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Message No. 20856, Started by R.Wardell on 10/14/09

Please excuse my intrusion here.  I have no intention of wasting any one's time.  I'm designing a water wheel driven, closed vane radial turbine for the purpose of providing high pressure /volume to a "Pelton Wheel" driven induction generator.  I will  be  releasing the planes over the web for all to use once completed.

My question is how to determine how much pressure the turbine will produce given its displacement, RPM, and diameter.

It is an 8ft  turbine,  driven at appoxamately 30 RPM.  I understand the wieght of the water.  The equation I'm looking for is how the centrifical force at 4ft radious and 30 RPM works out so I don't make the turbine too big and it self destructs on the first revolution. 

Thanks for the help.  And again if I don't belong here just let me know.

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did you look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel   &nbs...
No. 20858, Posted by gerdb on 10/16/09, 08:50 PST.

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