Overview
- Systematically describes the hydraulic processes in a Pelton turbine from the turbine inlet to outlet, and provides most helpful guidelines for engineers with hydraulic and mechanical designs
- Completely analyzes all relevant flow processes and hydraulic aspects in a Pelton turbine
- Provides well-executed examples to help better understand the related flow mechanics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book concerns the theoretical foundations of hydro mechanics of Pelton turbines from a viewpoint of engineering. For reference purposes all relevant flow processes and hydraulic aspects in a Pelton turbine have been analyzed completely and systematically. The analyses especially include the quantification of all possible losses existing in the Pelton turbine and the indication of most available potential for further enhancing the system efficiency. As a guideline the book therefore supports further developments of Pelton turbines with regard to their hydraulic designs and optimizations. It is thus suitable for the development and design engineers as well as those working in the field of turbo machinery. Many laws described in the book can also be directly used to simplify aspects of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or to develop new computational methods. The well-executed examples help better understanding the related flow mechanics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr.-Ing. Zh. Zhang graduated from the School of Energy & Power Engineering of Xi’an Jiaotong University (PR China) in 1981. He received his PhD at the Institute of Thermo and Fluid Dynamics of Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). Afterwards he joined Sulzer Markets & Technology Ltd in Winterthur, Switzerland, for experimental research of engineering flows. During this time he was awarded the company innovation prize. He changed later to the Oberhasli Hydroelectric Power Company (KWO) and later to Rütschi Fluids AG. Currently he is a visit engineer for supporting the research projects at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). He is the author of the monographs «Freistrahlturbinen» 2008 and «LDA Application Methods» 2010. In 2014, he was elected to ASME Fellow.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pelton Turbines
Authors: Zhengji Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31909-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31908-7Published: 21 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81150-5Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31909-4Published: 13 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 311
Number of Illustrations: 124 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original German edition published by SpringerVieweg, Wiesbaden 2008
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Machinery and Machine Elements, Energy Systems, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics