Manuals and Guides

Manual	Author and year	Description
Micro Hydro Design Manual	Harvey; 1993	A guide to small scale water power schemes
Designing and Building Mini and Micro Hydro Power Schemes: A Practical Guide	Luis Rodriguez, Teodoro Sanchez (Practical Action: 30. März 2011)
A Design manual		Description of turbines, governing, belt drives,shafts, balancing, safety, electical power in details with examples and mathematical presentations.
Micro-Hydro design aids manual	Chitrakar; 2004	Procedural guidelines for Micro-Hydro power projects in Nepal (hydrology, headworks, settling basins, penstock and power calculation, Transmission and distribution, costs and financial analysis…
Druckstossberechnung		Explanation for mathematical calculations concerning turbines
Micro hydro power sourcebook 1	Allen R. Inversin, 1986	measuring head and discharge; designs flow; site selection (with examples of many countries)
Micro hydro power sourcebook 2	check link above	Civil works in details
Micro hydro power sourcebook 3	check link above	All about turbines in details
Micro hydro power sourcebook 4	check link above	explanations of the hydropower electrical and mechanical procedures 8) governing
Manual on Hydro-Micro development (South Asian case)		Brief explanations a photos for micro-hydro power projects in South Asia
Layman's book:How to develop a Small Hydro Site	Penche, Dr. Ingeniero de Minas; 1998	Definitions, site evaluation methodology, hydrolic structures, environmental impact and administrative procedures in deep details.
Guide on How to Develop a Small Hydro Plant - Part 1 Updated verison of Layman's book: Guide on How to Develop a Small Hydro Plant - Part 2	ESHA, 2004	Definitions, site evaluation methodology, hydrolic structures, environmental impact and administrative procedures in deep details.
Hydropower enginneering (3578 KB)		General information and history of the micro-hydro projects
Handbook for developing micro-hydro in British Columbia (315 KB)	BChydro; 2004	Site selection, cost and financing, permitting process, grid interconnection and energy sales, construction, operation, maintenance and surveillance
Manual literature recommendations (ICIMOD publications) (20KB)	International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development; 1999	Collection of manuals' titels and summaries
Guidelines for detailed feasability studies of micro-hydro projects (691 KB)	Energy Sector Assistance Program; 2003	Civil, mechanical and electrical components
Case studies	Nottigham Trent University; 2002/1999	Case studies on Micro Hydro in Kenya and Nepal
Hydraulic engineering manual vol. 2	Arter,Meier; 1990	Harnessing waterpower on a small scale (performance test on cross flow turbines)
Hydraulic engineering manual vol. 3	Nakarmi, Arter, Widmer, Eisenring; 1993	Cross flow turbine designsand equipment engineering
Hydraulic engineering manual vol. 5	Widmer, Arter; 1992	"Village electrification (generators, control system, power factor correction, earthing, distribution system, commercial engineering, Tariffs & financial evaluation"
Hydraulic engineering manual vol. 9	Eisenring, 1991	Micro pelton turbines
Hydraulic engineering manual vol. 10	Chapallaz, Ghali, Eichenberger, Fischer; 1992	Manual of induction motors used as generators (basic principals of synchronus and induction generators)
Hydraulic engineering manual vol. 11	Chapallaz, Eichenberger, Fischer; 1992	Manual of pumps used in turbines
Pico hydro for village Power (2867 KB)	Maher, Smith; 2001	A practical manual for schemes up to 5KW in hilly areas
Good and Bad of Micro hydro Power - Vol 1	ACE/GTZ 2009	Site Identification, Civil Works, Electro-Mechanical
Good and Bad of Micro hydro Power - Vol 2	ACE/GTZ 2009	Transmission 6 Distribution, House Installations, Management & Administration, Utilization of Energy
Bon & Mauvais Exemples d'une Mini-Centrale Hydroélectrique	ACE/GTZ 2010
Scout Guide	Hydro Scout Guide - GTZ/Schnitzer 2009 - english
Scout Guide Madagascar	Hydro Scout Guide - short version Madagascar; 2010	french simplified version
Manual Microturbinas Axiales Simplex	GIZ EnDev (Nicaragua/Honduras)E.Paramo	spanish manual about construction of simple axial turbines for MHP
Training on pico cross flow - Manual	Crispen Norman Zana, Maurico Gnecco, Hilario Saenz Palomque, Manica, Mozambique, May 2010	The manual describe in words, pictures and drawing the production process of Pico cross flow trubines.
Pumps as Turbines		It is possible to use water pumps "backwards" as turbines. Advantages is a wide availability also from spare parts. => Manual how to plan a site by using a Pump as Turbine
Environment Assessment and Watershed Action Planning - Manual	Katharina Meder, 2011, EnDev Ethiopia