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Redesign and Optimization Study of Micro-Hydropower Plant in Manica Mozambique
Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Faculty of Engineering, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Universidade Pedagogica (UP), Lichinga, Moçambique
Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- 1 Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- 2 Faculty of Engineering, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
- 3 Universidade Pedagogica (UP), Lichinga, Moçambique
- 4 Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Energy and Power Engineering·Volume 09 (2017)·Pages 100–107·Published 10 February 2017·DOI10.4236/epe.2017.92008
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Abstract
The micro-hydropower has the technical capability of providing electricity to rural areas in Manica or other isolated place in Mozambique in currently not yet supplied with EDM (Mozambicam electricity Supply Company). Associated that, today more than 12 million of Mozambicans live below the poverty line including in non-electrified areas and most of these populations are rural people. The stochastic ARMA model and Neural Wavelet was built and fitted from the historical 49 years of hydrology predictions. The flow duration curve was plotted based on flow data with objective to find power potential that was 76.8 Kw.
KeywordsMicro HydropowerRenewable EnergyManica Mozambique
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