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    The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. The Pelton wheel extracts...
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    related to Francis turbine. Draft tube Evolution from Francis turbine to Kaplan turbine Hydropower Jonval turbine Kaplan turbine Pelton wheel Sensor fish...
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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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    accelerating the fluid with a nozzle. Pelton wheels and de Laval turbines use this process exclusively. Impulse turbines do not require a pressure casement...
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    The Turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. Operational Turgo turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87%. In...
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    efficiency of a cross-flow turbine is somewhat less than a Kaplan, Francis or Pelton turbine. However, the cross-flow turbine has a flat efficiency curve...
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    the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Recognized as one of the fathers...
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    power station is the smallest of the four, producing 120 MW from five Pelton turbines with a gross head of 1,748 m (5,735 ft). The Fionnay Power Station...
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  • theoretical head pressure; g: gravitational acceleration For the case of a Pelton turbine the static component of the head is zero, hence the equation reduces...
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  • three Pelton turbines, with each turbine rated at 423 MW (~567,000 HP); note that the turbine acceptance testing process reported a maximum turbine output...
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    where it reaches the underground power station. It contains two 30 MW Pelton turbine-generators. The difference in elevation between the reservoir and the...
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    credits Carbon Tax Draft tube Francis turbine Gorlov helical turbine Hydroelectricity Hydropower Pelton wheel Screw turbine Sensor fish, a device used to study...
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  • 5868194 (Tala Hydroelectric Power Station)) which contains six 170 MW Pelton turbine-generators. The difference in elevation between the dam and the power...
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    power station includes three 87 MW Pelton turbines, in service since 1964, and one 140 MW Francis reversible pump-turbine, that was added to the complex in...
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    below-ground levels. On the above-ground level, there are four 150 MW Pelton turbine-generators which are used for normal conventional hydroelectric power...
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  • located downstream on the Alaknanda River and will contain four 130 MW Pelton turbine-generators. The barrage is being constructed across the Dhauliganga...
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    grid. The other four are single-phase generators are connected to Pelton turbines which have combined capacity of 52 MW to supply the German 15 kV AC...
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  • annual production of 733 GWh. The two 63.5 MW units, equipped with pelton turbines, were first synchronized on February 10 and 12, 1985. The watershed...
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  • Pavlova Payne's grey – William Payne Peavey – Joseph Peavey Pelton turbine – Lester Allan Pelton Penning trap – Frans Michel Penning Petri dish – Julius Richard...
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  • manufactured turbines. The mostly used turbines are Pelton and Cross-flow types. Most of the MHP turbines are manufactured locally. The first turbine manufactured...
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    total gross power rating for the plant, including two 2.4 megawatt Pelton turbine-generators that power Hoover Dam's own operations is a maximum capacity...
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    stages share same powerhouse with total eight Pelton turbine units. Each of the two stages has four turbines having capacity of 65 MW each for 1st stage...
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    furnace displayed at Kjelsås Birkeland–Eyde furnace exhibited in Notodden Pelton turbine runner and nozzle of a Birkeland–Eyde electric arc furnace exhibited...
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  • pointing skywards. The Pelton wheel turbine (better described as a radial turbine) translates the mechanical action of the Pelton wheel rotating in the...
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  • initially equipped with five 6,800 kW generators, connected to Pelton turbines. The turbines sat in a deep rock excavation, as close to sea level as possible...
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    to the power station, which contains six 170 megawatts (230,000 hp) Pelton turbine-generators. The Tala dam is located about 3 km downstream of Chukha...
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  • sending water to the underground power house which contains 3 x 110 MW Pelton turbine-generators. After the power plant, water is discharged through a tail...
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    its energy provision was replaced by a hydraulic engine powered by a Pelton turbine. In 1948 this in turn was replaced by an electric motor. There are three...
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  • (Papenoo 2) which contains one 4 MW Pelton turbine-generators. Lastly, Papenoo 3 contains two 4 MW Pelton turbine-generators and is located at 17°33′9...
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    three Francis turbines. The water then drops another 1,014 m (3,327 ft) to the Riddes generating station, where it drives five Pelton turbines with a combined...
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