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