The water passes through a large, rectangular opening to drive the turbine blades, in contrast to the small, highpressure jets used for pelton and. They can handle a higher flow rate than a physically similarsized pelton turbine and the rotor is slightly cheaper to manufacture. Turgo turbine was developed gilkes energy company in 1919. Analysis of the mini turgo hydro turbine performance for different. For analysing mini turgo hydro turbine efficiency, a test bench must be used.
It converts the kinetic energy from the water jet into mechanical energy. Complete 12 volt system with turgo runner, 3phase pma and ac to dc rectifier for economic power transmission. Still, if you have any doubt ask in the comment section, i will get back to you as soon as. In most other respects they are very similar to peltons so the discussion above applies to both turbine types. High specific speed turgo hydro turbine turgo water turbine. The turgo turbine is used for pico hydro power generation. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
Instead of the jet striking the centre the bucket at a right angle and splitting into two the jet on the turgo enters the runner at an acute angle, passes through the wheel, and discharges from the other side. A crossflow turbine always has its runner shaft horizontal unlike pelton and turgo turbines which can have either horizontal or vertical shaft orientation. In factory and lab tests turgo turbines perform with efficiencies of up to 90%. The main difference between the turgo and pelton turbine is the. Unlike most water turbines, which have axial or radial flows, in a crossflow turbine the water passes through the turbine transversely, or across the turbine blades. The design of this impulse water turbine is inspired from pelton turbine. Operational turgo turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87%. Pdf fem analysis of turgo impulse turbine blade researchgate. Configuration on the performance of pelton and turgo turbine injectors and. An introduction to hydropower concepts and planning.
The working principle of this turbine is same as other impulse water turbines. Because different hydro power project head and flow should choose different turbine and different size turbine runner to meet, turbine specification table can not show all the detail to meet all kind of condition of customers project situation, here table only for reference, so please give me your head and flow, together with your requirement, we will make the suitable design to meet your. Turgo turbines were developed by gilkes in 1919 and are a development of the pelton turbine. The turgo impulse design is a high capacity, medium head, free jet impulse turbine. The characteristic of pelton and turgo turbine performance. Turgo turbine turgo turbine is a kind of impulse turbine suit for head over 8m, flow over 0. There are a number of reasons why so many have chosen to install a turgo turbine and we would like to share some of their reasons with you. Optimal design and experimental validation of a turgo model. Turgo turbine this is all about todays lesson, i hope you have cleared all of your doubts on francis turbine, do let me know your thoughts in the comment section, and if you have any doubts feel free to ask in the comment section.
Anagnostopoulos school of mechanical engineering, national technical university of athens, greece. Turgo hydro generator 48 volt dc langstons alternative power. Although technically classified as an impulse turbine because it is not entirely immersed in water, it is used in lowhead, highflow systems. The runner of turgo turbine is the half slice of pelton turbine.
With inclined jet turbine, the water flow output from nozzle flows along a certain angle of plane of rotation of the running wheel instead of flowing along the tangent of the turning wheel, and the water flow goes inside the blades from one side and goes out form. So this is the overview of the pelton wheel turbine, i tried my best to describe the whole thing, i hope you got the concept of pelton wheel. It is clear that developers of schemes with a low head will generally. Because different hydro power project head and flow should choose different turbine and different size turbine runner to meet, turbine specification table can not show all the detail to meet all kind of condition of customers project situation, here table only for reference, so. The turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. Pdf performance of a low cost spoonbased turgo turbine for. The drag in a turgo turbine can be low due to its small wheel diameter due to the counter intuitive design of a hero turbine, when used as a twophase turbine, and disadvantages and advantages of each turbine, the turgo turbine design is chosen for the twophase turbine.
Pdf the present research work describes the development of turgo turbine blades on the solidworks software. Turgo hydro generator 48 volt dc langstons alternative. Turbine and generator is designed as a whole body, which has 3 bearings. The initial cost of the turbine is low and is similar to.
Turbinas hidraulicas turgo by pedro gradit on prezi. Overview of turgo turbine fransis turbine kaplan turbine hydraulic turbine. Optimal design and experimental validation of a turgo. Optimal design and experimental validation of a turgo model hydro turbine john s. The main difference between the turgo and pelton turbine is the design of runner buckets.
Jul 07, 20 easy to install and maintain for this kind of little system lower than 5kw, from 5kw to 100kw we offer customer made system. Turbina turgo hydro en ventas calidad turbina turgo hydro. The test results show that the turgo turbine has a realtively stable efficiency on different flow rate compared to pelton turbine because the energy. It is widely used in hydro power stations with the head of 31 80 meters. Diseno con uno o dos inyectores con eje horizontal. Flow analysis of turgo impulse turbine for low head. The pelton wheel and turgo turbine are both termed as an impulse turbine and they can be applied in the picohydro systems because possess high efficiency in.