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HYDROELECTRIC SITES:
Alternatives Hydro
Anasagunticook Lake Dam Replacement-
C.Fay & W.Fay
Appleton HEP-Jim Lichoulas
Appleton Wisconsin Anniversary
Badger Pond Dam Removal
Senor Bonifettis' sites in
Chile
Chittendon Falls
Claytor Dam
Collins Bascule Dam
ESAC WORKS July 1985
Fiske
Mill
1852 Fourneyron
Golden
Pond Hydro
Harry Terbush Sites
Hunts Pond
Indian River Rebuild
Kaplans
Jaffery Fire Protection
Konkapot Creek
Lake May
Pelton Wheel Removal
Livermore Falls
Martinsville Hydro
OSV
Pepperell
Shaker Mill Dam
Silk Knitters- Ron MacLeod
South
Village Dam
Sparhawk Mills
Tannery Pond
Tannery Rebuild
Turners Falls Generator Rewind
Valatie Falls
Valley Paper
Wynoochee Hydro
USEFUL ENGINEERING:
Admitting Air to Turbine Runners Improves Efficiency,
S. Logan Kerr
Air Admission to Hydro Runners,
David Cox, USCOE, Kerr Dam
A Self-Adjusting
Spring Bed Bearing- Henry G. Reist ASME 1646
The Banki Water Turbine Mockmoore and Merryfield
Barrel Stave Bearing Repair
Bearing Currents:
Their Origin and Prevention C. T. Pearce
Bishops Method- STABGM Program
Blade Design Kovalev
Blade Pitting- Boving LTD 1930
Cavitation- Accelerated Research, Allis Chalmers
Research
Cavitation & Vibration of a Draft Tube
Cavitation- Prevention & Reduction, Allis Chalmers
Research
Causes & Effects of Cavitation in Hydraulic Turbines
Chain Turbine by: Nguyen Minh Duy
Chain Turbine Mechanics- Discussions with Duy
Characteristics of Modern Hydraulic Turbines-Chester
Larner
Comparative Tests On Experimental Draft Tubes- C M
Allen & I A Winter 1923
Design of an Overshot Waterwheel
(by Carl Weidner)
Design of Pelton Buckets
Design of Small Water Turbines for Farm and Small
Communities
Design of the runner of a
Kaplan turbine for small hydroelectric power plants: Timo Flaspöhler
Draft Tube Design
Draft Tubes of Hydro-Electric Stations by M. F. Gubin
Draft Tube Tests
Ejection into Tailraces of Hydropower Plants: S. M.
Slisskii
Erection & Alignment of Vertical Waterwheel Generator
Units-R.O. Standing
Evolution of Hydraulic Prime Movers-Byron McCoy
Fall Increaser- Henry Ford
Fall Increaser Herschel Venturi Tube
Fall Increaser
Moody Ejector Turbine
Fall Increaser Hydraulic Jump Apron
Flashboard Pins
Gatecase Design- Kovalev
Generator Shaft Design Calculation-
Olav Hodtvedt
Governor Theory for the Plant Operator
Graphics of Water Wheels- William Fox
Hydraulic Motors-
M. Bresse & F. A. Mahan 1869
Hydraulic Power
Transmission by Compressed Air
Hydraulic Rams
their Principals and Construction by J. Wright Clarke
Hydraulic Turbine and Governor Field Erection
Information
Hydraulic Turbines- Robert Long Daugherty
Hydraulic Turbines by Arnold Pfau
Hydraulic Turbines Gelpke & Van Cleve
Hydrokinetic Energy in Massachusetts, William D. B.
Fay
Hydrostatic Beam Analysis
HYDROTURBINES
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION N. N. KOVALEV
Impulse Turbines by Ely Hutchinson
Interference fitting a large runner shaft
Kaplan Blade Design NACA Air Foil- Report No. 460
Kaplan Blade Design NACA Air Foil- Report No. 628
Kaplan Design- Kovalev
Kaplan Design Marko Kogovsek.xls
A Laboratory Study
to Improve the Efficiency of Crossflow Turbines- N. Aziz & V. Desai
Loading Vertical
Thrust Bearings R. C. Johnson
Low Head Hydroplants, Emil Mosonyi
Meggering Generators
Meggering Earth
Resistance
Motors as Generators for Microhydro, Nigel Smith
Miroslav Nechleba
Natick Dam Powerhouse Calcs
Operation & Maintenance of Hydro-Generators
Out Gassing
of Cross Flow Turbines
Parallel
Operation of Turbines Analysis
Pelton Design- Daugherty
Pole Key Extraction
Pouring a babbitt bearing
Powerhouse Design- Miniwatt Hydro
Powerhouse Design- Natick Dam
Power Plant Inspection
Rake-Leonard
Rake-Newport News
Rack Design-Chicopee-Olav Hotvedt
Rack Design- PHI- Bill Fay
Rack Design-PHI-Brian French
Rack Design-PHI-Ken Smith
Rack Design-ASCE
Rack Design- Hydraulic Institue of Munich
Rack Design-Flow
Induced Vibrations
Rigging a large generator
Selecting Hydraulic Reaction Turbines BUREC
Shafts- Kovalev
Shaft Couplings
Snows Improved Water Wheel Governor
Standard for Hydraulic Turbine and Generator Shaft
Couplings and Shaft Runout Tolerances
Stoplog Design Calculation
Stoplog Structure Design
Calculation
Stress Analysis of Hydraulic Turbine Parts, BUREC-
F.O. Ruud
Some Fluid Flow Characteristics of a Cross Flow Type
Hydraulic Turbine- Durgin & Fay
Technology of
Heavy Electric Machine Building HydroGenerators
Tenth Census of the US, 1880, Water Power of the US,
Part I- Professor Trowbridge
Tenth Census of the US, 1880, Water Power of the US,
Part II- Professor Trowbridge
Tests on a Kaplan Hydraulic Turbine
Tests Of A Rife Ram
Theoretical
Conditions Related to an Open Channel Flow Linear Turbine- Ishida & Service
Theory of Turbines- De Volson Wood
Tidal Energy for
Hydroelectric Power Plants by L. B. Bernshtein
Treatise relative
to the Testing of Water-Wheels and Machinery, James Emerson 1879
Trash Rack Differential Equations
2L/3
Trashrack Differential Equations General Solution f(x)
Turbine Water-Wheel Tests- Robert Horton
Turgo, A High Speed Impulse Turbine- Paul Wilson
Vortices at Intakes
Water Hammer and
Surge Tanks G. V. Aronovich
Water Hammer-Lorenzo Allievi-Text
Water Hammer-Lorenzo Allievi-Figures
Water Hammer-ASME Symposium 1933
Water Hammer _ Norman Gibson
Water Hammer-E.B.Strowger
Waterpower Engineering-Daniel Webster Mead
Water Turbines Contributions to Their Study,
Computation and Design-S.J. Zowski
Water Wheel Design- Ken Smith
Weights
WHAMO
White Hydraucone Regainer
Wooden Penstocks
TRADE CATALOUGES:
ASEA- Bearings for
Large Vertical Hydro-Electric Machines
Bradway Turbine
(progressive gate)
C.P.Bradway Turbine
Brook Waterwheel
Charmilles Turbines
Christiana Machine
(register gate)
Dayton Globe
Electric Machinery Company (EM)
English Pelton
ESAC
Essex Turbines
GE WW Vert Gen
GE Springbed Brg
General Electric-
Standard Specifications for Hydro Thrust Bearings and Runners
General
Electric-Thrust Bearings as used in Large General Electric Hydraulic
Turbine-driven Generators- GEA 2251E
GEH 527C
Gilkes Turbines
GilkesWaterpower
Head Gate Hoists- S. Morgan Smith
Holyoke Hercules
Hunt Cat 29 A&B
Hunt cylinder
J & W Jolly
(cylinder gate)
Kingsbury Brg
Leffel Bulletin 38
Leffel Bulletin 54
Leffel Hoppes Unit
Leffel Laboratory Unit
Leffel Miscellaneous
Kingsbury Catalog C-1
Lombard
Direct-Connected Oil Pressure Governors Bulletin N0. 113 October 1st, 1912
Lombard Governor
Lombard Governor Company Type T Instruction Book
Lombard Governors for Waterwheels and Steam
Engines-1902
Lombard Water Wheel
Governors Catalouge 26
Michell Bearings
Nohab- Water Turbines
Pelton Wheel (1909)
Pelton Wheel (1925)
Rife Hydraulic Engine
Ridgway Perfection Water-Wheel
Rodney Hunt
Samson PamK
Smith Bulletin 110
Smith Power Tables
Smith Kaplan
Smith Power
Smith Pelton
Smith Develop
Smith Turbines: Bulletin 105
Swain Turbine
Trump Hydraulic Turbines
Trump Turbines
Tyler Turbine
Vertical Shaft Water Wheel Driven Generators- General
Electric
Wellman Seaver Morgan
Westinghouse Small Vertical Waterwheel-Driven A-C
Generators, July 1944
Westinghouse WW Generators
Woodward Governor
Links:
Swiftriverhydro.com
damengineers.com
Smith Alternative Energy:
www.smithtest.com
Small Turbine
Manufacturers Websites:
www.waterturbine.com
www.varspeedhydro.com
www.hydropower.nu
www.ossberger.de
www.gilkes.com/