Hydro Turbine Design in a VR Environment E. Goede 1) ‚ A. Kaps 1)‚ A. Ruprecht 1)‚ U. Woessner2) 1) 2) Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery (IHS)‚ University of Stuttgart Computing Center (RUS)‚ University of Stuttgart Introduction Usually hydraulic turbines have to be designed individually according to the local operating conditions of power station such as discharge‚ head and given geometrical situations. This requires a tailor-made design mainly for the turbine runners
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three-dimensional flow-field and relative pathlines for the rotating flow in a Tesla disc turbine Sayantan Sengupta‚ Abhijit Guha ⇑ Mechanical Engineering Department‚ Indian Institute of Technology‚ Kharagpur‚ Kharagpur 721302‚ India a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 22 December 2012 Received in revised form 18 June 2013 Accepted 8 September 2013 Available online 19 September 2013 Keywords: Tesla turbine Absolute pathline Relative pathline 3-D CFD simulation Flow reversal
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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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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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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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FFRANCIS TURBINE QUESTIONS & DISCUSSIONS 7.1 QUESTIONS 1. Plot a graph of: a. Turbine velocity versus flow rate. b. Turbine velocity versus output torque. c. Turbine velocity versus hydraulic power. d. Turbine velocity versus mechanical power. e. Turbine velocity versus efficiency. 2. Give your comment(s) from the graph obtained. Based on the graph Turbine velocity versus flow rate‚ it is shown that line for both z=50% and 100%is increasing when turbine velocity
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL Steam Turbine is a type of turbo machine. Turbo machine are those devices in which energy is transferred either to or from‚ a continuously flowing fluid by the dynamic action of one or more moving blade rows. In steam turbine energy is transferred from fluid to blade rows and is decreasing along the flow directions. It is power producing thermodynamics device. Steam turbine converts heat energy of steam (at high pressure and temperature) into mechanical
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A turbine is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. 1.Steam Turbines 2. Wind Turbines 3. Water Turbines 4. Gas Turbines It is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic efficiency through the use of multiple stages in the expansion of the steam
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Design Tesla Turbine | | MLP’s MARE 451 Sr. Design Tesla Turbine | Table of Contents Duties and responsibilities Page 3 Discussion of Tesla Turbine Page 4 Brian’s Responsibilities Page 7 Drag Force equations Page 7 Torque equations Page 9 Horsepower equations Page 10 Pump specifications Page 11 Pump equations Page 12 Bearing selections Page 15 Pro E Modeling Page 17 Tesla Turbine Results Page 25 End Remarks and
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for large-scale offshore floating wind turbines was introduced by Professor William E. Heronemus at the University of Massachusetts in 1972‚ but it was not until the mid 1990’s‚ after the commercial wind industry was well established‚ that the topic was taken up again by the mainstream research community. Current fixed-bottom technology has seen limited deployment to water depths of 20 m. As the technology is advanced into deeper water‚ floating wind turbine platforms maybe the most economical means
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