Efrita Arfah Zuliari and Ali Khomsah
Institut Teknologi Adhi Tama Surabaya, Jl. Arief Rachman Hakim, Surabaya, Indonesia
E-Mail: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
One of the ways to backwardness alleviation is doing with improve all fields, electrical infra structure is important
thing to be developed, especially remote community in rural area. To reach the need of electricity, the community on rural area must bring to independent electrical energy. The hope, power generator can be made by people from rural community, and finally “swa-electrification” for remote community will be reached. Hydropower is electricity generated using the energy of moving water, with water as energy, will be need turbine and generator. So in this research will be design picohydro power generation, with water as kinetic energy to rotate the blade of turbine, who made from bamboo, induction motor use as generator so called Induction Motor as Generator (IMAG). How far bamboo can be use and hold the load, and rotate the generator. The experiment has been done have results about power and efficiency; experiment simulation was done with turbine as prime mover to rotate generator, produce voltage and electric current. The results of the IMAG showed that the generator could work up to 360 watt lamp load at 1672 rpm. The actual load generator was 200 Watts at 1580.4 rpm, with total efficiency ηT, 23%.
Keywords: water turbine, bamboo blade, IMAG, picohydro.