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Definition of Penstocks

Penstock
Penstock Pen"stock, n. [Etymol. uncertain; perh. fr. pen an inclosure + stock.] 1. A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses. 2. The barrel of a wooden pump.

Meaning of Penstocks from wikipedia

- technology of mill ponds and watermills, with penstocks diverting pond waters to drive the mills. Penstocks for hydroelectric installations are normally...
- Scheme, which has wood stave penstocks on operating power stations Lake Margaret Power Station, which had a wood stave penstock replaced in 2010 "Pipe bursting...
- outflow. This height difference is called the head. A large pipe (the "penstock") delivers water from the reservoir to the turbine. This method produces...
- capabilities of a dam, the water may be run through a large pipe called a penstock before the turbine. A variant on this simple model uses pumped-storage...
- site in 2010 enables pumping of water from the Rakaia River back up the penstock to increase the water availability in the RDR for agricultural irrigation...
- 168 ft) long, later replaced in part with fibregl**** penstocks. More recently (2010) the penstocks from Coon Pond to the Mill Lake Station were replaced...
- 0 ft) dia 125-metre (410 ft) high surge shaft, three Dehar penstocks split to six penstocks and Dehar power plant with 6 x 165 MW generators. The system...
- turbines, it enters the intake towers and then four gradually narrowing penstocks which funnel the water down towards the powerhouse. The intakes provide...
- plant into a pumped-storage facility. Through the use of a new underground penstock, water that had been released through the turbines during times of peak...
- dam's powerhouse. The intake at the reservoir feeds water through three penstocks to the three separate 133 MW Francis turbine-generators. Each turbine-generator...