4. Environment
4.1 Drive turbines
please refer to the Hydraulic turbines section. Description and evolution
The highest falls (several hundred meters) are equipped with Pelton turbines. Originally, these turbines, whose ancestor was the mill wheel, had a horizontal axis and a single jet. The number of jets then multiplied as power levels increased, and today these turbines are generally vertical-axis, with the number of jets reaching 5 or 6 at the highest power levels (of the order of 200 MW).
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Francis turbines are used on a wide range of medium-sized...
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