CE 704 · Chapter 6
Hydropower Engineering past question
6.3 Penstocks and Pressure shaft: importance, conditions of their application, general arrangement, hydraulic transients (water hammer), Computation of hydrodynamic pressure, sizing of penstock/pressure shaft and estimation of thickness of steel in penstock/pressure shaft
A proposed hydropower development having a net head of 90 m, design discharge of 40 m³/s uses Francis's turbine. Taking turbine efficiency 0.86. Calculate specific speed, turbine diameter and setting of the turbine. [6]