Chapter 1

introduction

1.1 INTRODUCTION
Water is used in almost anything and everything we do. From household activities to
industries or irrigation, abundant water supply is favorable. Since assam is an agricultural state,
and abundant water supply for this purpose is a must. Water is pumped to the agricultural field
using various pumps using electricity and other fuels ,but this fuels are not in abundance and
therefore makes it a costly affair.
An alternative solution to this problem could be a simple water wheel. The water wheel
rotates with the energy of flowing water and thus omits the use of any kind of fuel. A water
wheel consists of a large wheel basically made of wood or metal, and it consists of a number of
blades or buckets arranged on the outer rim forming the driving surface. Water wheels have been
used basically for agricultural purpose, lifting of water to a greater height since ancient times.
Use of water wheels has been found since ancient times like that in Hama, Syria. Flowing
water was used to turn the wheel and water held in buckets on the rim was lifted to great heights
to spill over into channels which irrigated the land further away. These wheels were often built to
huge proportions, because water was raised on their rims. Although the exact date is not known,
the concept of water wheel is assumed to be developed in the early 4000 bc in Greece.

Fig 1.1 Ancient water wheel.

1.1 Types of Water Wheel

2. Overshot water wheel

3. Breast shot water wheel
4. Undershot water wheel

1.1.1 Overshot water wheel

Fig1.2 Over shot water wheel. (Source: Wikipedia)

The overshot water wheel directs water onto the wheel to turn in the same direction
without changing its direction. They are usually used on falls of over ten feet. The water is
conveyed to the top of the wheel by a wooden trough or sluice box and fed into the buckets. The
water from the sluice box and the chute let the water into the buckets of the wheel from the
control gate. The buckets are formed by boards set at an angle toward the stream and the ends or
sides of the boards are set into slots in the sides of the wheel. The bottom edges of the front
bucket boards are fastened to the sole or drum formed by planks secured to the inside end of the
shrouds. The seams are often covered with batten to prevent leakage of water. This type of water
wheels is referred to as a bucket wheel. The power generated by an overshot water wheel
depends almost entirely on the weight of the water in the buckets, and the forward momentum of
the water as it enters the buckets adds slightly to the increment of the wheel's power. The water
wheel moves in the same direction of the stream. The wheel gets its benefit from the whole
initial velocity and impulse of the water. The advantage will be lost as the bottom of the wheel is
immersed in water and begins moving against the current. It is only possible for the wheel to turn
above the tail water. In the case of back watering, an overshot water wheel will obstruct and
impede its movement because air becomes trapped in the buckets as the water wheel is rotating.
The direction of that the overshot water wheel turns in back water tends to draw floating debris
into the water wheel and do damage to it. Another great problem with overshot water wheels is
that often the water is directed from the chute onto the wheel too far forward of the vertical
center of the water wheel and too much water flies over the wheel and never enters the buckets.
The end of the water box and the end of the chute attached to it should be just behind the vertical
center so when the water enters the wheel it is just behind the vertical center. In this way the
wheel takes full advantage of the water and the fall available. The general rule for building an
over shot water wheel is to allow a foot above and a foot below the wheel subtracted from the
available fall.

1.1.2 Breast shot water wheel

In many cases the breast shot water wheels and undershot water wheels are of larger
diameter than the overshot and pitch-back water wheels. In the ordinary breast shot water wheel
the water comes into the water wheel about at the center axis point. In some of the high breast
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shot water wheels, the water is applied to the upward top of the water wheel. The weight of the
water multiplied by the height of decent and not by just its impulse yields effective power. This
type of water wheel has its lower upstream side or quarter encased by an arch or apron. It is
made to fit closely to the rim of the water wheel to prevent the loss of water from moving under
the wheel and thus keeping more water in the buckets keeping the water wheel more efficient.

Fig 1.3 Breast shot water wheel

1.1.3 Undershot water wheel

The undershot water wheel is used on falls with very low head, where there may be only
a slight fall to a stream. The wheels are found usually with less than 4 feet or with no head at all.
These water wheels are moved entirely by the impulse of the water and consequently required
much greater quantities of water to produce the same power as developed by the overshot, pitchback and breast shot water wheels.
They are mainly found on tidal mills and boat or floating mills. The simple form of the
water wheel is that of a paddle wheel. They may only be placed were they dip into the current
and relay mainly on the movement of the water than by any fall. The weight of the water is not
applied. The undershot water wheels usually have no sole or shrouding. Of the three types of
vertical water wheels, the undershot is the least efficient and the power developed being
comparatively small to that of the size of the wheel and the amount of water that moves it.

Fig 1.3 Undershot water wheel

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1.2 Disadvantages of Water Wheel

From the literature survey we could easily conclude that although the use of a
waterwheel has omitted the use of fuel and is therefore a cheaper device, but it also has certain
limitations. The various disadvantages of the water wheel has been stated below.

Water can be lifted only to the height of the water wheel

The primary disadvantage of the water wheel is that the water could be lifted
only upto the height of the diameter of the waterwheel, which clearly indicates that either
the water cannot be lifted above the height of the water wheel or else, the other option is
that the diameter of the waterwheel is to be increased which in turn will increase the
expenditure.

Discharge of Water at Particular Point and need of a drainage system

It has been observed that water could be discharged only upto a particular fixed
point or else a drainage system will be required to transfer the water up to the required
level or point which will in turn increase the expenditure.

In order to overcome these difficulties, a spiral tube is added as an lifting device in place
of water lifting buckets of the water wheel.
1.5 SPIRAL PUMP
A spiral pump is basically used to pump water from a lower head to a higher head region.
This pump uses a rotating pipe coil to pump water. Spiral pump is considered to be created in
1746 by H.A. Wirtz, of Switzerland. Wirtz invented the spiral pump to provide water to a higher
head.
1.5.1 Working Principle of A Spiral Pump
The spiral tubes are fixed to the wheel so that the spiral pipes rotate, as the wheel itself
rotates. The water collector connected to the outermost end of the spiral tube gulps in a good
quantity of water and delivers this into the spiral tube as it rises above. This core of water passes
through the spiral followed by a core of air as the wheel rotates. A new core of water is formed

on every revolution, and a new core of air. Thus a series of cores of water and air are formed
within each spiral pipe as the wheel rotates. Both spiral tubes deliver their water and air into the
axle of the wheel and there it is led off through a water seal to a static rising pipe, which delivers
water to the header tank. As the wheel revolves a pressure head develops within each coil of the
spiral tube, water in the rising coils being higher than in the descending coils. These cores of
water in the spiral tube compress the air between them as they travel around the spirals and both
water and air are expelled under pressure into the axle. The flow of water up the static rising pipe
is also accelerated by the compressed air escaping and expanding from the outlet at the axle of
the wheel. This effect also helps to lift water to the header tank. Fig 1.5 shows a spiral water
wheel.

Fig 1.4 Cross section of spiral pump

1.5.2 Advantages of spiral water wheel pump

Water can be lifted to a higher height.

No drainage system is required for water transfer.
Discharge of water is more by use of delivery pipes.

1.6 PROBLEM DEFINITION

Water is required in abundance for household, industrial, agricultural purpose. Basically a

large amount of water is required for agricultural purpose and the transfer of water from the
nearby water bodies requires a large amount of fuel in one form or the other. Assam being an
agricultural state having a large number of rivers, and keeping in mind the scarcity of electricity
and other conventional fuel to lift or transport the water from the nearby river bodies to the
agricultural fields a Spiral tube water wheel pump was proposed to be made as our final year
project keeping in mind about the various parameters of the Bhogdoi River.
Our main objective was to design a spiral tube water wheel pump where a head up to 20
ft. can be obtained. In the current project, a spiral tube water wheel pump, of a 3 meter diameter
water wheel and a 1.5 meter diameter spiral tubeis designed and fabricated on the bank of the
Bhogdoi River to pump water to the nearby areas to obtain the head of 20 ft.

1.8: Important Parameters related to Spiral Tube Water Wheel Pump performance:
From literature survey.

River flow
Size of blade
Number of blade
Diameter of the wheel
Diameter and number of the coils
Submergence of the coils

River flow: The speed of the water is directly proportional to the rotational speed of the water
wheel[].
Size of the blade: The size of the plate is directly proportional to the force exerted on blade
keeping velocity constant.
Number of blade: More the no of blade more is the force experienced by the wheel up to a
certain limit but decreases after that.
Diameter of wheel: Larger the diameter of wheel, greater the head generated.

Number of coils: Number of coils is directly proportional to the head generated.

Submerge ratio: As submerged ratio increases discharge increases but has negligible effect on
head.

1.8: Objective
In the present work, it is proposed to design and fabricate a spiral tube water wheel pump of
3 meter diameter water wheel and a 1.5 meter spiral tube water wheel is designed and fabricated
which could obtain a head of 20 ft. It is specially designed for the river Bhogdoi as the velocity of
Bhogdoi is 0.8 m/sec and analytically the designs were made for 0.6m/sec velocity. The work done
is detailed below .
PHASE 1:
(Completed at the end of 7th semester)

Literature review and data collection.

Design of the Spiral Tube Water Wheel Pump

Theoretical performance evaluation of the Pump

Site selection

Design calculations.

Partial Fabrication.

PHASE 2:
(Work Done in the 8th Semester)
Remaining Fabrication i.e. the construction work

Performance evaluation by calculating discharge and the height up to which the water is
lifted.

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Chapter 2
Literature Review

LITERATURE
REVIEW

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Study of various types of Water Wheel used in different parts of the world was studied
with the help of various technical papers. On study of the technical papers, various design
dimensions were studied and analytical power, head and velocity was obtained. The literature
describing the above findings are discussed in Table 2.1 below:
Table 2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW
Sl
Authors
No.
Name
1
Peter
Morgan.,
et al.
(1984)

By Peter
Tailer. et
al. (2005)

Title

Journal

Spiral tube
water
wheel
pump

Blair
research
bulletin

The Spiral
Pump: A
High Lift,
Slow
Turning
Pump

http://lurkert
ech.com/wat
er/pump/tail
er 1986

Findings
*Blair Research Laboratory built a water
wheel pump wheel ranging in size from .
5 m in diameter to 4 m diameter.
According to their reading, the pump (4
m wheel) pumped 3679 liters of water
per hour to a height of 8m above the
canal. At the canal the velocity of the
water flow was 1 m/s. The pump
consists of 16 paddles and 3 coils of 50
mm diameter. The wheel performed 3.21
revs per minute whilst pumping water to
8m. The height of which water can be
pump depends on no of coils in the spiral
tube. In the rotating joint of the pump he
used neoprene seal.
*A wheel with 160 feet of 1-1/4 inch
inside diameter flexible polyethylene
pipe is able to pump 3,900 gallons of
water per day to a 40 foot head with a
peripheral speed of 3 feet per second.
*This easily built, low maintenance
spiral pump can be used to provide water
without the need for fuel wherever there
is a flowing stream or river. It can also
be hand turned or otherwise driven to
provide a low cost, efficient pump 6 foot
diameter

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Lance
Brown., et
al. (2006)

Using
Stream
Energy To
Pump
Livestock
Water

British
Columbia ,
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Lands

* studied about a coil pump or sling

pump. The Sling Pump has 32mm
polyethylene pipe for the internal coil.
According to him, it will pump 15,000
liters per day up 6.1m. The sling pump
requires specific conditions are the pump
must be half submerged, 400 mm
minimum water depth, a water velocity
of 0.6 m/sec

Kimberley
Barnes.et
al. (2011)

Spiral tube
water
wheel

Sigma Pi
Sigma
Undergradua
te Research
Award Final
Report., et
al. (2011)

Phillip L.
Coil Pump
Thompson. Design for
el al.(2011) a
Communit
y Fountain
in Zambia

International
Journal for
Service
Learning in
Engineering
Vol. 6, No.
1, Spring
2011

* studied about spiral water pump, first

one coil model, after that two coil model.
They developed a equation to determine
the pressure. In the study of single coil
model, they compared the theoretical
lengths and experimental lengths of the
coil and the maximum difference is .
03m.
*designed a water wheel and coil pump
at Zambia river to provide 30 liters of
water per minute to a safe gathering area
30 meters on shore and at an elevation of
10 meters above the river

Praful
Yelguntar.
et al.
(2014)

Design,
Fabrication
& Testing
Of A
Waterwhee
l For
Power
Generation
In An
Open
Channel
Flow

IJREAT
International
Journal of
Research in
Engineering
& Advanced
Technology,
Volume 2,
Issue 1, FebMar, 2014

* produce 35watt power with the help of

1.10 diameter wheel which have 8
blades.

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Chapter 3
Design CALCULATIONS

DESIGN CALCULATIONS
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To design the Spiral Tube Water Wheel, various parameters had to be considered.
The primary consideration was the velocity of the Bhogdoi river which is followed by the other
analytical calculations. The various design calculations required in the design, starting from the
field study to measure the water velocity to the analytical design has been discussed below.
3.1 Field Study
In designing a water wheel, water velocity plays a most important parameter. So to
measure the water velocity and for the installation of the project, a field study was carried out.
Proper site is selected on the Bhogdoi River where velocity of water is sufficient enough for the
project. The depth of the water is measured by using a five feet long measuring bar at different
position. The velocity of water is measured by measuring the time taken by a small floating
object to cross a length of 1m.
Following datas are obtained from the field study conducted.

TABLE NO 3.1 DATAS OBTAINED FROM FIELD STUDY

Sl
no

Distance covered(m)

Time taken(sec)

Velocity
(m/sec)

1.24

0.806

1.37

.83

1.15

.87

1.40

.71

1.30

.77

Average
Velocity
(m/sec)

0.8

The velocity was found to be 0.8 m/sec during summer i.e. during the rainy season and an
average of 0.6 m/sec is considered as the average rainfall tends to change in different seasons.

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After selection of the site, the depth of the river water was measured. The dimensions of
the blade was considered with reference to the depth of the river which was found to be 1.30
meter.

TABLE 3.2 : DEPTH TABLE DATA

Sl no

Depth(m)

Average(m)

1.25

1.18
1.30

1.36

1.38

3.2 Water Wheel

Water wheel is one of the primary parts of the project; it uses the energy of the flowing water to
some useful energy. The main parts of the water wheel are
i.
ii.
iii.

Spoke
Blade
Shaft

Spoke: It is a long bar connecting the center of the wheel and it supports the frame of the blade.
The main function of spoke in water wheel is to support.
Blade: It is a flat surface attached at the tip of the spoke of water wheel. The force exerted by the
water on the flat plate makes the water wheel to rotate.
Shaft: It acts as a supporting and revolving device of water wheel. The rotational speed of the
water wheel is transferred to the spiral tube wheel by gear mechanism through the shaft.

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3.2 Water Wheel and Blade

To design waterwheel and the parameter related to it, first we assume the power input by
water wheel is 30 watt. Assuming the radius of wheel (R) = 1.5 m by referring the relation
Power input in a water wheel
Pin=(1/2 )Av3
Where,
Pi = power input=30 watt,
= density of water=1000 kg/m3
A= area of the blade,
v=velocity of the flowing water= .8m/s (From our experiment data)
From the above equation putting these value we get
Area of the blade A= .23 m3

By trial and hit method we get

Length of the blade (l) = .6m
Width of the blade (w) = .45m
Design Calculation of Number of Blade
More the number of blades, greater is the torque on the water wheel. But after a certain
number of blade, the torque decreases due to blockage of water by the subsequent blade.
Therefore the number of blades should be arranged in such a way that only one blade is fully
immersed at a time. Therefore the number of blades is found to be n 1=8 By taking the overall
view of above point, the angular distance between the spoke is found to be 45 o.as shown in Fig .
3.1.
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Fig. 3.1: Number of blades

Fig . 3.2 Design of water wheel

3.3 Spiral Tube Water Wheel

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The spiral tube water wheel is a modified form of water wheel where spiral tubes are
used instead of buckets. The spiral tube wheel is run by the gear mechanism, the water wheel
rotates due to the flow of the river water along with the help of blades which helps in running
the spiral tube wheel. The spiral tube is designed for a certain height and certain discharge and
has a diameter of 1.5m.The main parts of the spiral tube wheel are

Hollow Shaft
Spoke
Spiral Tube
Rotating Joint
Scoop

Hollow shaft: It acts as a supporting device and it helps in rotating the spiral wheel. Water
collected by the spiral tube is discharge at the outlet with help of hollow shaft,
Spiral tube: It is a long tube coiled eccentrically on the hollow shaft which collects water at each
rotation.
Scoop: Scoop is typically made from a larger diameter pipe and can be used to vary the amount
of water taken in with each revolution. The scoop should be approximately half the volume of
the outer coil and should be enclosed in wire mesh to prevent debris from entering the coils.

3.3.1 Design of Spiral Pump

D=h1= wheel or outer coil diameter and the outer coil head
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H=delivery head, n=no of coil, d=diameter of the pipe, hn=head in nth coil
Boyles law P1V1=PnVn
P1= Patm+D
V1=air volume first or outer coil
Pn= Patm+H
Vn=air volume last or inner coil
V1=(d/2)2D
Vn=(d/2)2hn
Given: H, D & d, find hn and n
To find hn
P1V1=Pn Vn
( Patm+D ) (d/2)2 D= ( Patm+H ) (d/2)2 hm
Therefore hn= ( Patm+D ) D/( Patm+H )
To find n :
n( D+hn ) / 2 = H
Therefore n = 2H / ( D+hn )
Note: The pipe diameter, d, cancels out in the above equations. Once the number of coils
required for a given wheel is determined to provide a given pressure or head, a suitable pipe size
can be selected to form the coils of the spiral pump. When designing a spiral pump, a 20%
margin should be added to the determined coil number. This margin will help account for
different pipe diameters and other variables[].
For H = 9.2m

D = h1 = 1.5

Patm = 10.3m of water

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From above equation we get H n= .9m and n = 8

Fig 3.3 Design diagram of the spiral wheel (All dimensions are in meters).
3.4 Gear Box
For a constant output of discharge and constant head generation by the spiral tube wheel,
the speed of the spiral wheel should be constant. As the velocity of river keeps varying, it affects
the overall speed of the wheel which ultimately affects the discharge output of the pump and
head generation. In order to overcome this practical difficulty, a special attachment (gearbox) is
introduced to have constant output and head.
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The one end of the gear box is attached to the shaft of the main water wheel and the other
end is connected to the shaft of the spiral wheel. The driver gears are attached to the shaft of the
main wheel and driven gears are attached to the solid shaft which is connected to the shaft of the
spiral wheel with Chain drive.
Working of the gear box : Eight number of bicycles sprockets are taken as the gears in the
gearbox .In the driver end four number of gears are present and four gears are present in the
driven end which are called the ratchet wheels. The gears in the driven end are unidirectional.
Each pair of gears in the driver and driven side can be connected by chain drive. The pair with
the maximum rpm will be online and the other pairs will remain idle as the rpm of the shaft will
be more than the ratchet wheel.

Table 3.3 Specification of the Gear Box

Driver gear

no of teeth

Driven gear

no of teeth

Gear 1

48

Gear1

17

Gear2

44

Gear2

17

Gear3

36

Gear3

21

Gear4

17

Gear4

17

22

Gear Ratio
2.82:1

1:1

Fig: 3.4 :

Design diagram of the gear box

3.5 Rotary Joint

The spiral wheel hollow shaft which collects water from spiral tube continuously rotated
and it is not possible to rotate the whole delivery pipe. So there is a need of a joint between the
hollow shaft and the delivery pipe which can provide a frictionless surface to rotated the outlet of
the tube smoothly and air tight chamber to prevent leakage of water.

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Pic Image of the rotary joint used.

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3.6 The Raft

Generally every water wheel are installed in the river base a fixed position, i.e. the centre
of water wheel remain fixed from the water surface. So when water level increase or decrease the
submerge level of blade change which greatly affect the power input by the wheel . If water level
decrease to such point that blade of wheel may not in contact with water to receive it force and if
water level increase to a point maximum part of wheel may inside the water. So it is necessary to
maintain a position at which a required part of blade submerge in water, hence a raft is designed
over which water wheel is installed and which float over water by keeping the water wheel at its
favorable position, what over may be the level of water .
The raft designed in the project tendency to support maximum 300 kg .The raft consist of
wooden block. The dimension of raft is 14 ft. long and 11 ft. wide, 8 drums are used in the raft as
a floating object; each carries a capacity of 55 liters. These terms provides necessary buoyancy
force to keep the raft floating.

Calculation
The volume of a drum (Vr) = .055 m3
The total volume of 8 drums = 8.055 m3= .44 m3
Total buoyancy force given by the drums
Fb = volume of water displaced by the drums weight density of water
= .441000 9.81
= 4316.4 N
The total of weight of the whole system = 300 kg
= 3009.81 N
=2943 N

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Here the buoyancy force is greater than the weight of the whole system. So the whole
system will be float. The 3D design of the raft is shown in Fig . 3.6.

Fig. 3.6: DESIGN OF THE RAFT

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Table 3.1 List Of Parts With Dimensions And Materials Used

Parts
Water
wheel

Spiral tube
wheel

Gear box `

Raft

Diameter of wheel
Shaft length
Shaft diameter
Blade length
Blade breadth
Blade thickness
Spoke
Flange diameter
Flange thickness
Diameter of wheel
Diameter of shaft
Shaft length
Flange diameter
Flange thickness
Spoke
Spiral coil tube diameter
Diameter of driver shaft
Diameter of driven shaft
Number of gear
Gear
1st gear
2nd gear
ratio
3rd gear
4th gear
Length
Breadth
No of drum
Volume of a drum

Dimension
3 m ( blade tip to tip)
1.3 m
1 inch (solid )
.6 m
.45
1 mm
1 inch square bar
(hollow)
1 ft.
3 mm
1.5 m
1.5 inch (hollow)
1.3m
20 cm
4 mm
1 inch square bar
(hollow)
1.5 inch
1 inch
1.4 inch
4
1:1
1.71:1
2.59:1
2.82:1
14 ft.
11 ft.
8
55 liters

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MATERIALS
USED

MILD STEEL

MILD STEEL
STEEL
MILD STEEL

PLASTIC
MILD STEEL
MILD STEEL

STEEL
WOOD
PVC

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FIG : 3.7 : DESIGN DIAGRAM OF THEASSAMBLED VIEWTHE SPIRAL TUBE

WATER WHEEL PUMP

Chapter 4
FABRICATION AND CONSTRUCTION

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FABRICATION
After the design calculation was conducted in the previous chapter, the fabrication is
started which is described in the chapter
4.1 Water Wheel
The water wheel consists of two flanges made of Mild Steel of 30 cm diameter with an
inner hole drilled to 2.54 cm which will be connected to a shaft. 8 spokes of Mild Steel are
welded together to the flanges at the centre from both sides .The spokes are of hollow mild steel
frame (2.54 cm).Flat bars of 2.54 cm length and 3 mm thickness are welded to the spokes in
between for support. Mild steel plates of dimension (.45X.6) m 2 are welded to a frame by gas
welding to form the blades which are fitted to the spokes with nut and bolt.
Pic : 4.1,4.2,4.3,4.4 shows various fabrication processes.

Pic: 4.1 Construction of water wheel

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Pic 4.2 water wheel

Pic 4.2 Water wheel after construction

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Pic 4.3 Waterwheel constructed

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Pic 4.4 Construction of blade

Pic 4.5 Blade with Frame

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4.2 Spiral Wheel

The spiral wheel consists of two flanges made of Mild Steel of 20 cm diameter with an
inner hole drilled to 3.8cm which will be connected to the outlet pipe. 8 nos. of square hollow
bar of (2.54X 2.54) cm2 and 0.75 m long are welded to the flange from both sides to form the
spokes.

Pic: 4.6 Spiral tube wheel

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4.3 Gearbox
For the construction of gearbox angular bar of size2.54 cm and thickness .3 cm are used.
The casing of the gear box has dimension on the water wheel end is (27x27x27) cm 3 and on the
spiral wheel end the dimension are (27x15x15) cm3 are welded. In the gear box a total of eight
gears are used, of which 4 drivers are attached to the water wheel shaft and other four are
attached to the shaft which is connected to spiral tube wheel. All the gears are welded by arc
welding and gas welding.

Pic: 4.7 Construction of Gear Box

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Pic: 4.8 Contruction of Gear Box shaft.

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Pic 4.9 Image of the gearbox

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Pic 4.10 Gearbox

Pic 4.11 Gear box

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4.4: Raft
A wooden frame of 14 ft. (4.2672 m) length and 11 ft. (3.3528m) breadth is constructed.
Eight numbers of drums are being fitted to it for buoyancy as mentioned in the design
calculations. This will act as the float and the spiral tube water wheel pump will be on the float.

Pic 4.12 Image of the raft constructed

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Chapter 5
INSTALLATION

40

INSTALLATION

Pic 5.1 Installation in process

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Pic 5.2 Installation in the bhogdoi river

42

Chapter 6
RESULT output

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RESULT
On installation of the project on the Bhogdoi river, readings were taken after the project is
practically run in the river .The maximum height to which water is pumped successfully is
found to be 18 feet . By taking different height of the output ,other parameters are measured.
The rpm of both the wheel is measured by tachometer and it is found to be 2.4 rpm and 4.6 on
water wheel and spiral tube respectively during the load condition.
To measure the discharge rate, a procedure is followed to count the time required to fill a 2 litre
bucket at 18ft,9ft and at the shaft level and times are recorded as 24seconds,
14seconds,5seconds rspectively.

Table 6.1
SL
NO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

HEAD
(meter)
9
9
9
3
3
3
.5
.5
.5

VOLUME(cubicme
ter)
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2

TIME(secon
d)
24
27
26
14
16
18
5
8
7

AVERAGE TIME
(second)
25.67

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6.67

Calculation of discharge and work output at different head

From the above tabulated data discharge and work done are calculated as
CASE 1:

At delivery head 9meter

It takes 25.67s to fill = 210-3 m3 of water
Therefore discharge(Q 1) =(210-3 )25.67
=0.077910-3 m3/S
Work done(w 1)=Qh
= 0.077910 -391000
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CASE 2:

At delivery head 3 meter

It takes 16s to fill =210-3m3 of water
Therefore discharge(Q 2)=210-316
=0.12510-3m3/s
Work done(W 2)=Qh
=0.12510-331000
=0.375 watt

CASE 3:

At delivery .head 0.5meter

It takes 6.67s to fill=210-3m3 of water
Therefore discharge(Q 3)=210-36.67
=0.29910-3m3/s

Work done(W 3)=Qh

=o.299 10-3.5 1000
=0.149watt

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250

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HEIGHT in meters

150

100

50

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Fig 6.1 Discharge vs height

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300

250

200
DISCHARGE IN ml

Work Done in Watt

150

100

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Fig 6.2 Discharge vs work done

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4

Work Done in Watt

0
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Fig 6.3 Height vs workdone

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CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY

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CONCLUSION

The project is designed for the Bhogdoi River and the possible datas, calculations,
materials required for this project has been collected and the fabrication work has been
completed, which was then installed in the Bhogdoi River following which the discharge and the
head was being calculated and it was found that at a river velocity of 0.5m/sec a head of 18 ft is
achieved and water is discharged at an average rate of 70 ml in 25.6 seconds , the details of
which are presented in this report .The design calculation is done by considering the power input
to the water wheel as 30 watt and discharge head 20 ft.
It was found that, at delivery head 9meter,it takes 25.67 seconds to fill 210-3 m3 of water ,and discharge
is found to be 0.077910-3m3/s and the work done is 0.7011 watt , at a head of 3 meters, it takes 16
seconds to fill 210-3m3 of water and the discharge is 0.12510-3m3/s and work
done is 0.375 watt and at a head of 0.5 meters, it takes 6.67 seconds to fill 210-3m3 of
water and the discharge is 0.29910-3m3/s and work done is 0.149 watt

The effort of making a fuel free device to pump water upto 20 ft without use of fuel is partially
achieved . Although the calculated head could not be achieved,it is evident that with
the increase in river velocity, the head , discharge and work output will increase, as
20 ft head was being calculated for a river water velocity of 0.8 m/sec whereas the
present velocity of the Bhogdoi river is 0.5 m/sec
It was our first attempt to design and fabricate a working project, which could not
have been possible without the proper guidance of our respected guides, and
respected teachers of the workshop of our college. Utmost care was taken to
decrease the cost of construction and make it a low budget device, but due to
unavailability of materials and proper equipments, the project expenditure was too
high which can be omitted in case of mass production of the device. Any other way
to increase the cost of production can be a scope of improvement in the project

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