WEEKLY ACTIVITIES II

Week 8

- making a draft proposal and showed to the project advisor for revised

Week 9

- making preparation for slide presentation for the presentation on next Thursday.
- receive an info from project advisor via phone about what should have in slide presentation
- make a slide presentation for next week

Week 10

- doing more preparation for presentation this week
- project proposal presentation on Thursday from 3 pm to 5 pm

Week 11

- start making a progress report for chapter 1, 2, and 3

Week 12

- continue the work of making a progress report and done for chapter 1

Week 13

- continue the work of making a progress report and done for chapter 2

Week 14

- continue the work of making a progress report and done for chapter 3 
- recheck and making correction for all project proposal, chapter 1, 2 and 3 of the progress report before next week
- print and compile all progress report chapter 1, 2 and 3 and print proposal report
-touch up my blog for looking better and suitable for me as a FYP students

Week 15

- submit of the project proposal, and progress report chapter 1, 2 and 3

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES I

Week 1

- searching the title for the final year project

- make an ideas from the title of final project

- making a simple proposal

- looking for a lecturer to be the final year project advisor

Week 2

- keep researching more info about this project

- register my title in RPS by project advisor

Week 3

- make another proper proposal and submit it to the advisor

Week 4

- research about the new project and start to do the proposal

Week 5

- estimate budget for component and equipment about this project

Week 6

- start thinking of designing blog / logbook of final year project weekly report

- choose to make a weekly report by using the blog

Week 7

- see my project advisor to ask how to make a better proposal and to complete the task that needed for FYP semester 1 students

CONCLUSION (SEMESTER 1)

v This research study will produce new development in operation, performance and cost estimation for backup power supply systems.

v The Mini Hydroelectric can be used to plan for backup power supply system.

v The research findings will be very useful in the backup power supply industry as it will enable the user to make informed judgments on process level and performance of such systems.

v Practically, the proposed system main target users are backup power system designers, manufacturers, generator tendering committees, maintenance, and repair personnel and up to end – user.

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

BEGINNING COST OF PRODUCT/PROJECT

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

WORK PLAN / GANTT CHART

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

OBJECTIVE OF PRODUCT

The purpose of this project is :

• To design and demonstrate the development of the techniques to provide or generate power for household / industries as a backup power supply.

• This system is intended to function during emergencies situation.

Generally the project aims to :

• New development method of backup power supply system by considering the operations, performance, flexibility and cost of the system.

• Apply technique that will help to reduce a cost of invention backup power supply system.

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

METHODOLOGY OF PRODUCT

Flow Diagram For Mini Hydroelectric Generator

Block Diagram For Mini Hydroelectric Generator

WATER: Water Flow from a standard pipe and flows through the water jet that serve as driving force for the turbine.

PUMP: This part use a hydraulic ram to recycle the water source in order not to waste water.

TURBINE: The turbine is Pelton wheel. It will enclose in a box and attached to the motor shaft to drive the generator.

MOTOR / GENERATOR: The motor is an alternator 12 V permanent magnet DC motor that generate until 45 Ampere. It acts as generator.

DC – AC INVERTER: The 12VDC input will be invert to 240VAC at 50 Hz.

OUPUT: The electrical outlet will be attached for easy power supply to household device.

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

PROBLEM STATEMENT

        The Mini Hydroelectric Generator is a circuit which ensures a continuous power supply to the load irrespective to any power quality problems. As the critical electrical equipments or loads in telecommunication, information technology, financial systems and medical treatment should not be interrupted, not even for an instant because of the public safety, privacy and responsibility. Furthermore, in this century, the electronic equipment is used extensively to do many part of job: if the power disturbances happen such as voltage sag: the loss, safety and process will be in risk. This is the part where the backup power supply will act not only during power failure but also during troubleshooting or maintenance of the systems. However, in the market, the competency of backup generator is important which many type of generators already have been distributed and created: most popular is diesel generator, obviously many problems happen such as the backup power supply fails to supply power to the critical loads, a high cost for very simple systems and the source power will produce a pollution. There are many reasons for this to happen, among of it is a component failure, environment factors, system overload and less awareness of friendly nature. For these reasons, it is important to develop or a new methods such as safest, less maintenance and cheapest which is renewable power source like hydro. Another thing to be upgrade in the systems is to improve the performance and operation of backup power supply system, to ensure it will perform satisfactorily when needed the most. 

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

INTRODUCTION OF PROJECT

MINI HYDROELECTRIC GENERATOR

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, most people are using electricity power in their daily activity either at house or office. In this rate, the problem about electricity power supply also increases dramatically. The problem about pollution, power failure, high maintenance and lost power consistency is one of the problem that always faced by customer. So, it is suitable with the general purpose of this hydroelectric generator, which is aim to act as a backup power supply. In other meaning, to give a continuity of electric supply, and to provide a clean supply without been interrupted, not even for instant to support electrical equipment or loads. This systems need to be able to supply power continuously, not only in the case of power failure but also during troubleshooting and maintenance of the system.

The Hydroelectric Generator is powered by water flowing from water host. It is one of the best methods to ensure this backup power supply system will be able to support the critical loads for a specific time during power disturbances because of utility system. Consumers will use this product to provide energy for their electric equipment in case of power failure. The main focus of the study is on the backup power supply performance during varies emergencies situation and new development in distribution generator: system operation, reduction cost and flexibility of the system will be proposed and applied to the study to make a good backup power supply system.

This research study will reviews the various types and configuration of backup power supply system especially about hydroelectric generator. It will then be used as case studies to test and validate the proposed operation, estimation cost and performance at practical environment. This project will be exciting because it will allow us to design and build a small hydro-generation system.  This system will give insight into the complex task of finding a reliable energy source for future use. The research study will conclude with recommendation and to improve a backup power supply system on its performance and capability with respect to load critically, cost and applications.

FYP 1 students,

Azri Sabri

MINI HYDROELECTRIC GENERATOR

STUDENT NAME: AZRI BIN SABRI
ID NO: 51210111023
INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITI KUALA LUMPUR BRITISH MALAYSIAN INSTITUTE
SECTION: ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT
SUPERVISOR: SIR AZUKI BIN ABDUL SALAM