マイクロ水力発電装置を用いた流量および減圧量のセンサレス制御

抄録

This paper presents the use of a water wheel as an alternative to a flow or pressure regulating valve in a water supply system. The proposed system not only controls the flow and pressure but also generates electricity. A sensorless control method is also proposed so that the flow and pressure can be estimated by function approximation of the waterwheel characteristics using the Buckingham π theorem. The performance of the proposed method was validated experimentally.