Name of beneficiary:

AMPER Metál Elektromos Kivitelező, Karbantartó és Kereskedelmi Kft.

Project title:

Development of a small and medium-power river turbine prototype on the basis of a new Hungarian turbine construction

Project ID:

GINOP-2.1.7-15-2016-01679

Amount of aid:

104.526.340 Ft

Subsidy rate:

50,44 %

Content of the project:

Ampere Metal Ltd. was given the opportunity within the frames of the call for applications “GINOP-2.1.7-15 Prototype, product, technology and service development” to implement this project aimed at developing a new water turbine product line. The water turbine line ranges from a household size to the several megawatt industrial power plant turbines, for the low-energy water courses so far not exploited.

There is a serious international interest in solutions that provide an efficient method for easy to install or even mobile power generating and water pumping equipment. On the basis of these needs we consider the implementation of this research and development project to be justified.

The independent electricity and water supply of real estates located by rivers or larger streams is an area that can be exploited businesswise. Since water courses ensure nearly constant energy production – what is more without any emission – it can be a serious advantage at locations where electricity supply has to be routed into the building from a long distance and at high costs.

Another expanding market is the energy supply of ill-supplied, large uninhabited or very sparsely populated areas, and the developed product line provides an ideal solution, provided there are water courses nearby.

Based on the twin turbines invention various machine elements can be created. Our research and development project from these machine elements focuses on the water turbines that can be used on low-head water courses and on the associated power generators.

Subsequent to the Bánki turbine (OSSBERGER, Mitchel) this is the first Hungarian invention that is capable of efficiently producing rotational mechanical energy from low energy density water courses.

Subsequent to the Bánki turbine (OSSBERGER, Mitchel) this is the first Hungarian invention that is capable of efficiently producing rotational mechanical energy from low energy density water courses.

The layout of the turbine (twin vertical axis) results in that the water course passes without any change in the direction between the blades that fill the entire working surface. The energy can be coupled out at the upper end of the axes of the immersed blade rows, thus the generator can be installed in a dry place. By reversing the direction of rotation of the equipment functions as a pump, so it can also be used in pump-turbine storage power plants.

Start date of the project:

02 October 2017

Ending date of the project:

24 September 2019