River turbine

How do you get electricity out of a river?

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tech-solute developed suitable solutions for the river power plant, planned by this customer, in the form of a river turbine. One of the solutions was a special floating body concept. For maintainance work the turbine needds to be brought to the water surface. For this purpose, it was planned to inject compressed air into special floating bodies until most of the turbine rises out of the water. For lowering the turbine, the floats should be flooded with water again. The solution’s functionality and effect was first demonstrated in a water laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, and subsequently in a river, using a scaled-down functional model,