induction motor/generator

[gorwell]

Hi, I am hoping to install a grid connected hydro power scheme approx 10kw. Trying to get a handle on the induction motor/generator. I understand about paralell connection of a 3 phase motor to mains: connect it to my waterwheel, speed it up to 1500+rpm (UK grid,230/400v)and it should generate. Simple and elegant.
Now with single phase: will a 3 phase motor, connected to 1 phase when spun up to speed (obviously it won`t self start) act as a generator in the same way?
Will the generation be smooth or in any way lumpy due to 2 missing phases?
Motors I have are 3 ph star/delta (star start, delta run). If the above works I guess I would need to run the motor in star and use only one of the legs. Would continuous running in star damage the motor?
What would happen if you connected all three motor coils to the same phase? Would it generate more efficiently or in some way explode?

 

[waross]

[flush]

 

[itsmoked]

Hahah

Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.-

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[gorwell]

Translation? (for those of us not au fait with iconography)
Regards

 

[itsmoked]

gorwell; I was teasing waross because he started talking about windmill details when this thread is about a hydro-plant. He confused it with another thread that was recently active.

He responded:

: How embarrassing!
[flush]: My mind is going down the drain.
: A mind is a horrible thing to waste.
: I am becoming schizophrenically paranoid.
: Someone should beat me with a stick.


Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.-

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[gorwell]

"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in't!"

 

[electricpete]

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[gorwell]

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Teiresias: Nay, art not thou most skilled to unravel dark speech?
Exit Oedipus stage left, confused.