basics of hydraulics engineering

1. HYDRAULIC
MACHINES

2. A hydraulic machine is a device in which mechanical energy is
transferred from the liquid flowing through the machine to its
operating member (runner, piston and others) or from the
operating member of the machine to the liquid flowing through
it.
 Hydraulic machines in which, the operating member receives
energy from the liquid flowing through it and the inlet energy
of the liquid is greater than the outlet energy of the liquid are
referred as HYDRAULIC TURBINES.
 Hydraulic machines in which energy is transmitted from the
working member to the flowing liquid and the energy of the
liquid at the outlet of the hydraulic machine is less than the
outlet energy are referred to as PUMPS.
HYDRAULIC MACHINE

3. HYDRAULIC
TURBINES

4. It is well known from Newton’s Law that to change momentum of
fluid, a force is required. Similarly, when momentum of fluid is
changed, a force is generated. This principle is made use in
hydraulic turbine.
In a turbine, blades or buckets are provided on a wheel and
directed against water to alter the momentum of water. As the
momentum is changed with the water passing through the
wheel, the resulting force turns the shaft of the wheel
performing work and generating power.
A hydraulic turbine uses potential energy and kinetic energy of water
and converts it into usable mechanical energy. The mechanical energy
made available at the turbine shaft is used to run an electric power
generator which is directly coupled to the turbine shaft
The electric power which is obtained from the hydraulic energy
is known as Hydroelectric energy. Hydraulic turbines belong to
the category of Roto- dynamic machinery.

5. The hydraulic turbines are classified according to type of energy
available at the inlet of turbine, direction of flow through vanes,
head at the inlet of the turbines and specific speed of the turbines :
According to the type of energy at inlet:
Impulse turbine: - In the impulse turbine, the total head of the
incoming fluid is converted in to a large velocity head at the exit of the
supply nozzle. That is the entire available energy of the water is
converted in to kinetic energy. Although there are various types of
impulse turbine designs, perhaps the easiest to understand is the
Pelton wheel turbine. It is most efficient when operated with a large
head and lower flow rate.

6. Reaction turbine: Reaction turbines on the other hand, are best suited -
for higher flow rate and lower head situations. In this type of turbines,
the rotation of runner or rotor (rotating part of the turbine) is partly due
to impulse action and partly due to change in pressure over the runner
blades; therefore, it is called as reaction turbine.
For, a reaction turbine, the penstock pipe feeds water to a row of fixed
blades through casing. These fixed blades convert a part of the pressure
energy into kinetic energy before water enters the runner. The water
entering the runner of a reaction turbine has both pressure energy and
kinetic energy. Water leaving the turbine is still left with some energy
(pressure energy and kinetic energy). Since, the flow from the inlet to tail
race is under pressure,casing is absolutely necessary to enclose the
turbine.
In general, Reaction turbines are medium to low-head, and high-flow
rate devices. The reaction turbines in use are Francis and Kaplan

8. According to the direction of flow
through runner:
1.. Tangential flow turbines: In this type of turbines, the water strikes the runner in
the direction of tangent to the wheel. Example: Pelton wheel turbine.
2. Radial flow turbines: In this type of turbines, the water strikes in the radial
direction. Accordingly, it is further classified as,
a. Inward flow turbine: The flow is inward from periphery to the centre
(centripetal type). Example: old Francis
turbine.
b. Outward flow turbine: The flow is outward from the centre to periphery
(centrifugal type). Example: Fourneyron turbine.
3. Axial flow turbine: The flow of water is in the direction parallel to the axis of the
shaft. Example: Kaplan turbine and propeller turbine.
4. Mixed flow turbine: The water enters the runner in the radial direction and leaves
in
axial direction. Example: Modern Francis turbine.

9. According to the head at inlet of turbine:
(a) High head turbine: In this type of turbines, the net head varies from
150m to 2000m or even more, and these turbines require a small
quantity of water. Example: Pelton wheel turbine.
(b) Medium head turbine: The net head varies from 30m to 150m, and
also these turbines require moderate quantity of water. Example:
Francis turbine.
(c) Low head turbine: The net head is less than 30m and also these
turbines require large
quantity of water. Example: Kaplan turbine.
According to the specific speed of the turbine:
(a) The specific speed of a turbine is defined as, the speed of a
geometrically similar turbine that would develop unit power when
working under a unit head (1m head). It is prescribed by the relation
(b) Low specific speed turbine: The specific speed is less than 50.
(varying from 10 to 35 for single jet and up to 50 for double jet )
Example: Pelton wheel turbine.
(c) Medium specific turbine: The specific speed is varies from 50 to 250.
Example: Francis turbine.
(d) High specific turbine: the specific speed is more than 250. Example:
Kaplan turbine

11. GENERAL LAYOUT OF A HYDRO-ELECTRIC
POWER PLANT
1. A DAM
2. THE
PENSTO
CK
3. A
WATER
TURBIN
E
4. TAIL
RACE

12. Figure - Typical PELTON WHEEL with 21
Buckets
IMPULSE HYDRAULIC TURBINE : THE PELTON WHEE
The only hydraulic turbine of the impulse type in common use, is named after
an American engineer Laster A Pelton, who contributed much to its
development around the year 1880. Therefore this machine is known as
Pelton turbine or Pelton wheel.

13. It is an efficient machine particularly suited to high heads. The rotor consists
of a large circular disc or wheel on which a number (seldom less than 15) of
spoon shaped buckets are spaced uniformly round is periphery. The wheel is
driven by jets of water being discharged at atmospheric pressure from
pressure nozzles. The nozzles are mounted so that each directs a jet along a
tangent to the circle through the centres of the bucket.
Down the centre of each bucket, there is a splitter ridge which divides
the jet into two equal streams which flow round the smooth inner
surface of the bucket and leaves the bucket with a relative velocity
almost opposite in direction to the original jet.

14. PELTON WHEEL: MAIN PARTS

15. PELTON TURBINE : WORKING PRINCIPLE

16. ANIMATION OF PELTON TURBINE

17. WORK DONE & EFFICIENCY OF PELTON WHEEL
V = absolute velocity u = bucket / blade velocity
Vf = velocity of flow
Vr = relative velocity
Vw = Velocity of whirl
Work Done = (Fx * u) = m
. [ (Vw2 + Vw1 ) *u]
And
Power Developed (P) = W/1000 = m
. [ (Vw2 + Vw1 ) *u] / 1000 kW

18.  Hydraulic Efficiency of jet ηh = work done per second / K.E Supplied jet per second
ηh = 2 [ (Vw2 + Vw1 ) *u] / V1
2
condition for maximum hydraulic efficiency
(ηh ) max = ( 1 + K cos ϕ) / 2 , where K = friction factor
 Mechanical Efficiency of jet ηm = Power available at turbine shaft / Power developed by runner
ηm = Ps / P
 Volumetric Efficiency of jet ηv = Actual vol. of water striking the buckets / vol. of water issued by the jet
ηv = Qa / Q
 Overall Efficiency of jet ηo = Power available at turbine shaft / Power available the water jet
ηo = Ps / Pi where Pi = ρ g Q H
ηo = ηv * ηh * ηm

19. REACTION TURBINE: FRANCIS TURBINE
The principal feature of a reaction turbine that distinguishes it from an
impulse turbine is that only a part of the total head available at the inlet to
the turbine is converted to velocity head, before the runner is reached.
Also in the reaction turbines the
working fluid, instead of engaging only
one or two blades, completely fills the
passages in the runner.
The pressure or static head of the fluid
changes gradually as it passes through
the runner along with the change in its
kinetic energy based on absolute
velocity due to the impulse action
between the fluid and the runner.
Therefore the cross-sectional area of
flow through the passages of the fluid
A reaction turbine is usually well suited
for low heads.
A radial flow hydraulic turbine of
reaction type was first developed by an
American Engineer, James B. Francis
(1815-92) and is named after him as
the Francis turbine
Figure - schematic diagram
of a Francis turbine

20. A Francis turbine comprises mainly
the four components:
(i) spiral casing,
(ii) guide on stay vanes,
(iii) runner blades,
(iv) draft-tube
Figure - Spiral Casing
Figure - Components of Francis turbin

22. ANIMATION OF FRANCIS TURBINE

23. GENERAL LAYOUT OF A REACTION TURBINE PLANT
H = [ ( P / ρg) + (V2 /2g) + z ] penstock - [ ( P / ρg) + (V2 /2g) + z ] draft tube

24. VELOCITY TRIANGLES, WORK DONE BY WATER ON RUNNER AND
EFFICIENCIES OF REACTION TURBINE
 Work done /s or Runner Power (W or P ) = ρ Q (Vw1 * U1 ± Vw2 * U2 )
 Hydraulic Efficiency of jet ηh = Power Developed by runner (P) / Power Input
ηh = ρ Q (Vw1 * U1 ± Vw2 * U2 ) / ρ g Q H
 Mechanical Efficiency of jet ηm = Shaft power Ps / Power developed by runner P
 Overall Efficiency of jet ηo = Shaft Power Ps / Input Power = ηh * ηm

25. ANIMATION OF COMPARISON OF PELTON, FRANCIS &
KAPLAN TURBINE

26. Different types of draft tubes incorporated in
reaction turbines
The draft tube is an integral part of a
reaction turbine. The shape of draft
tube plays an important role especially
for high specific speed turbines, since
the efficient recovery of kinetic energy
at runner outlet depends mainly on it.
Typical draft tubes, employed in
practice, are discussed as follows.
Figurer - Different types of draft tubes
DRAFT TUBE:
The draft tube is a conduit which connects the runner exit to the tail race
where the water is being finally discharged from the turbine. The primary
function of the draft tube is to reduce the velocity of the discharged water
to minimize the loss of kinetic energy at the outlet. This permits the
turbine to be set above the tail water without any appreciable drop of
available head. A clear understanding of the function of the draft tube in
any reaction turbine, in fact, is very important for the purpose of its
design. The purpose of providing a draft tube will be better understood if
we carefully study the net available head across a reaction turbine.

27. PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF
REACTION TURBINE
It is not always possible in practice, although desirable, to run a machine
at its maximum efficiency due to changes in operating parameters.
Therefore, it becomes important to know the performance of the machine
under conditions for which the efficiency is less than the maximum. It is
more useful to plot the basic dimensionless performance parameters
Figure - Performance characteristics of a reaction
turbine (in dimensionless parameters)

28. One of the typical plots where variation in efficiency of different
reaction turbines with the rated power is shown.
Figure - Variation of efficiency with load

29. COMPARISON OF SPECIFIC SPEEDS OF
HYDRAULIC TURBINES
Figure shows the variation of efficiencies with the dimensionless specific
speed of different hydraulic turbines. The choice of a hydraulic turbine
for a given purpose depends upon the matching of its specific speed
corresponding to maximum efficiency with the required specific speed
determined from the operating parameters, namely, N (rotational
speed), p (power) and H (available head).
Figure - Variation of efficiency with specific
speed for hydraulic turbines