1Research scholar, Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat
2Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat
Online published on 19 January, 2022.
The objective of this paper is to find out the best turbine for the canal base powerhouses located at four chainages of Vadodara Branch Canal (VBC), and also to find the priority ranking of turbines. To find the best turbine, a decision criteria matrix of five criteria (Price of turbine, Life of turbine, Efficiency of turbine Maintenance and Civil structure requirements) and four alternatives (Kaplan turbine, Bulb turbine, Screw type turbine and Cross flow turbine) have been considered. The consistency of the matrix has been checked using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Multi Criteria Decision Making methods like Weighted Sum Method (WSM) and PROMETHEE have been used for the analysis. Finally, from the results of PROMETHEE and Weighted Sum Model methods it is concluded that the best turbine is Bulb turbine. And the priority ranking is Bulb, Screw, Kaplan and Cross flow turbine for all four chainage locations.
Turbine, Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), Weighted Sum Model (WSM), PROMETHEE, Hydro power
