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Power Generation from Stored Energy

06/26/2009 12:25 AM

Dated: 26-06-2009

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P. Rama Linga Swamy,

6-7-570, Sripuram Colony,

Tirupati-517 507.

Ph:9866481059

e-mail:-swamy_prl56@yahoo.com

Purpose: - POWER SAVING

Project Name: - De-Electrification

Principle:- Self-sufficiency at micro level even at 70% efficiency and ultimately less load on grid supply.

Working notes: - In Tirupati, the population is 3, 00,000. @ 5 persons in each house (say), there are 60,000 houses. Less 20,000 houses in slum areas which may not have houses or House Over Head Tanks (HOTs). The remaining 40,000 houses are having HOTs are at 15 ft or 30 ft height.

Present system:- At present the water works department pumps water to the Colony Over Head Tank (COT) with 5 HP motor in 7 hours consuming Rs.350/- per day. COT capacity (say) 40,000 liters at 40 ft height. This water will be distributed to 160 houses @ 50 liters per head per day (LPD), i.e., 250 liters per house.

We are getting water with ½' pipe into our house sumps. Again, we are pumping the water to our HOT from the sump with ½ HP motor for ½ hour daily consuming power. We are paying power bill (say) Rs.25/- a month for water pumping.

What is to be done: - 2" pipe line is there in the colony street. Connect 2" pipe line from it to the HOT instead ½' pipe line to sump. It may cost Rs.250/-. But it will be reimbursed in 10 months by saving power bills.

By using water distribution management system, through software, canalizing & timing the water can reach from COT to direct HOTs with water pressure. Water level sensors can be used to save water wastage.

Like that by stopping the motor power consumption by house holders, in Tirupathi in 40,000 houses, we can save 10 M W power per day. In other words, we stopped using power and thus saving coal, NAFTA, Hydro electricity, etc. What about other big cities like Hyderabad, Guntur, etc?

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Re: Power Generation from stored energy

06/26/2009 2:44 AM

My wife is also saving me to bankruptcy.

How do you intend turning the coal station on and off?

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Re: Power Generation from stored energy

06/26/2009 2:58 AM

In any city, the main pipeline is of large diameter and then the distribution lines drop in diameter like the roots of tree (the main root, sub root, fibrous roots etc).

This and some times orifices are used to ensure that the man in the end of the line also get the water.

If you start the pipe with 2" dia and the distributions also with the same dia, who stops tha man in the beginning from doing the garden flooding with tha water and keeping others dry (especially if he high at a height?)

In fact this is what we got at our coloney too (till they put orifices in the line).

The water supply authorities supply you a certain quantity of water and expects the water pressure to build up due to less withdrawals. But unortunately due to drains it doesn't. In our coloney after orifice, we are getting enough water in our overhead tank (provided we control the water in the gardening) without any sump+pump.

Control the usage, and you will get the pressure. But since that is not in your control, the whole society has to do it, do what we have done, ask your supply authority to put the orifices at distribution points or some other control devices.

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Re: Power Generation from stored energy

06/26/2009 4:24 AM

In the UK, the water regulations require that mains potable water is delivered to the home at a minimum pressure. All water for consumption, cooking, etc., is distributed from what is known as the rising main, which feeds a storage tank in the loft (usually) via a Portsmouth Valve. All non-potable water is delivered from there by gravity. The Portsmouth Valve is there to provide a type 1 air gap so that any biological contamination from the tank (a decaying dead bird inside it, for example) cannot enter the rising main via the valve connection should the supply fail.

In considering alterations to district water schemes, the regulations applicable in that locality must take precedence over any economic considerations. The regulations are there to maintain public health. It is no good saving a few coins-worth of expenditure on pumping water around if the outcome is a major health epidemic that causes a significant dent in the local or national economy!

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