the plant. In this paper the power output was increased by 6.9 and 29.6% through two different process combinations, respectively. Hence a net increment of 21.25% in power output was evaluated, incorporating pumping only.
%K Renewable energy
%K operating modes
%K two way generation
%K tidal power
%U http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/ajsr/2013/508-517.pdf