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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...
- turbines, it enters the intake towers and then four gradually narrowing penstocks which funnel the water down towards the powerhouse. The intakes provide...
- 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...
- network of flumes to reservoirs, then p****ed down 220-metre (720 ft) penstocks to the generators. West Bengal State Electricity Board (WBSEB) took over...
- 646 m (18,524 ft) long tunnel, which houses three penstocks of 6.2 m (20.3 ft) diameter. These penstocks created a net head of 190 m (623 ft), feeding three...
- 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...
- northwest, is also transported from its reservoir, the Lac de Cleuson. Three penstocks transport water from Lac des Dix to the Chandoline, Fionnay, Nendaz and...
- (300 m) shaft which bifurcates into two penstocks (for a total of six) before reaching the turbines. Each penstock is 18 feet (5.5 m) in diameter and between...