Date received: SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING COVER SHEET FOR CONTINUOUSLY ASSESSED WORK Course Code EG 3018 – Fluids Open Channel Turbine Testing Lab Report SECTION 1: Student to complete SURNAME/FAMILY NAME: Lindie FIRST NAME: Thomas. A ID Number: 51011245 Date submitted: 13th December 2012 Please: Read the statement on “Cheating” and definition of “Plagiarism” contained over page. The full Code of Practice on Student Discipline‚ Appendix 5.15 of the Academic Quality Handbook is at: www.abdn
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Stuart Hall Race -- the Floating Signifier directed by Sut Jally‚ Media Education Foundation‚ 1997 Classification and power work together. Classification maintains the order in any system. We cannot think without classification. The survival of biological thinking Race is one of the major concepts which organize the great classification systems (including gender and class) which operate in human societies. Classification seems basic to human thinking. What is the right strategy
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experiment 5 is an exercise in hydrostatic. It is designed to demonstrate the stability of a floating cylinder and to familiarize the student with the concept of buoyancy‚ metacenter and metacentric height. It is also an experimental verification of the theory presented in the textbook. The center of the buoyancy of a floating body depends on the shape of the body and on the position in which it is floating. If the body is disturbed by a small angle of heel‚ the center of buoyancy changes because
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Fire Ants Create Floating Rafts to Face Flooding Mounds of fire ants can be found floating around waters in South Carolina. It is part of the tiny insect’s way of surviving the floods that have affected the state. In a video captured by WSAV 3 photojournalist Chris Murray‚ the ants are shown in a mound floating on top of flood waters near Charleston. WSAV 3’s reports that the ants use their claws‚ jaws and sticky pads on their legs to stick together. There is an oily fluid that keeps them on a
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advantage. Airflow control is also better with this arrangement. Task P8 Impulse turbine- these turbines change the direction of flow of a high velocity fluid jet the resulting impulse spins the turbine and leaves the fluid flow with diminished kinetic energy. Reaction turbines- these turbines develop torque by reacting to the fluid pressure or weight. The pressure of the fluid changes as it passes through the turbine rotor blades. Task P8 B) Creep is permanent growth over time of component
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STABILITY OF FLOATING BODIES (White pp 92 – 95) A floating body is STABLE if‚ when it is displaced‚ it returns to equilibrium. A floating body is UNSTABLE if‚ when it is displaced‚ it moves to a new equilibrium. Consider a floating body tilted by an angle ‚ as shown below. For the untilted body the point G is the centre of gravity of the body where the body weight‚ W‚ acts. The point B is the centre of buoyancy (the centroid of the displaced volume of fluid) where the upward buoyancy force
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Swarthmore College May 3 2006 i Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abstract List of Tables List of Figures 1. Introduction 1.1 Goals 2. Project Specifications 2.1 Structural Design Constraints 2.2 Initial Dam Design Parameters 2.3 Turbine Selection 3. Design 3.1 Framing 3.2 Flooring and Walls 3.3 Bolts & Connections 3.4 Selection of RCC Compaction Method 3.5 RCC Consistency tests 3.6 Design of Concrete Forms 3.7 Structural Load Calculations 3.8 Dam Load Calculation 3.9
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Wheel (Impulse Turbine) Purpose: To investigate typical performance characteristics of an impulse turbine. Apparatus: Armfield Pelton Turbine‚ Armfield Hydraulics Bench and digital tachometer. Sketch a labeled schmematic diagram of the apparatus. Theory and Definitions: (Ref. Munson/Young/Okiishi A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics‚ 3/e‚ p. 479) 1. Ideal Power and efficiency From 1-D energy equation‚ derive the ideal (inviscid flow) power output of an impulse turbine in terms of the
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auto parts manufacturer is planning to expand its struggling ABC Filters into filters for Gas Turbines. Recently ABC ’s R&D department developed a cartridge-shaped ’E-10 ’ synthetic filter with a lot of superior features than it competitors. However ABC lacks deep knowledge about the natural gas power generation filter market. This presentation is attempting to assess the attractiveness of Gas Turbine filter market and providing a market strategy to ABC Filters for their product launch. Market
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and bluster‚ prodded by the restless wind. Ski resorts don’t like to talk about wind–or storms in general—because it scares away the tourists‚ who somehow forget that winter is messy‚ cold‚ and wild‚ as if snow were laid down softly each night like a blanket over a sleeping baby. But wind is a fact of life in the mountains‚ as much a part of the weather as snow itself‚ and those who grumble about it or say it does nothing but blow overlook the fact that the wind gives as much as it takes. It can seem
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