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Centrifugal Pumps Design and Application 2nd ed - Val S. Lobanoff, Robert R. Ross (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992)

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Hydraulic Power Recovery Turbines 263<br />

Figure 14-11. Typical performance characteristics for an HPRT with fix<strong>ed</strong> guide<br />

vanes.<br />

Figure 14-12. Typical performance characteristics for an HPRT with an adjustable<br />

guide vane assembly.<br />

The typical performance characteristic curves for an HPRT with an adjustable<br />

guide vane assembly are shown in Figure 14-12. The adjustable<br />

guide vane assembly performs, as one can see, as a variable orifice in a<br />

large number of fix<strong>ed</strong>-pressure-differential systems. The vane setting<br />

will control the flow at a certain differential pressure.<br />

In Figure 14-13, the best efficiency points of each vane setting or opening<br />

are connect<strong>ed</strong> to a single line <strong>and</strong> compar<strong>ed</strong> with the efficiency curve<br />

of a hydraulic turbine with fix<strong>ed</strong> inlet vanes. Because the runner is de-

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