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    The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined...
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    Francis turbine Kaplan turbine Tyson turbine Deriaz turbine Gorlov helical turbine Water wheel Pelton wheel Turgo turbine Cross-flow turbine (also known...
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    Viktor Kaplan (27 November 1876 – 23 August 1934) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria...
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    Francis turbine is a type of water turbine. It is an inward-flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts. Francis turbines are the...
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  • turbine is a mixed hydraulic turbine (the inlet velocity has Radial and tangential components) while the Kaplan turbine is an axial hydraulic turbine...
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    impulse water turbine. Francis turbine, a type of widely used water turbine. Kaplan turbine, a variation of the Francis Turbine. Turgo turbine, a modified...
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  • subsidiary of Kaplan, Inc., now known as Purdue University Global Kaplan turbine, a propeller-type water turbine William "Billy" Kaplan-Altman, known...
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    completed in 1962. By this time the dam, spillway, penstock, and two 40 MW Kaplan turbine generators were built in the power station. In August 1982 a 50 MW generator...
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    Water Resources. The run-of-the-river dam's power house contains two Kaplan turbine generators with a combined capacity of 4.14 MW and is operated by Enel...
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    a power plant on the intake for the main canal contains five 50MW Kaplan turbine-generators. The total installed capacity of the power facilities is...
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    Leobersdorf. Ing. Viktor Kaplan worked at the Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik from 1901 to 1903 and developed his idea of the Kaplan turbine there. "Dauersiedlungsraum...
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  • Polish pool player Valery Kaplan (born 1943), Soviet speed skater Viktor Kaplan, Austrian inventor of the Kaplan turbine Yıldız Kaplan, Turkish model and pop...
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    storage Hydropower-Energy from moving water Hygroelectricity Implosion Kaplan turbine Light crude oil Liquid fuel Liquid nitrogen engine Marine current power...
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    The Kaplan turbines of the Poulaphouca station were delivered by the Swiss manufacturer Ateliers des Charmilles from Geneva, Switzerland. Each turbine has...
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    high volume of water moves through it. Thus, low-head, high-volume Kaplan turbine runners drive generation. United States portal Water portal Renewable...
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    (toe) of the main dam section and contains 3 x 37.5 MW Kaplan turbine and 2 x 24 MW Francis turbine generators for an installed capacity of 259.5 MW. Power...
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    composed of three vertical-shaft Francis turbine generators (commissioned in 1929) and one vertical-shaft Kaplan turbine generator (commissioned in 1934) operating...
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    six-bladed Kaplan turbine designed by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and a General Electric generator rated at 45.2 MW. The original turbine was...
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    Deriaz turbine does not follow a full axial nor radial direction but is a diagonal mixture of the two. Deriaz turbines, like Kaplan turbines, can also...
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    propeller-type turbine. An alternative to the traditional kaplan turbine is a large diameter, slow turning, permanent magnet, sloped open flow VLH turbine with...
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    of the vertical units use S. Morgan Smith Kaplan turbines. The plant uses one of the first Kaplan turbines installed in the United States, which is listed...
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    twelfth turbine began on the south side of the dam. This is also a Kaplan turbine rated at 128 MW. The new turbine will allow the ten old turbines to only...
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  • module made by STMicroelectronics, Geneva, Switzerland Usage: Kaplan turbine; Francis turbine; small hydropower structures; pumped storage hydroelectric...
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  • medical discovery. Kaplan turbine was invented by Viktor Kaplan who obtained his first patent for an adjustable blade propeller turbine in 1912. Tent with...
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    navigation and water supply. It powers a 1,248 MW station with 16 x 78 MW Kaplan turbine-generators. Work on this dam began in 1963 and was not completed until...
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    77.62944 (Kulhal Power Plant). The power plant contains three 10 MW Kaplan turbine-generators and has a design hydraulic head of 18 m (59 ft). Once discharged...
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    station and rejoins the River Awe, flowing into Loch Etive. The turbine is of the Kaplan type, designed and constructed by Boving and Company of London...
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    additional embankment dams. The power plant contains 1 Francis- and 1 Kaplan turbine-generator. The total nameplate capacity is 122 MW. Its average annual...
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  • 2012 a third Kaplan turbine-generator, rated at 24 MW, was commissioned. In January and June 2013, the original two 20 MW Kaplan turbine-generators were...
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  • flow of 122.4 cubic metres per second. The unit is equipped with a Kaplan turbine and was first synchronized on May 26, 2003. A fish habitat compensation...
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