Fig. 10.3.7. b) Sectional drawing of vertical shaft
FT
at Guri, 2nd polvcr house, Rio Carorli.
\lcnczuela (owner
Corporation
Vcnezolana dc Guayana, Republic of \lcnc~~~cla) built by
Hit;~s;hi
Ltd, Japan.
H
=
11
l
to 146
m,
P
=
476 to 730 MW continuous, temporary output
767
Mi\'.
n
=
112,5 rpm. After previous designs, commissioncd bctwccn 1968 and
1977
\vith outpt~ts
of
P
=
218 to 400
M
W
at heads of
H
=
11
5
m to 136
m,
thesc 10 units. commisioned
198
1
arc at
present the
most potverful
FTs
built in Japan. Simplified design \vith par:tllc.l p1;1ic spiral c;ising.
conical hub, slag-welded shaft. The runner is a onc-piece casting of 13
%
Cr
-
1
"/o
Ni stainless stes!.
Iodate the largcst of this kind in the \vorld of 7,17 n1 outermost diametcr, and a tveight of
130
tonr.
For these machines the hcad of the Guri plant has becn increascd from
11
1
m
to
146
m
by increasing
the crest height of the concretc gravity dam. The submergence equals that of the prcvious design,.
According to the author's in~pression on sitc, the 400 MW FTs showed bad cavitation pitting after
one
ycar of full load operation under the smaller hcad of
11
I
m. (Drawing courtesy Hitachi, Ltd.
Japan.)
Fig.
10.3.7. a) Sectional drawing of vertical shaft FT at Hbrspranget, 1,ulc river: Swedcn (owncr
Swedish state power board) 4th unit built
by
KaMeWa
AB,
Kristineham, Stvcdcn.
H
=
103
m.
P
=
182,8
MW,
n
=
166,7
rpm. Runner throat diameter Dl
=
4,235 m. For I~ighest reliability the
stay vanes were inscrtcd into corresponding holcs
of
the stay rlng weldcd from steel plater. ant1 tlrcr!
connected with thc wetted face of the stay ring on both sides by means of a corner \veld. When
commissioncd in 1952 thc
average
annual prodxtion of 2020 GWh of Hirsprangct made a contri-
bution of
more than
2G%
o: Sweden's electricity production. With an extension in
1974
to
SO
the
Production of Hirsprangct ;:.as raised to 2240 GWh and the installed capacity to
935
hIW.
Thc
lasi
and
5th
unit then installed by KaMcWa
had
an output of
P
=
450
bIW
(n
=
83.3 rpm) with an axial
tons, and was since that time the most
powcrful hydro turbine in Europe. The water
s usual in Sweden) of a vertical penstock to the underground power station
and
a
very
1
tailrace
tunnel with an upstream gate. A 400
kV
AC
transnlission linc
with
a Icngth
first of its kind in the world was built in 1952 from Hirsprangct to central Swedcn.
locatio~l (north of thc Arctic Circle) and the need
fo;
expcrienccd and skilled
town with the ncccssary social
scrvices had
13
be built at sitc. Thc town
m"sistcd of houses for 1200 employees and their families in all 2200 people. as well as shops,
bs~itnls, post
and
police station, other social services such as sport and leisurc htcilitics and church.
'Dr
wing courtesy KaMcWa
AB,
Kristincham, Sweden.)
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