Mangal Water Wheel Turbine Helps In Irrigation & Saves Electricity

Year after year, Indian farmers are spending heavily on diesel or electricity to drive water from river streams for irrigation of their fields. But, this all has been changed due to an ingenious eco-friendly idea of Mangal Singh, a rural scientist from Bundelkhand region. He has devised a fuel-efficient turbine to to harness the energy of flowing water such that it will cost the farmers a dime to lift water for field irrigation and also be useful for fisheries, forestry and other cottage industries. He has patented it under the name Mangal Singh Water Wheel Turbine Pump-cum-PTP machine.



The farmers call his setup as 'The Mangal Turbine' and it has been successfully implemented in Bundelkhand and Uttarakhand regions. It makes use of a water-wheel that rotates on a water head as low as one metre. It steps up the rotation through a suitable gearbox in the range of 1500-1800 RPM (rotations per minute) and uses the available mechanical power by connecting one end of the output shaft with centrifugal irrigation pump and the other with a suitable pulley to operate other machines and also an alternator to generate electricity. We congratulate Mr. Singh and wish him success in setting up these turbines across India in rural areas wherever necessary.

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