Pico Cross Flow
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Pico Cross Flow Basic Data Category: Business, industry URL (first publication): http://www.picocrossflow.com/
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Description
The Pico Cross Flow is an open source cross flow turbine.
We designed it to fill the need of people with no access to electricity, who lack a safe, robust, affordable and highly-capable machine. Unlike others the Pico Cross Flow comes fully loaded with knowledge to build, run and maintain the whole hydroelectric scheme.
As part of the Open Source movement we hope to simplify the creation and sharing of pico hydropower solutions to satisfy energy needs and bring light to remote areas.
We want to provide robust, low-maintenance, low-cost, efficient, highly-capable and safe machines that will increase the proliferation of hydroelectricity and make a significant contribution to remote area electrification in an environmentally sustainable way.
The Pico Cross Flow prototype was tested at and with the help of the Hydrodynamic Laboratory of the Technical University of Vienna. The test results, turbine efficiency curves, application range, power output etc. are now available at the FILES section at our website. Additionally we added some pictures and movies of the testing and test rig at the MEDIA section of our website. We are happy, that the turbine operates very stable at a wide application range (head and flow). At this moment we focus on optimization and want to improve its efficiency. Once we get a prototype that meets acceptable working conditions, we will proceed to manufacture a market-ready product and publish its design. We want to ultimately have a product that is robust and highly efficient, requiring minimal specialized tools to build and assemble at a very low cost.
If you want to have further information about the prototype, the current status of our work or anything else, feel free to contact us.
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