Approach for Cost Determination of Electro-Mechanical Equipment in Ror Shp Projects英文文献资料.docVIP

Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, 2011, 2, 63-67 63 doi:10.4236/sgre.2011.22008 Published Online May 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/sgre) Approach for Cost Determination of Electro-Mechanical Equipment in RoR SHP Projects Sachin Mishra, Sunil Kumar Singal, Dheeraj Kumar Khatod Alternate Hydro Energy Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India. Email: rite2sm@ Received February 13 , 2011; revised March 5 , 2011; accepted March 8 , 2011. th th th ABSTRACT Electricity is one of the most widely used forms of energy. Being a renewable source of energy small hydropower is considered as an environment—friendly and cheap source of electricity. The installation cost of the small hydropower project depends mainly on two parts—civil works and electromechanical equipment. One of the most important element on the recovery of a small hydro-power plant is the electromechanical equipment (turbine-alternator). The present pa- per intends to develop a correlation to determine the cost based on the cost influencing parameters as power and head using three different methods, namely; sigma plot method, linest method and logest method. An attempt has also been made to identify the best correlation among the three models closer to the actual cost of electro-mechanical equipment as collected from recently developed projects. Keywords: Small Hydropower Plant, Electro-Mechanical Equipments, Linest, Logest 1. Introduction importance due to their relatively low administrative and executive costs and a short construction time compared to large power plants. These SHPs are mostly in the run of river (RoR) category using instantaneous diverted flow of river runoff and consists of diversion weir, water con- ductor system (intake channel, desilting tank, power cha- nnel, forebay, penstock), power house and tailra