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penstock::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
| Type of | regulator |
Examples of penstock
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Sometimes the final approach of the water to the wheel is along a lengthy flume or penstock.
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Each generator is supplied with water by an individual penstock.
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A worker inside the Poatina penstock on the Western Tiers.
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While crews do regular inspections of the penstock, this is the first time epoxy recoating was ever done inside the pipe.
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In both pictures of the end gates, the string of penstock openings are visible along the sides at the bottom.
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Wet Earth Colliery Exploration Group has excavated the old penstock and turbine house and some restoration has been completed.
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During the day, that water flows downhill through the penstock to turbines that generate electricity and then into a lower reservoir at about 10,000 feet.
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- Sluicegate: regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
- A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydraulic turbines and sewerage systems. It is a term that has been inherited from the technology of wooden watermills.
- (Penstocks) Large pipes that carry water from Masonry Dam to the Cedar Falls Powerhouse, for operation of hydroelectric turbines.
- A large pipe which carries moving water from the reservoir to a turbine generator in a hydropower plant.
- The pipe leading from the water intake to the hydraulic turbine.
- A pipeline or conduit designed to withstand pressure surges leading from a forebay or reservoir to power-producing turbines, or pump units. Conduit used to convey water under pressure to the turbines of a hydroelectric plant. ...
- Pipe or other enclosed, pressurized conduit for the specific use of conveying water to a power plant from a dam or diversion above the plant.
- A valve-controlled conduit pipe (for rapidly draining a canal section).
- A closed conduit or pipe for conducting water to the powerhouse.
