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Home Made Francis turbine | 4 comments (4 topical, editorial)
Re: Home Made Francis turbine (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by Flux on Fri Apr 4th, 2008 at 12:36:19 AM MST
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If you have a long pipe run you will need some large and expensive pipe to use a propeller turbine. It will be somewhere between a Francis and a Kaplan but with none of the versatility of the true Kaplan. If you can match the specific speed then you may get an efficiency slightly above that of a Banki, but the chances of hitting everything right with a boat prop are not high.

Sounds like a perfect set up for a Turgo and well within reach of a Pelton. I think at that head an impulse turbine will work out far cheaper than a reaction turbine with its large diameter draught tube. The Banki will never reach the performance of a well designed reaction or even that of a Turgo or Pelton, but its simplicity and tolerance of crude construction will likely keep it ahead of your simple propeller turbine.

Flux



Home Made Francis turbine | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 editorial)

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