Turbine flow design has changed little since their invention in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries due to the simplicity and power of these devices to extract energy from the movement of a ...

I have a soft spot for Pelton wheels – those power generating turbines that need an awful lot of pressure and very little flow, and can score high 90s of percent in efficiency terms. On a visit to ...

A pioneering horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine developed by Voith Hydro at the 326-GWh Gerlos 1 pumped storage facility in the Ziller Valley, Austria, is setting new benchmarks for the ...