Sistema de recuperación de energía basado en emular el movimiento del flujo de agua en tuberías

Abstract

Energy production is an important factor for the development of productive activities, transformation and services in the country, whose generation and consumption increases year by year, which leads to the use of clean energy more and more. Hydropower as a portable application option contributes little to energy production in industries or homes, so this situation presents an opportunity for the development of adaptive power generation systems that take advantage of the movement of water. In the present work, a test bench based on an energy recovery system was developed, which consists of simulating the flow of water that exists in the pipes in order to generate electrical energy through mechanical movement by coupling a permanent magnet generator, where the behavior of a turbine interconnected to a pipeline was emulated, through a DC motor whose speed is controlled through a power chopper. A storage and power conversion was developed, integrating a rectifier module with filter which converted the signal from alternating to direct, which would later be the input of a Buck reducing CD-CD converter, which has high efficiency and allows to reduce the voltage stabilized at 5V. To complete the storage system at different loads, a Boost power converter module was used which raises and converts the signal from CD to CD, obtaining a voltage output greater than its input, this energy can be stored in batteries and in the same way be used to power any CD device, thus allowing us to save a part of the energy that is consumed when transporting water in a pipe.