PROPOSAL FOR A MICRO TURBINE TO ELECTRICITY'S GENERATION IN ISOLATED AMAZON COMMUNITIES
Eraldo Cruz dos Santos1; Cássio Willian Corrêa Tavares2; Paulo Augusto Soares de Aquino3; Marcelo de Oliveira Silva3
1 Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA; 2 Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA; 3 Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA
doi:10.20906/CPS/COB-2015-0608
Resumo
In Brazil, the Legal Amazon region represents around 59 % of the national territory, however, its large territorial dimension reconciled with a low demographic density and negligible government assistance slow down the local development growth, having electrical energy unavailability as an aggravating factor in large part of its formation. Accordingly, the present paper aims to present a hydraulic micro turbine to be installed on a floating platform, as one of possible solutions, to attend isolated Amazonian communities, using recycled raw materials or reused components. After social, scientific and environmental data entry, in order to evaluate the energetic needs from local communities, the investigation found that generating 2kW of power energy, is possible to supply small villages. Therefore hoped that, with the development of this study is possible to reduce the energy requirements for isolated communities, especially in the Amazon riverside.
Palavras-chave: Amazon; isolated communities; micro floating turbine