- A
penstock is a
sluice or gate or
intake structure that
controls water flow, or an
enclosed pipe that
delivers water to
hydro turbines and
sewerage systems...
-
turbine as well as the
highest head used to
produce hydro-electric energy. A
penstock rupture in 2000
forced the
closure of the
power plant and it was operational...
- On 7
February 1921, an
avalanche destro**** 23 m (75 ft) of the
wooden penstock that
carried water from the dam to the
generating station,
cutting off...
-
sluice used in gold
prospecting or fossicking. A mill race, leet, flume,
penstock or lade is a
sluice channeling water toward a
water mill. The
terms sluice...
- of
underground water tunnels and down a 420-metre (1,380 ft)
vertical penstock towards a
single underground power station. The
smelter became fully operational...
- in Kingston. On 24 June 1904,
while workers were
cleaning the station's
penstock,
water was
accidentally released down it
killing 33 of them. The power...
-
landslide which took out the
penstock. A
subsequent effort to
restore the
penstock a few
years later was inadequate, and the
penstock failed yet again. This...
- Cr**** fire,
resulting in the
deaths of five
workers in a
hydroelectric penstock.
After the incident, the U.S.
Chemical Safety and
Hazard Investigation...
- coopers. They have been used in the
construction of
large holding tanks and
penstocks at
hydro power developments. They are also used in the
construction of...
-
beginning of the
Laxapana Hydropower Complex,
involving a
number of dams,
penstocks, and
hydroelectric power stations. The dam
creates the
Maskeliya Reservoir...
