Vortex Turbine

In agriculture, the use of energy, especially electricity, is essential for its proper development. This energy is used in very different ways: in drainage and irrigation automation, to operate the necessary machinery, in heating greenhouses, in the transportation of products both within the farms themselves and to the centers where they are sold, in the transformation of food or its own conservation. Therefore, one way to produce electrical energy is by taking advantage of an available natural resource such as water and its gravitational flow with potential usable kinetic energy. A technology associated with the above is the gravitational votex turbine, whose energy conversion mechanism consists of passing water through a straight inlet and directing it tangentially towards a cylindrical container, equipped with a drainage hole at the bottom. The water forms a large whirlpool in this central drainage that sets the turbine in motion, extracting the rotational energy from the whirlpool and converting it into electrical energy. This turbine has a compact design that makes it easy to adapt and install in the limited spaces available. Generally the external diameter of the vortex chamber measures a maximum of 4 m, which represents the need for little space for its assembly.