What is Kaplan Turbine? Kaplan Turbine is an axial flow reaction turbine with adjustable blades. This turbine was developed in the year 1913 by Viktor Kaplan, who was a Austrian Professor. In his design, he combined automatically adjusted propeller blades and automatically adjusted wicket gates to obtain efficiency over a wide range of water flow …
Introduction From wind mills to hydro-power plants we have reaction turbines all around the world to generate electricity efficiently. Almost 60% of turbines used in hydro-power plants are reaction turbine. Unlike impulse turbines they remain dipped in water and use the pressure energy of water to generate power. The idea of dipping the whole turbine …
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Introduction Heard about electricity generation by hydropower plants, know what makes them so efficient that they are lightening up our houses. Yeah that’s the whole effort we have put-in to design our turbines, and make them more and more efficient. Now days an efficient turbine can utilize up-to 90% of the water’s potential energy. Although …
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