Complete 12 volt system with turgo runner, 3phase pma and ac to dc rectifier for economic power transmission. Review of optimal selection of turbines for hydroelectric. It is also of interest to know that 4 vertical francis turbines in another plant built in 1905 were. The turgo impulse design is a high capacity, medium head, free jet impulse turbine. Eric crewdson, the grandfather of our current chairman mr. It converts the kinetic energy from the water jet into mechanical energy.
I have not studied turgo turbine, so cant explain any concepts. Turgo turbine is the preferred turbine for hydropower when the available water source has a relatively high hydraulic head at low flow rates. The turgo hydro turbine belongs to the impulse turbines class, along with pelton and. Under the best conditions, the turgo turbine efficiency was observed to be. The waters potential energy is converted to kinetic energy with a nozzle. The turgo impulse turbine was invented and patented by mr. It consists of main machine, nozzle apparatus, inlet part, deflector regulating apparatus, governor, etc. The jet coming out of the nozzle hits one or multiple buckets, rotating the turbine wheel and thus creating mechanical power.
Flow modeling and runner design optimization in turgo. Easy to install and maintain for this kind of little system lower than 5kw, from 5kw to 100kw we offer customer made system. The design of this impulse water turbine is inspired from pelton turbine. Turgo turbine runner is same as pelton runner but it is split in half. Development of the turgo impulse turbine research portal. Hydraulic turbines may be defined as prime movers that transform the. This ability to deal better with large volumes of water gives the turgo turbine an advantage when used in hydroelectric plants that have medium hydraulic heads. Analysis of the mini turgo hydro turbine performance for different working regimes, pp.
Forster technology is focused on design, manufacturing and marketing of micro hydro turbine generators. Further a manual separated operation of each guide vane servomotor will be possible in such. Keywordsturgo turbine, lagrangian flow modeling, surface. Hydroelectricity power plants,turn key projects siapro. In a hydroelectric power plant, this is used to drive the generator of the turbine and that generator generates the mechanical energy of the turbine into electrical energy.
In this case the jets aimed to strike the plane of the runner on one side and exists on the other. A turgo turbine is a type of hydro turbine specifically an impulse turbine, developed in the 1920s, that is a variant of the pelton turbine. Turgo turbine impulse turbine 3d cad model library. In the pulley is an open trapeze channel in which is located a steel. Pdf the incorporation of computational fluid dynamics in the design of. The turbine connects with generator by flexible coupler integrated with the flywheel. Turbinas hidraulicas turgo by pedro gradit on prezi. In pico hydro applications for remote areas, the turgo type impulse turbine is. If you want to buy our hydro generator set, please offer us the height of water head, the exact water flow. Turgo turbine transforms kinetic energy of water jet to rotational energy with the help of a nozzle. The main difference between a pelton turbine and a turgo turbine is that turgo turbines use single cups instead of double cups on the wheel, and these cups are more shallow. The turgo impulse turbine provides a unique and novel solution to increasing the capacity of a hydraulic impulse turbine while maintaining the nozzle and spear injector system as used in pelton turbines for flow regulation. 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. Moreover, the tool used to make the blades used in the williamson study, a threedimensional 3d printer, is hightech and is very.
We only sell the turgo wheel to existing customers who need replacement parts for now discontinued hydro generators. The turgo turbine, in figure 3, is an impulse turbine. Model turbine set up left, and jetrunner interaction right cups are marked by dotted lines. In factory and lab tests turgo turbines perform with efficiencies of up to 90%. In this paper, the operation of a singlejet turgo turbine outside of this typical. Turbine and generator is designed as a whole body, which has 3 bearings. Fem analysis of turgo impulse turbine blade sourabh khurana1, varun goel2 and anoop kumar2 1school of engineering and technology, shoolini university, bajhol, solan 173212, india 2department of mechanical engineering, national institute of technology, hamirpur 177005, india corresponding authors email. Designed in 1919 by gilkes as a modification of the pelton wheel, the turgo has some advantages over francis and pelton designs for certain applications. Turgo turbine was developed gilkes energy company in 1919. Further improvements in 1936 and 1962, complete with patents, enabled the runner to operate faster and with a higher effi ciency across a broad fl ow range. The water in a turgo turbine is moving quickly high velocity head, figure 2. Similar to pelton runner, but a more complex blade design. In the overall assessment of a low head project, the application of bulbpit turbines results in higher annual energy and lower relative construction costs.
Harmony with nature page 08 bulb turbines technology fit for the future page 18 02 editorial hydronews no. Semper for those involved in the hydropower business 2015 was a challenging year. 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. Projects undertaken by student apprentices of tu darmstadt. Designed in 1919 by gilkes as a modification of the pelton wheel, the. Francis turbine, runner with splitter blades, solidliquid twophase flow, numerical analysis. The turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications, from 50m300m, between francis turbine and pelton turbine. Renewable energy, hydropower, impulse turbines, turgo turbines. For the same power, the tugo runner is one half the diameter of the pelton runner. Performance of a lowhead picohydro turgo turbine request pdf. The turgo turbine is classified as an impulse turbine, similar to the pelton wheel, often used in picohydro systems.
Single nozzle 100kw small turgo turbine generator unit for. Turgo turbine turgo turbine is a kind of impulse turbine suit for head over 8m, flow over 0. This turbine is horizontal turgo turbine with single nozzle and single runner. Purchasing and installing turgo generators tends to cost less than pelton wheels, since turgo runners can handle a greater flow than the same diameter pelton wheel.
The main difference between the turgo and pelton turbine is the. Flow analysis of turgo impulse turbine for low head power. Video mhe hladnik, reference 2009, francis turbine, 390kw video mhe mocnik, reference 1985, pelton turbine, 75kw video hydro electricity plant in africa, reference 20, francis turbine, 340kw. Both offer high efficiency for a broad range of site conditions, but the primary difference is that the turgo can handle significantly higher water flow rates, allowing for efficient operation in lower head ranges and thus.
No direct correlation between pump characteristics and turbine characteristics. Turgo turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87% efficiency in practice wikipedia turgo turbine. Experimental study of impulse turbines and permanent magnet. Micro hydro page turgo power pelltonwheels runners pellton. Analysis of the mini turgo hydro turbine performance for.
As a result of its ability to maintain its original efficiency, the turgo turbine is particularly well suited for runofriver schemes with large flow variation. The turgo impulse turbine is a simple and robust design that generates power from a high velocity jet of water. Scott, gilkes, uk the turgo impulse turbine is a simple and robust design that generates power from a high velocity jet of water. The effect of wheel and nozzle diameter ratio on the performance of. The turgo turbine is an impulse machine similar to a pelton turbine but which was designed to have a higher specific speed. Under the best conditions, the turgo turbine efficiency was observed to be over 80% at a speed ratio of approximately 0. Compact structure, easy to install, very little civil works.
Our turgo wheel or turgo runner is a cast epoxy impeller designed to provide efficient performance on microhydro turgo wheel water turbines. Pico turgo turbine below 5kw professional micro hydro. The turgo impulse turbine provides a unique and novel solution to increasing the capacity of a hydraulic impulse turbine while maintaining the nozzle and spear injector system as used in pelton. High specific speed turgo hydro turbine turgo water. Then the shaft is rotated and the electricity is generated in generator.
A turgo runner looks like a pelton runner split in half. 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. Cooling towers, energy renewable, francis turbine with ultralow specific speed, computational fluid dynamics simulation. The turgo turbine has a higher specific speed and it can handle a greater flow than the same diameter pelton wheel, leading to reduced generator and. The turgo turbine is an impulse turbine, and can handle flow rates that are higher than those a pelton turbine can handle. Pico turgo turbine is our regular water turbine generator on stock, people can buy it from us, and we can deliver the turbine and voltage controller by express couriers like dhl etc. The jet impinges at an oblique angle on the runner from one side and continues in a single path, discharging at the other side of the runner. Operational turgo turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87%. Turgo hydro generator 48 volt dc langstons alternative.
The model is non realistic, build for just explaining the blade shape and design of turgo turbine. The turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. Pdf flow modeling and runner design optimization in turgo. It is widely used in hydro power stations with the head of 31 80 meters. The high speed water jet is then directed on the turbine blades which deflect and reverse the flow. First, the runner is less expensive to make than a pelton wheel. Request pdf performance of a lowhead picohydro turgo turbine turgo turbines. Hydraulic turbineshydraulic turbines raven mechanical. They require about the same high heads as do the peltons and they sometimes employ multi jets to. Other articles where turgo water turbine is discussed. Pump as turbine 18 centrifugal pumps may be used as turbines.
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