Pico hydro: Clean power from small streams

Proceedings of the 3rd WSEAS International Conference on Energy Planning, Energy Saving, Environmental Education, EPESE '09, Renewable Energy Sources, RES '09, Waste Management, WWAI '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 414-419

  Sopian, Kamaruzzaman ^a   Razak, Juhari Ab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Pico hydro; Run of river; Rural electrification; Small scale hydropower; Turbine

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149296783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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