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FRL History

Hydrolec Disassembly

Hydrolec Rebuild

Key Personnel

Machine Shop

News Page

Previous Pictures

Projects

For Sale

HYDROELECTRIC SITES:

Anasagunticook Lake Dam Replacement-    C.Fay & W.Fay

Appleton HEP-     Jim Lichoulas

Badger Pond Dam Removal

Senor Bonifettis' sites in Chile

Buttermilk Hydro

Chittendon Falls

Claytor Dam

Collins Bascule Dam

ESAC WORKS      July 1985

Fiske Mill

1852 Fourneyron

Golden Pond Hydro

Hunts Pond

Jaffery Fire Protection

Lake May Pelton Wheel Removal

Livermore Falls

Martinsville Hydro

OSV

Silk Knitters- Ron Macleod

South Village Dam

Shaker Mill Dam

Tannery Pond

Valatie Falls

Ware River Power's Hydrostations

 

USEFUL ENGINEERING:

The Banki Water Turbine Mockmoore and Merryfield

Bishops Method- STABGM Program

Blade Design-Nechleba

Chain Turbine by: Nguyen Minh Duy

Chain Turbine Mechanics- Discussions with Duy

Design of Small Water Turbines for Farm and Small Communities

Draft Tube Design

Draft Tube Tests

Ejection into Tailraces of Hydropower Plants: S. M. Slisskii

Fall Increaser- Henry Ford

Fall Increaser Herschel Venturi Tube

Fall Increaser Moody Ejector Turbine

Fall Increaser Hydraulic Jump Apron

Flashboard Pins

Gatecase Design- Kovalev

Gatecase Design- Nechleba

Hydraulic Turbines by Arnold Pfau

Hydrostatic Beam Analysis

Impulse Turbines  by Ely Hutchinson

Kaplan Blade Design NACA Air Foil- Report No. 460

Kaplan Blade Design NACA Air Foil- Report No. 628

Kaplan Design- Kovalev

A Laboratory Study to Improve the Efficiency of Crossflow Turbines- N. Aziz & V. Desai

Meggering Generators

Meggering      Earth Resistance

Out Gassing

Parallel Operation of Turbines Analysis

Pelton Design- Daugherty

Pelton Design- Nechleba

Powerhouse Design- Miniwatt Hydro

Powerhouse Design- Natick Dam

Power Plant Inspection

Rake-Leonard

Rake-Newport News

Rack Design-Chicopee-Olav Hotvedt

Rack Design- PHI- Bill Fay

Rack Design-PHI-Brian French

Rack Design-PHI-Ken Smith

Rack Design-ASCE

Rack Design- Hydraulic Institue of Munich

Rack Design-Flow Induced Vibrations

Selecting Hydraulic Reaction Turbines BUREC

Stress Analysis of Hydraulic Turbine Parts, BUREC- F.O. Ruud

Some Fluid Flow Characteristics of a Cross Flow Type Hydraulic Turbine- Durgin & Fay

Tests on a Kaplan Hydraulic Turbine

Theoretical Conditions Related to an Open Channel Flow Linear Turbine- Ishida & Service

Turgo, A High Speed Impulse Turbine- Paul Wilson

Vortices at Intakes

Water Hammer-Lorenzo Allievi-Text

Water Hammer-Lorenzo Allievi-Figures

Water Hammer-ASME Symposium 1933

Water Hammer _ Norman Gibson

Water Hammer-E.B.Strowger

Water Wheel Design- Ken Smith

Weights

Wooden Penstocks

TRADE CATALOUGES:

Bradway Turbine

Brook Waterwheel

Charmilles Turbines

Dayton Globe

Electric Machinery Company (EM)

English Pelton

ESAC

Essex Turbines

GE WW Vert Gen

GE Springbed Brg

Gilkes Turbines

GilkesWaterpower

Holyoke Hercules

Hunt Cat 29 A&B

Hunt cylinder

Kingsbury  Brg

Leffel Bulletin 38

Leffel Bulletin 54

Leffel Hoppes Unit

Leffel Laboratory Unit

Leffel Miscellaneous

Lombard Governor

Pelton Wheel (1909)

Pelton Wheel (1925)

Rodney Hunt

Samson PamK

Smith Power Tables

Smith Kaplan

Smith Power

Smith Pelton

Smith Develop

Smith Turbines: Bulletin 105

Swain Turbine

Tyler Turbine

Vertical Shaft Water Wheel Driven Generators- General Electric

Wellman Seaver Morgan

Westinghouse Small Vertical Waterwheel-Driven A-C Generators, July 1944

Westinghouse WW Generators

Woodward Governor

 

Links:

Swiftriverhydro.com

damengineers.com

 

FALL INCREASER-MOODY EJECTOR TURBINE WEB PAGE

    There are three, classic forms, of fall increasers.

    Clemens Herschel (the inventor of the Venturi Meter) designed a head increaser where the discharge end, of a vertical, conical draft tube, was inserted into the throat of an enormous, horizontal, Venturi meter. The upstream end of the Venturi protruded into the impoundment and was gated. Its exit was into the tailrace. During normal flows, the entrance to the Venturi was closed, with its gate. The turbine discharged through the draft tube, into the venturi and out into the tailrace. During freshets, when the tailwater was high, the gate at the mouth of the Venturi was opened. The excess floodwaters flowing through the Venturi, created a vacuum in the throat of the Venturi. Since the turbine draft tube was discharging into the Venturi throat, the turbine saw an increased pressure drop across its runner. The lost head created by the elevated tailwater was effectively recovered.

    Moody designed his ejector turbine. In Moody's design, the turbine draft tube has an annular opening cut in the top of the draft tube. This opening is surrounded by an annular guide vane. A cylinder gate seals the annulus when it is not being used. During normal operations, the cylinder is closed and the turbine discharges through the normal draft tube. During freshets, the cylinder gate is opened and the discharge through the draft tube is increased. The additional water increased the pressure drop across the runner. Henry Ford installed one.

    The last design utilizes the water surface suppression created by an ogee curved spillway. The powerhouse is designed so that it is adjacent to the spillway. The powerhouse discharges into the trough of the ogee spillway. At all spillway surcharge flows, the tailwater exiting the powerhouse, remains suppressed. The total head across the runner remains constant.

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