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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

 

LAKE MAY PELTON WHEELS 

 

Out of Lee, Massachusetts FRL has acquired three complete Pelton wheel hydraulic turbines. FRL has since salvaged the equipment out of the powerhouse and it is sitting by our warehouse.   These machines come with three runners, three pelton cases, six bearings, six bearing pedestals, three pelton deflectors, three complete pelton nozzles, three high pressure valves, three high pressure pipe flanges, two Pelton and one Woodward  governors, two induction generators, and one synchronous generator.  The Pelton wheels are 330 HP at 410 ft of head and at that head they rotate at 600 RPM.   The synchronous generator is a Westinghouse, It is 300 kva at a 0.8 power factor.  It generates at 2300 volts and turns at 600 RPM.  A couple of the coils to this generator are bad but all the other ones are good.  The name plates off the two induction generators are missing but to the best of our knowledge they are 250KW generators and operate 2300 volts and 600 RPM.  The shafts to the two induction units were cut at the couplings but they are easily repairable. FRL has a machine shop that can fix these shafts.  All the generator bearings are included. The Pelton buckets are in excellent condition, with no holes or major pitting.  Also a full set of extra buckets was included.  Lastly the original power house drawing was located. 

 

Lake May Power Company, Lee, MA

Note how we reinforced the bridge in order to cross it with the hydraulic crane

 

Celeste Fay wondering what the best rigging points are.

The Number Two synchronous machine. Last run in 1993.

 

Will standing next to the Number One asynchronous machine. Last run in 1990.

The number two runner being loaded to take back to the shop.

Celeste inspecting the Number Two Unit.

Will Fay has been very busy with a 30# demolition hammer (rivet buster). It is astonishing how it can remove hardened/reinforced concrete. The turbine case has been removed. The lower deflector nozzle still needs to be removed. Note the Pelton waterwheel governor in background. Note how nice Will kept the area after he was finished each night.

This is typical of the ongoing work. Incredible that a 17 year old removed and rigged out this equipment!! Of course this was the ninth power plant Will had worked on!

No.3 turbine deflector nozzle being pulled with the overhead monorail. This unit never ran. The plant made more power with two units running then when all three units ran together. The penstock was 7000 feet long and the head losses with three units running was too much.

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Last modified: 10/06/08