Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 205
be, in which case only part of the headis lost, as described later. i\ reaction turbine may discharge into thefree air, in which case the same loss occurs; or it may l)e drowned—that is, set below the water level in the tail-race; or it may dischargeinto a suction or draft-tube; in these two latter… … Fig. 78. Illustrating Operation of Diffuser. as it leaves the runner-l)uckets of a radial outward-flow turbine, iscalled a difjiiscr. It usuallv consists of two fixed conical zones flarinout opposite the water edges of the turbine crowns, giving a bell^mouthed or divergent profile to the walls of…
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