PELTON WHEEL TURBINE TEST SETUP

Pelton Wheel Turbine is only impulse water turbine now in common use, named in honor of Sir L.A. Pelton (1829-1908) of California, USA. It is a tangential flow impulse turbine.The water strikes the buckets along the tangent of the runner.The energy available at the Inlet of the Turbine is only kinetic energy. The Pressure at the Inlet and outlet of the atmospheric.This turbine is used for high heads.The Present Set.up consists of a runner.The buckets are mounted on the
runner.The water is fed to the turbine, through SS nozzle with a SS spear,
by means of Centrifugal Pump. tangentially to the runner. ROW of water
into turbine is regulated by adjusting the spear position by the help of a
given hand wheel.The runner is directly mounted on one end of a central
SS shaft and other end is connected to a brake arrangement. The circular
window of the turbine casing is provided with a transparent acrylic sheet
for observation of flow on to the buckets. This runner assembly is
supported by rigid MS structure, Load is applied to the turbine with the
help of this brake dynamometer so that the efficiency of the turbine can
be calculated. Pressure Gauge is fitted at the Inlet of the turbine to measure
the total supply head of the turbine.Experiment
* To study the operation of a Pelton Wheel Turbine
* To determine the Output Power of Pelton Wheel Turbine
* To determine the Turbine Efficiency