Hydropower Turbines Articles
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Project - 455 KW, MA
Year: 2016 Running Gear: 3 units: Vertical shaft synchronous generator driven by a Francis turbine. Vertical shaft synchronous generator driven by a propeller turbine, and a vertical shaft induction generator driven through a flat belt by a Kaplan turbine. Scope: Replacement control system, switchgear, excitation, wicket gate operators.. Located in Massachusetts, this hydroelectric plant ...
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Project - 1.6 MW, NY
Year: 2017 Running Gear: Vertical shaft Kaplan turbine with synchronous generator. Scope: Replacement control system and exciter. Located in upstate NY, this hydroelectric plant was built in the mid-1980s in response to the federal PURPA legislation. The site is well suited to hydropower, with a small labyrinth dam spanning the river banks just above a beautiful cascade into a deep gorge. ...
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Project - 3.4 MW, NC
Year: 2022 Running Gear: 2 vertical shaft Francis turbines with synchronous generators Scope: Replacement of control system, excitation, and governors Set in a resort town in the mountains of North Carolina, this hydroelectric project was originally constructed in 1925-1926 by a private developer. Its primary purpose was to create a beautiful lake as the centerpiece of a huge resort/real ...
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Project - 600 KW, NY
Year: 2018 Running Gear: Three units: One vertical shaft Francis turbine with synchronous generator. One horizontal shaft turbine with synchronous generator. One horizontal shaft double-runner turbine with synchronous generator. Scope: Replacement control system, switchgear, and HPU. Black start capability. Located in a small town in the Adirondak mountains in upstate NY, this ...
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Project - 1 MW, NC
Year: 2021 Running Gear: 2 Vertical shaft Francis turbines with synchronous generators Scope: Replacement of control system, exciters, and HPUs Originally part of a large cotton mill complex in North Carolina dating back to the 1800s, this 1 MW hydropower plant stayed in operation into the 2000s, longer than the rest of the declining mill town. The cotton mill itself finally shut down in ...
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Project - 4 MW, MA
Year: 2018 Running Gear: 2 Vertical shaft Francis turbines with synchronous generators Scope: Replacement of control system and exciters This hydroelectric plant is located in central MA on a highly developed river, with multiple hydro plants operating both upstream and downstream of the project. Originally constructed in 1918 by a local manufacturing company, the project today consists of ...
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Warsaw Water District - Wiory, Poland - Case Study
Waterpumps WP Oy has delivered hydropower equipment for Wiory power plant in Poland. The work included three tube turbines with hydraulics and control panels. All the equipment was assembled ready for mounting in Finland. The customer fitted the units in to the plant and tested the equipment. Commissioning was done with the presence of WP Oy’s ...
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Eesti Energia AS - Linnamae, Estonia - Case Study
Linnamae plant is located in northern Estonia in Jagala-river, about 1.5 km from the coast of Baltic Sea and 30 km east from the city of Tallinn. The original plant has been designed by Finnish professor Axel Verner Juselius in the year 1917 and it has been constructed during 1922-24. The plant has been exploded during the Second World War in 1941. The original plant consisted of spillover dam, ...
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Project - Hanover Pond Hydro
First commercial Archimedes Screw Turbine installation in the U.S. LIHI certified. Location Hanover Pond, Quinnipiac River, Meriden, Connecticut Type of Waterway Run-of-River Profile 920,000 kW hrs. PPA City of Meriden Public & Private Funding U.S. LIHI certified Start Date March ...
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Project - Albion Hydro, LLC
December 13-14, 2022. Two turbine assemblies, nearly 25 tons each, lowered into place. Location Albion Hydro, LLC on the Blackstone River, Cumberland, Rhode Island Type of Waterway Run-of-River Profile Two Archimedes Screw Turbines (ASTs) 430 kW installed capacity 2034 MW hrs per year Start Date Spring ...
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HPP Rätan, Sweden – Refurbishment of turbine G2 - Case Study
We have started implementation of a project for the refurbishment of the G2 turbine unit, HPP Rätan in Sweden. The power plant, put into operation in 1968, currently operated by UNIPER, is equipped with 2 Francis turbines – each with an output of about 30 MW and runner diameter of 2700 ...
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Installation Examples: Battery Charging Turbines: Hydraulic Laboratory (Spain) - Case Study
The Department of Rural and Agricultural Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia has an Hydraulic and Irrigation Laboratory (LHIR) used for research and teaching tasks. Said laboratory has a closed circuit equipped with impulsion pumps that supply a high tank, which can also be fed by solar ...
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PLTM Karekan, Indonesia - Case Study
Strojirny Brno Co. has put into operation its two units with Francis turbines each of power output 4 MW at SHPP Karekan, Central Java, Indonesia in March-April ...
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POET Biorefining & City of Macon, Missouri - 10 MW CHP Application - Case Study
Quick Facts LOCATION: Macon, Missouri ETHANOL CAPACITY: 50 million gallons per year PROCESS STEAM REQUIRED: 85,000 lb/hr at 125 PSI PRIME MOVER: Solar MarsTM Natural Gas Turbine GENERATING CAPACITY: 10 MW HEAT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT: Deltak Heat Recovery Steam Generator CHP MAXIMUM THERMAL OUTPUT: 51,000 lb/hr at 125 PSI IMPLEMENTATION COST SPLITS: City of Macon – All CHP equipment POET ...
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Adkins Energy LLC - 5.0 MW CHP Application - Case Study
Quick Facts LOCATION: Lena, Illinois MARKET SECTOR: Ethanol Plant PRIME MOVER: (1) Solar Gas Turbine FUEL: Natural Gas GENERATING CAPACITY: 5.0 MW HEAT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT: (1) Victory Heat Recovery Steam Generator with thermal capacity of 25,700 lbs/hr at 125 PSI HEAT RECOVERY APPLICATION: Building Heat, Process Heat IMPLEMENTATION COST: $3,000,000 TOTAL ENERGY AND OPERATION ...
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Project Klemtu II Hydro British Columbia, Canada - Case Study
Statistics: Turbine: One 820mm double nozzle Pelton Generator: One 1800kW WEG @ 900 RPM Rated head: 310m Rated flow: 0.66m3/sec Commissioned: November 2009 This new facility replaces the existing 600kW power plant of which the generation equipment was also supplied by DTL (see Klemtu Village project in 1984). It provides increasingly demanded power to this growing village. A new penstock ...
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Project Klemtu II Hydro British Columbia, Canada - Case Study
Statistics: Turbine: One 820mm double nozzle Pelton Generator: One 1800kW WEG @ 900 RPM Rated head: 310m Rated flow: 0.66m3/sec Commissioned: November 2009 This new facility replaces the existing 600kW power plant of which the generation equipment was also supplied by DTL (see Klemtu Village project in 1984). It provides increasingly demanded power to this growing village. A new ...
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Coopers Gap Wind Farm - Case Study
A$850M: Project Cost 1,510,000MWh: Expected low Emission Contribution 123: Turbines installed 453MW: Generation capacity Coopers Gap Wind Farm is a 453MW wind energy project to be located at Cooranga North, approximately 180kms north-west of Brisbane, Queensland. Upon completion in 2019, it will be Australia’s largest wind farm. The site was identified by Windlab’s WindScape ...
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McLeod dam hydro - Case study
The McLeod Dam is one of six dams on the Moira River in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the Quinte Conservation Association. This dam was constructed in the late 1970’s for the primary purpose of ice and flood control. In 2008, the dam was retrofitted for the secondary purpose of power generation. CHC supplied a water-to-wire equipment package consisting of two (2) ...
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Oswegatchie generating station - Case study
The Oswegatchie Hydro facility is located on the Upper Oswegatchie River in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. CHC provided a water-to-wire package consisting of two 1250 mm axial flow Kaplan turbines with 1035 kW/450 RPM synchronous generators, switchgear and controls package. This redevelopment project began operations in July 2002, was constructed in only 13 months and commissioned ...
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