Pumped Storage
Pumped Storage
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Can large typical pumped storage systems keep the turbine(wheel) moving in the same direction but just reverse gates or the blades or do they always stop the machine then reverse it?
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Deke1
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I live about 40 minuts from the Ludington, MI pumped storage facility on Lake Michigan. Cool site.
JTK
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At which point the blade twist would be all wrong, and you'd be fighting the curvature of the volute, too.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Stopping and restarting backwards twice a day sounded electrically and mechanically abusive.
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You might be interested in First Hydro's Dinorwig pumped storage station at Dinorwig, North Wales.
http://www.fhc.co.uk/gallery/gallery.htm
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