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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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    A pump as turbine (PAT), also known as a pump in reverse, is an unconventional type of reaction water turbine, which behaves in a similar manner to that...
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    additionally referred to the Tesla turbine as a multiple-disk centrifugal pump. One of Tesla's intended implementations for this turbine was for the generation of...
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  • The Euler pump and turbine equations are the most fundamental equations in the field of turbomachinery. These equations govern the power, efficiencies...
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    "Regenerative turbine pumps: product brochure" (PDF). PSG Dover: Ebsra. pp. 3-4-7. Retrieved 30 April 2021. "Regenerative Turbine Pump vs Centrifugal Pump". Dyna...
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    A ram air turbine (RAT) is a small wind turbine that is connected to a hydraulic pump, or electrical generator, installed in an aircraft and used as a...
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    available from several authors. Hrovat derived the equations of the pump, turbine, stator, and conservation of energy. Four first-order differential equations...
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    unit or vacuum cleaner. The reverse function of the centrifugal pump is a water turbine converting potential energy of water pressure into mechanical rotational...
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  • Specific speed (category Pumps)
    used. Performance is defined as the ratio of the pump or turbine against a reference pump or turbine, which divides the actual performance figure to provide...
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    T–s diagram. In an ideal Rankine cycle the pump and turbine would be isentropic: i.e., the pump and turbine would generate no entropy and would hence maximize...
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    A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the...
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  • Francis pump-turbine and motor-generator units. Three units will be of variable speed with the remaining of synchronous speed. Each turbine will have...
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    submersible oil pump in an oil field. In 1929, Pleuger Pumps (today Pleuger Industries) developed the design of the submersible turbine pump, the forerunner...
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    The Deriaz turbine, presented by engineer Paul Deriaz, was the first diagonal hydraulic pump-turbine to be designed. In contrast to most hydraulic machines...
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    Turbopump (redirect from Turbo pump)
    A turbopump is a propellant pump with two main components: a rotodynamic pump and a driving gas turbine, usually both mounted on the same shaft, or sometimes...
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    producing 100,000 farm windmills each year, mostly for water-pumping. By the 1930s, use of wind turbines in rural areas was declining as the distribution system...
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    electrical demand, the stored water is released through turbines to produce electric power. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity allows energy from intermittent...
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    A water turbine is a rotary machine that converts kinetic energy and potential energy of water into mechanical work. Water turbines were developed in...
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  • container, at significant pressure, thus driving a turbine. When there is spare electricity the water is pumped out, allowing electricity to be generated at...
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    Fire Pumps for Fire Protection. Fire pumps are powered most commonly by an electric motor or a diesel engine, or, occasionally a steam turbine. If the...
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    near Wishon Reservoir and houses three 404 MW Francis pump turbine-generators. The Helms Pumped Storage project was designed to be used with the Diablo...
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    Newton's second Law of Motion and Euler's pump and turbine equation for compressible fluids. Centrifugal pumps are also turbomachines that transfer energy...
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    pump-turbine. These four reversible pump-turbines are of slip energy recovery variable-speed type. During periods of low demand, water can be pumped from...
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    intervention. Taum Sauk was also the first pure pumped storage plant in the United States. The pump-turbine units were uprated in July 1972 from their initial...
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    stage turbine wheel. The gas left the turbine through the exhaust ducting. Three dynamic seals in series prevented the pump fluid and turbine gas from...
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    the main turbine for use in the regenerative feed heaters and for driving the turbine driven steam feed pump. No. 7 HP heaters and the turbine driven feed...
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  • ISBN 978-0-12-391458-3. Manderla, M.; Kiniger, K.; Koutnik, J. (2014). "Improved pump turbine transient behaviour prediction using a Thoma number-dependent hillchart...
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    reaction turbine that was put to work there. In 1807, Polikarp Zalesov designed and constructed an impulse turbine, using it for the fire pump operation...
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  • power from the flow of water, the turbine is mounted below a raft, driving a power system, typically a lift irrigation pump or generator, on top of the raft...
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  • original (PDF) on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2014. The geothermal steam turbine generator is produced by Fuji Japan Ltd[permanent dead link‍] Yokogawa...
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