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SPOTLIGHT ON THE NETHERLANDS
HYDROPOWER FROM RIVERS
EQA Projects is gaining attention, prizes and orders with its gravitational and current-driven hydropower solutions based on that centuries-old energy-conversion concept, the water wheel
The EQA-River, for example, is a plug and play floating hydropower installation. Designed to be placed wherever there are decently flowing waters, it generates electricity at economical rates and provides a continuous and reliable source of environmentally friendly energy. Thanks to its efficiency and ease of placement, it can be used to both provide power in remote locations and to help local municipalities meet their goals for sustainable energy production.
SUITABLE SITES
The device can be employed in stream velocities of between 1.7m/s and 7m/s – typical sites include watercourses, creeks, bridgeheads, industrial water systems and dam runoff channels.
Thanks to a low rotational speed, the EQA-River’s waterwheel is 100% compliant with NEN 8775, a proposed Dutch fish safety norm for turbines and
hydropower installations. The installation also rises and falls with the river level, so it never obstructs the flow of the water and automatically lifts itself out of the water should tides, waves or water velocity be too high, if there has been an incident of some kind, or if there is no demand for energy. The same built-in sensors, reporting in real-time, further provide water managers with a better understanding of a stretch of water – or even a whole system when multiple EQA-Rivers are employed.
EQA-BOX
Another EQA solution, the EQA-Box, uses falling and flowing water to generate sustainable energy at existing hydro infrastructure. Basically, any suitable location can be equipped with an EQA-Box to generate micro-scale hydropower. These include pumping stations, sewage treatment facilities, sluices, inlets and outlets, industrial water systems, waterfalls and other
falling and flowing waters. INTEGRATION
The EQA-Box is plug and play and can be integrated into a water system while using existing operational systems and software. It can also be expanded to include fully automatic water management software for autonomous operation.
All EQA products (the company also markets a ‘smart weir’) are mostly made from recycled plastics, so also finding a new use for a material that might otherwise end up polluting our oceans.
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