International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Research, optimization and practical implementation of a Small Hydropower Plants as a source of clean electricity are one of the actual tasks in the current energetics, which is virtually impossible to solve without powerful computer support due to the strongly nonlinear nature of such systems. The article presents an overview of the most common simulation model schemes of Small Hydropower Plants, whereas explores the sub-models of its individual subsystems. The hydraulic turbine is considered as a core of the hydropower plant, whose efficiency calculation is analytically demanding and dependent on parameters that are often obtained only by theoretical estimation. In the article a fuzzy system was used to create its model based on measured operating data on the turbine flow rate and the height of its water column without the need to know the turbine parameters. Such a model is applicable in practice for the design of an energy-optimized hydroturbine control as well as to the effective determination of the deterioration rate. The correctness of the results was verified by simulation measurements in the MATLAB program.

It shows the urgency of the task of creating a methodological and program base that supports the adoption of pre-project solutions in the placement and justification of the parameters of prospective small hydro power plants in Kazakhstan. The questions of application of the data of geoinformation systems using SRTM DEM and ASTER GDEM in the making of a digital relief model are considered. Moreover, showed the using this application for preparation of the feasibility study for the construction of small hydro power stations. A brief overview of the used geoinformation systems tools is given. The deviation of proposed methods for making topographic maps was studied using the example of calculating the volume of the reservoir on the Baskan river in the Almaty region.