Improvement of the efficiency of the Agnew micro hydro turbine at part loads due to installing guide vanes mechanism

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1970-1975

  Yassi, Yousef ^a   Hashemloo, Safar ^a  

^a IRANIAN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IROST   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agnew turbine; Guide vanes mechanism; Main shaft; Part load efficiency; Second rest point; Second support

Indexed keywords

AGNEW TURBINE; MAIN-SHAFT; PART LOAD; PART-LOAD EFFICIENCY; TURBINE GUIDE VANE;

TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 77955326803     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2010.02.029     Document Type: Article

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