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Design and Investigation of Archimedes Screw Turbine: Influence of Inclination Angle on Power Production

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The Archimedes screw turbine (AST) is a type of turbine that produces micro-hydro power that can operate at low heads. In this article, the performance of AST is experimentally investigated for the angle of an inclination. This study aims to analyze the effect of variations in the turbine screw shaft angle on the shaft rotation, output power, current, and voltage generated. The AST turbine’s lower inclination angle (25°) results in higher efficiency. The test results show that the optimum inclination angle is obtained at 35° for water discharge 0.011 m3/s delivering a torque of 2 N.m.

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Thank for Majelis Pendidikan Tinggi Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pimpinan Pusat Muhammadiyah by Basic Research funding (The Muhammadiyah Research Grant Batch V of 2021) Contract Number 0842.358/PD/I.3/C/2021.

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  1. Department Mechanical Engineering, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia

    Suherman, Andika Pratama, M. R. Prayogi, M. F . Pane, S. Priyono, T. I. Sugatra & Faisal Azmar

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Suherman et al. (2024). Design and Investigation of Archimedes Screw Turbine: Influence of Inclination Angle on Power Production. In: Irwansyah, Iqbal, M., Huzni, S., Akhyar (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Experimental and Computational Mechanics in Engineering. ICECME 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7495-5_6

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