Sentence examples for head turbine from inspiring English sources

Circular ramp overtopping wave energy converter (CROWN) is an offshore overtopping wave energy converter that consists of a reservoir surrounded by a circular ramp and an outflow duct installed with a low water head turbine.

The energy is extracted through low head turbines, using the difference between the water levels in the reservoir and the sea water level.

This can be achieved by placing tidal stream turbines in the path of high speed tidal currents or through tidal range schemes, where low head turbines are encapsulated in impoundment structures, much like in low head riverine hydropower schemes.

Inside the Nevada powerhouse, the latest $3.5m wide-head turbine is being installed.

The chapter presents a review of low-head turbine technology for pico hydro drawn from University research and information from the manufacturers.

But thankfully, Cook said, the first of the five new wide-head turbines was installed later that year.

While a number of designs of small Pelton turbine are available, which enable new manufacturers to produce these machines, this is not the case with low-head turbines.

The reservoirs share a common outflow duct and a low-head axial turbine.

In each reservoir, expressively designed low head hydro-turbines are converting the potential energy of the stored water into power.

In general, such converters use as power take-off system either a hydraulic system (high-head water turbine or high-pressure-oil hydraulic motor) or a directly driven linear electric generator.

For medium heads, Deriaz turbines have had some success because they allow ready adjustment of the runner-blade angles to match the opposite requirements of pumping and power generation.