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converting household water pressure to electricity

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Hello all,

I want to do a project to convert household water pressure to usable energy.After reading some pages related to it,i got the idea that water pressure can be converted to electrical energy using a turbine and a generator. Is there any way of converting household water pressure to electricity. Please sugest.
 

If you want power, you have to have both pressure and flow.
You get charged for that flow....
 
You cannot convert the pressure to energy, any more than you can power a circuit from a battery without wiring it up. The water must flow, as must electrons.

You can easily convert the energy-transferring flow of water into electricity. This is exactly what hydroelectric power stations do. There are even commercially made small generators for one to use to provide power to off-grid places. They are basically just a turbine in a pipe through which the water flows.

Doing it in your home, using flowing mains water, is a waste of good water though and won't yield enough electricity to be worth the waste.
 
As has been stated above, the water you waste in the process will be more expensive than the electricity you generate. And just in case you're doing this because you don't pay for your own water, doing so in order to lower your electricity bill may be illegal.
 
Better to investigate wind and photovoltaic power.

Unless you have land with a large and/or fast-flowing river, generating electricity from water is a non-starter.
 
dick_freebird said:
If you want power, you have to have both pressure and flow.
You get charged for that flow....
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Hello dick_freebird,

Thank you for your reply. I agree that we get charged for the flow, but while using it if it can generate some energy for emergency conditions that may be helpful.

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FoxyRick said:
You cannot convert the pressure to energy, any more than you can power a circuit from a battery without wiring it up. The water must flow, as must electrons.

You can easily convert the energy-transferring flow of water into electricity. This is exactly what hydroelectric power stations do. There are even commercially made small generators for one to use to provide power to off-grid places. They are basically just a turbine in a pipe through which the water flows.

Doing it in your home, using flowing mains water, is a waste of good water though and won't yield enough electricity to be worth the waste.
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Hello FoxyRich,

Thanks for the info. It is the flow that needs to be converted to electricity. You mentioned the commercially available small generators with turbines.If it is possible to manually design one such generator, I would like to try it.

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FoxyRick said:
Better to investigate wind and photovoltaic power.

Unless you have land with a large and/or fast-flowing river, generating electricity from water is a non-starter.
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Wind and photovoltaic power are better. Still i want to give it a try

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mtwieg said:
As has been stated above, the water you waste in the process will be more expensive than the electricity you generate. And just in case you're doing this because you don't pay for your own water, doing so in order to lower your electricity bill may be illegal.
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Hello mtwieg,

Thanks for your suggestion. I am trying to use the flow (while we use water) to generate energy so that we can store it and use it in emergency conditions.
 



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