What is Kaplan Turbine? Kaplan Turbine is an axial flow reaction turbine with adjustable blades. This turbine was developed in the year 1913 by Viktor Kaplan, who was a Austrian Professor. In his design, he combined automatically adjusted propeller blades and automatically adjusted wicket gates to obtain efficiency over a wide range of water flow […]
History of an Automobile “There is nothing new in the world except the history you don’t know” very rightly said as the thing we use today always makes us curious about its history, specially engineers like me always have many question in our minds like Who invented it? , What was the idea behind the
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Introduction From 2 wheeler like bike to 4 wheeler like cars we often hear the term “Clutch” whenever we talk about gears or gear shifting in an automobile, as we know to shift the drive from high torque to high speed or vice versa we need to press the clutch pedal than only the gear
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Introduction Turbines using the impulse action of water are the best ones. No it’s not like that reaction turbines are more efficient, when all of this was happening, James B. Francis, an American civil engineer comes up with his turbine called Francis turbine. What’s different he is doing!!! He is just mixing them up. The
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Introduction From wind mills to hydro-power plants we have reaction turbines all around the world to generate electricity efficiently. Almost 60% of turbines used in hydro-power plants are reaction turbine. Unlike impulse turbines they remain dipped in water and use the pressure energy of water to generate power. The idea of dipping the whole turbine
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Introduction “The development of a family starts with a old grandfather” very rightly said as with the introduction of the transmission in an automobile vehicle, development of a device that can transfer fluctuating power (rotational motion) between 2 shafts became essential due to which various researches had been done and finally the engineering minds of
Introduction “Fire” this word always gives goosebumps to an automobile enthusiast as for him the word fire resembles with the power, of course it is true, fire is the most important source of energy from the birth of the mother earth. In an engine as we know fire which is produced by the spark plug
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Introduction Heard about electricity generation by hydropower plants, know what makes them so efficient that they are lightening up our houses. Yeah that’s the whole effort we have put-in to design our turbines, and make them more and more efficient. Now days an efficient turbine can utilize up-to 90% of the water’s potential energy. Although
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Introduction Ever wonder, why do we need an explosion inside an engine cylinder? The answer would be we require to cause a movement of piston in order to get rotational output from the crankshaft, but let’s just ponder if it is just about the piston movement so why do we depend on explosion? We can
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Introduction Going for a long ride, check for water in your vehicle, wait what don’t they run on diesel or petrol. Yeah right why we need water then. Water is circulated in engine to keep it in optimum operating temperature range. Yes, we have got an optimum temperature range, we cannot cool it down too
