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Chapter 7—Asynchronous Loads 7–8<br />

task of turning the turbine into the wind in light winds and out of the wind in strong winds<br />

is accomplished by some rather ingenious mechanisms which we shall not discuss in detail.<br />

These have been perfected over many years of experimentation and work very reliably. A<br />

picture of the vane mechanism for the Dempster, another well-known water pumper, is shown<br />

in Fig. 3.<br />

Figure 3: Dempster water pumper. (Courtesy of Dempster Industries, Beatrice, Nebraska.)<br />

We now return to the matter of selecting turbine size and pump size for a given application.<br />

Manufacturers data sheets are essential at this point. A typical data sheet for the Dempster<br />

water pumper is shown in Table 7.1. This table presents data for five turbine diameters and<br />

five cylinder sizes. The original table gave head in feet and capacity in gallons per hour, but<br />

these have been converted to meters and liters per second in this table.<br />

We note in the table that the product of head and capacity is almost constant for any given<br />

diameter turbine, as would be expected from Eq. 3. The rated wind speed of the Dempster<br />

is 15 mi/h (6.7 m/s) so the capacities shown will not be exceeded greatly in stronger winds,<br />

due to the speed control mechanism on the turbine.<br />

Wind Energy Systems by Dr. Gary L. Johnson November 21, 2001

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