Feasibility study hyropower plant Vila Volta, Brazil

Feasibility study hyropower plant Vila Volta, Brazil

Henny, A.
Bronsvoort, K.

Verhagen, H.J. (mentor)

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Hydraulic Engineering

2009-12-31

A remote guesthouse in the Brazilian province of Rio de janeiro is using electricity from the nuclear fed power grid. The owner would like to change the energy supply from nuclear to hydropower if a hydropower plant would produce enough energy to keep the guesthouse running. A small hydropower plant could possibly produce enough energy for the guesthouse. The owners of guesthouse have got expansion plans and at the moment the energy bills are reasonably high. Also several devices are not used very often because of the high price in use. By the cheap way of producing electricity, the Vila Volta guesthouse could change a lot of non-electronic fed devices into electronic fed devices, which would make the guesthouse more modern. Examples of these devices are boilers and the sauna. Another possible advantage is the fact that the owners don’t have to carry the barrels of gas into the valley. To limit the Bachelors thesis project to hydraulic engineering questions, a feasibility and achievability study is done for a hydropower plant at the Vila Volta guesthouse. Designing and building the hydropower plant is not the main issue. These issues will be dealt with later on by the owners of the guesthouse themselves. The writers of this thesis investigated different options, but did not make any important decisions. The main goal of this study is to answer the following question: “Is it feasible and achievable for the owner of the Vila Volta guesthouse to build a small hydropower plant in order to produce enough energy to fulfil the demand of energy?”

hydropower
small-scale
Brazil

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Student theses

bachelor thesis

(c) 2009 Henny, A.
Bronsvoort, K.