Through the rigorous research, we the research and team of Institute of Engineering, Pulhcowk Campus has been successful in creating a new and innovative technology addressing the current energy crisis in Nepal. Our Team including 9 students and 3 professors has developed a new micro hydro power plant that is efficiently applicable in low head region like the Terai Region. The success can be a revolution in electrifying various rural communities of the country.
The Gravitational Water Vortex Power Plant is based on the principle of converting the potential energy of water with a powerful Gravitational Water Vortex (GWV) in a rotation tank to kinetic energy. The kinetic energy is focused as rotation energy to the turbine in the center of the GWVPP. The turbine converts the rotation energy of the GWV together with a generator to green electricity.
While participating in the CORE 2015 representing research, development and promotion team of 7 of Nepal among various other participants around the globe indeed was a great honor for me. The international exposure during the competition 2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Technology CORE-2015 held at Mokpo National University, Mokpo, South Korea was a plus point for all the Nepalese researchers as the platform gave us the international recognition. Out of total of 72 projects from various nations our project entitled “Design Optimization of basin and testing of runner for Gravitational Water Vortex power plant” received an outstanding response from the jury members and was also given the special award.
The achievement during the Capstone renewable energy design contest helped to pay off all the hard work that we had done during our undergraduate research. The vision of Nepalese people to empower the society by exploiting their own immense water and other natural resources through promising technology was appreciated by all. The experiences that I collected during the contest made me realize one important fact that we will be able to lead the globe in research and development if only we focus on the research based on technology that we have within Nepal.
The Gravitational Water Vortex Power Plant is based on the principle of converting the potential energy of water with a powerful Gravitational Water Vortex (GWV) in a rotation tank to kinetic energy. The kinetic energy is focused as rotation energy to the turbine in the center of the GWVPP. The turbine converts the rotation energy of the GWV together with a generator to green electricity.
While participating in the CORE 2015 representing research, development and promotion team of 7 of Nepal among various other participants around the globe indeed was a great honor for me. The international exposure during the competition 2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Technology CORE-2015 held at Mokpo National University, Mokpo, South Korea was a plus point for all the Nepalese researchers as the platform gave us the international recognition. Out of total of 72 projects from various nations our project entitled “Design Optimization of basin and testing of runner for Gravitational Water Vortex power plant” received an outstanding response from the jury members and was also given the special award.
The achievement during the Capstone renewable energy design contest helped to pay off all the hard work that we had done during our undergraduate research. The vision of Nepalese people to empower the society by exploiting their own immense water and other natural resources through promising technology was appreciated by all. The experiences that I collected during the contest made me realize one important fact that we will be able to lead the globe in research and development if only we focus on the research based on technology that we have within Nepal.
