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Design Analysis of Parts of Francis Turbine. P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department. Provision of Features to Blend some Reaction into Impulse…. Spiral Casing. Spiral Casing : The fluid enters from the penstock to a spiral casing which completely surrounds the runner.
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Design Analysis of Parts of Francis Turbine P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department Provision of Features to Blend some Reaction into Impulse…
Spiral Casing • Spiral Casing : The fluid enters from the penstock to a spiral casing which completely surrounds the runner. • This casing is known as scroll casing or volute. • The cross-sectional area of this casing decreases uniformly along the circumference to keep the fluid velocity constant in magnitude along its path towards the stay vane/guide vane.
Design of Spiral Casing dpenstock Rcasing Q Risv How to select Q ?
Design of Spiral Casing dpenstock Rcasing Q Risv Select a suitable value of discharge per unit: Q But maximum allowable value is 10 m/s Maximum allowable head loss in Penstock =2 to 4% of available head
At any angle q, the radius of casing is: A full spiral is generally recommended for high head 300m, semi-spiral is recommended for low head < 50m. In general k =1.0, however corrected using CFD.
Flow Distribution Analysis of Casing Stay vanes or Guide vanes
Stay Vanes & Guide Vanes • The basic Purpose of the stay vanes & guide vanes is to convert a part of pressure energy of the fluid at its entrance to the kinetic energy and then to direct the fluid on to the runner blades at the angle appropriate to the design. • Moreover, the guide vanes are pivoted and can be turned by a suitable governing mechanism to regulate the flow while the load changes. • The guide vanes are also known as wicket gates. • The guide vanes impart a tangential velocity and hence an angular momentum to the water before its entry to the runner. • The guide vanes are constructed using an optimal aerofoil shape, in order to optimize off-design performance.
Bgi Bsi rinlet Guide Vane rinlet Stay Vane Design of the Details of Stay & Guide Vane Wheels Theory of Relatively free Whirling flow: • The inlet angle can be calculated by assuming a free vortex from the flow coming from the spiral casing
Pressure drop versus Flow Rate Pressure drop versus discharge
The correlation between the turbinedischarge and the guide vane opening angle.
Design of the Guide Vanes How to choose the guide vane maximum angle a0 at full load ? ao
Design of the Guide VanesLevel of Overlapping of the guide vanes
Design of Guide Vanes . L: length of vane L=15 to 30% of Dgo
Runner inlet (Φ0.870m) Guide vane outlet for designα) (Φ0.913m) Closed Position Max. Opening Position
Bg0 rri Dg0 Design of the Guide Vane Outlet Angle • The outlet angle can be calculated by assuming a free vortex from the flow in the gap between the runner and the guide vanes
Design of the Guide VanesHow to choose the number of vanes • The number of guide vanes has to be different from the number of runner vanes.
Water particle Water from spiral casing
Velocity triangles rri Uri Vwi bi ai Vfi Vri Vai rre Ure Vwe be ae Vfe Vre Vae
The transposition of the profiles for all the 11 streamlines
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