Research Article

Design, Modeling, and CFD Analysis of a Micro Hydro Pelton Turbine Runner: For the Case of Selected Site in Ethiopia

Table 6

Physical baseline bucket dimensions result for the selected site data.

Parameters, formula [6]CalculationDimensions/resultUnit

Height of bucket, D170mm
Cavity length: %D28mm
Length to impact point: D57mm
Width of bucket opening, D56mm
Bucket thickness: D1mm
Approximate number of buckets, 18ā€‰
Depth of the bucket, D60.5mm
Width of the bucket, D190mm