Waterwheel Design for Hydro EnergyHydro energy is a technology that converts the kinetic energy of moving water into mechanical or electrical energy, and one of the earliest devices used to convert the energy of moving water into usable work was the Waterwheel Design.Water wheel design has evolved over time with some water wheels oriented vertically, some horizontally and some with elaborate pulleys and gears attached, but they are all designed to do the same function and that is too, “convert the linear motion of falling water into a rotary motion which can be used to drive any piece of machinery connected to it via a rotating shaft”.Typical Waterwheel DesignEarly Waterwheel Design were quite primitive and simple machines consisting of a vertical wooden wheel with wooden blades or buckets fixed equally around their circumference all supported on a horizontal shaft with the force of the water flowing underneath it pushing the wheel in a tangential direction against the blades.These ver...
