It is nice to see the work of Voith and others hydroelectric manufacturers. And their several manufacturing & assembly processes. Congratulations to all professionals involved worldwide! Just one additional comment: Is the video title correct? I think you would mean: "The best video of Hydroelectric Turbine Manufacturing And Assembly Processes I've Ever Seen"
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I gess you do not nothing to say that turbine it's the largest you have seen!! Try on Google write Itaipu Hydroeletric in Brazil, men!! The impeller just weigth 350 metric tons, and each screw bolt that keep the impeller fix in the shaft weight 500 kg.
The capital cost is high, and varies with location and civil engineering infrastructure required. Operating and maintenance costs are very low. The life expectancy for new installations may be well over 100 years.
je connais une turbine Pelton in french Alpes running perfectly well since 1898 with low maintenance. Just give a glance on french hydro equipment ... Barrage de roselend ?
To the first approximation, a high head makes for a lower cost turbine installation, a low head make for a more expensive installation, given the same power output.
Surely it make more sense to make like 6 smaller ones, it's not exactly repairable or suitable for maintenance. I get the impression humans just have to make the next biggest thing regardless of cost.
@@BasementEngineer That's the case with just about everything but that's not the only consideration, if it was everything would be as big as the planet.
@@dubsydubs5234 It goes without saying that logistical considerations always play a serious role in building such gigantic equipment. Long ago and far away it was my job to produce manufacturing procedures for fabrication and machining of 3 mill shells, each weighed 165 tons, 10 meters dia. and 5 meters long. Was to be shipped by railway. We built them, machined them, and shipped them. We even made a buck or two doing all this. Machining the 2 flanges on each shell to the required tolerances was interesting.
You haven't seen much, have you? China has been building 850MW hydro turbine sets for Wudongde which is generating and has now installed at least two 1000MW units in Baihetan Hydro station. The wikipedia is still reporting the world biggest hydro turbine is currently 700MW! The 1000MW hydroelectric turbine should be the world biggest. its runner weighs 350 tonnes and the generator alone, 16.5m dia and 3.86m high, is 2295 tonnes. As far as I know in term of capacity the top world's biggest power plants are all hydro World No. 1 is Three Gorges in China with 22,500MW output from 32 No. of 700MW turbines generating since 2003. No. 2 Baihetan in Chjina has 16,000MW from 16 No. of 1000 MW turbines (two units installed, schedule to commenced operation Jul 2021. No. 3 Itaipu in Brazil has 14,000 MW from 20 No. of 700MW turbines generating since 1984 No. 4 Xiluodu in China has 13,800 MW from 18 No. 770 MW turbines generating since 2013 If I am not mistaken these are all Francis machines.
Pourquoi mélange t on les principes de fonctionnement des Francis Pelton et Kaplan Le novice ne comprends plus rien... Une Pelton avec des directrices ça n'existe pas Bonsoir
Interesting, the rotor has modules attached around the circumference, not a traditional generator, which would normally be wound with miles of copper wire.
