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Design and simulation of water level monitoring and control system in mini hydro power plant

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In common mini-hydropower plants in Indonesia, the control of water levels in intake, sand-trap and the head pond is carried out manually. This conventional manual control system may cause damages of the waterway and all its components due to overflow or transient flow of water during load shedding or blackout of the electricity grid. The damages eventually may increase the cost of maintenance and increase the risk of waterway collapse or excessive water hammer in a penstock pipe. This type of collapses often happens in many mini-hydropower plants in Indonesia. The risk of damages can be reduced by installing water level control and monitoring system in all key waterway components such as in intake, sand-trap, and head pond. Some other mini-hydropower plants have installed water level control and monitoring system. But the price of such a control system is still very expensive and high operation and maintenance cost. Thus, this thesis work designs and simulates simple and inexpensive the water level control and monitoring system for a mini-hydropower plant. In this thesis work, the design and simulation of the water level control and monitoring system are carried out by a simulated three water tanks where the water levels in the tanks are monitored and controlled by using ultrasonic level sensors and motorized valves respectively. A simple and inexpensive Arduino based water level control and monitoring system are successfully designed to fulfill the requirement of quick or fast respond for water level control in the simulated model.

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M00552

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552

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: Swiss German University., 2019

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English

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Arduino
MME
Monitoring
Control
Water Level
Mini Hydro Power Plant
Ultra Sonic Sensor

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