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We are now putting down pedestals where the penstock pipes will be laid leading to the power house.
At this point, the water is allowed to fall through a pipe or penstock down to the powerhouse where it spins turbines to create electricity.
For example, small roads, buried penstock, and strict creek level control will minimize environmental degradation.
The generation of electricity depends upon the volume of water flowing through the penstock and the height from which the water falls.
The choice of size and type of penstock depends on several factors that are explained briefly in this section.
Potential power will also be lost in the penstock pipe that carries the water to the turbine because of frictional losses.
Several options for sizes and types of materials may need to be calculated and evaluated in order to find a suitable penstock pipe.
The gravel trap and screen are constructed close to the intake in order to prevent debris, gravel and sand from getting into the penstock.
The Kokish Project would have one main intake to divert the flow of water into the penstock, which would be divided into two segments.
Water from the dam at Lois Lake is conveyed to the generating equipment by a 2,886 m long steel and concrete penstock.
Sometimes, in more mountainous regions, the project can dispense with the canal and simply send water down the penstock directly from the intake.
This year saw the end of the Hauterive power house rehabilitation and of the Fully penstock refection.
Because of changes in the ambient temperature, the length of the penstock pipe may be subjected to expansion and contraction.
Now with a penstock in the ground and the turbine sheltered, electricity can be generated all year.
Head loss due to friction in the penstock pipe depends principally on the velocity of the water, the roughness of the pipe wall and the length and diameter of the pipe.
In the 1960s there was a trend toward an advancing-slope method of continuous concreting, as originally devised for embedding the steel cylinder of a hydropower penstock.
On 12 December 2000, the penstock of the Cleuson-Dixence scheme which brings the water from the Grande Dixence dam to the Bieudron power plant burst.
Gross head is the vertical distance between the top of the penstock that conveys the water under pressure and the point where the water discharges from the turbine.
To calculate the most realistic power output from your site, you must take into account the friction losses in the penstock pipes and the efficiency of the turbine and generator.
They are driven through a penstock, an inclined steellined shaft that brings the water from 1900 metres altitude to the Trift tunnel at 2400 metres altitude or the level of the main water conduit.
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Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed.
This is a type of wheel mounted on the lower end of a vertical or horizontal shaft, within, or at the bottom, of a penstock.
Adjoining the engine-well are the grating tank and penstock chamber, and with these the principal main sewer communicates.
And that's where you will go back and back and back, as you said about building the penstock?
We construct a penstock p and install a water-wheel, S, to operate a mill.
It is from this flume that the penstock draws water for the wheel.
But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
Outside should be a penstock, to carry off the superfluous water.
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