Hydraulic motors, with related subjects, including centrifugal pumps, pipes, and open channels, designed as a text-book for engineering schools (1905)
Church, Irving Porter, 1851-1931 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons; [etc, ] · leaf 49
ted to situations where the surface-level of the head-water is liable to change, the gate beingadjustable to different heads, and heights of orifice. To pro-vide for the easy escape of air from the bucket as the waterenters, ventilation is often resorted to, and is especiallynecessary in the case… … Fig. 11. Morins experiments with two breast wheels, both with well-fitting flumes, the efficiency, 77, was found to be =0.60 and0.70 respectively. In general r) ranges from 0.65 to 0.75 forbreast wheels; and for Wesserly wheels, as high breast wheelsare sometimes called, from 0.65 to 0.72. Some…
Hydraulic machinery
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