Abstract—Pico hydro is a green energy that consumes small streams to generate electricity without depends on any sources of non-renewable energy. This green scheme offers a cheap, efficient, reliable and cost effective of alternative energy and hence, there is no need to worries about the fuel source, capital cost, pollution and life expectancy. Even though the power generated is less than 5kW, but the benefit gain from this energy is the ability to raise the standard living of residents in remote areas. In this paper, model of a propeller turbine is made based on data of thesis “Design of a Low Head Pico Hydro Turbine for Rural Electrification in Cameroon” (Patrick Ho-Yan, 2012) and experimental work for pico turbine done by (Patrick Ho-Yan, 2012), is taken for the reference for simulation work. This CFD result will be compared with experimental results for validation. After doing simulation work an experimental results and CFD results are seems to be same. Their nature of curve from the results are approximately matching. This variation is about 31.21% with respect to experimental results

Index Terms—Pico turbine, Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Flow analysis

Cite: Urvin Rameshbhai Patel, Devendra A Patel and Manish S Maisuria, "Analyse the Effect of Mass Flow Rate on the Efficiency of Pico Turbine & Validate With Experimental Results," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 250-255, July 2014.