The Francis Turbine is a reaction turbine. It is the most common turbine in the world, due to its ability to work for a wide range of applications. Its moving part (runner) is a radial impeller.
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Engineering Educational Equipment
TecQuipment designs, develops and manufactures a comprehensive range of technical education products and engineering educational equipment for schools, colleges, universities, and industrial training centers worldwide. Products cover disciplines within mechanical, civil, electrical and structural engineering courses.
TecQuipment’s engineering educational equipment includes high-quality user guides, which provide relevant theory, technical information and experiments. The comprehensive level of support helps students understand the principles involved with each experiment, enabling them to put theory into practice.
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Item Number:MFP101D - Experiment
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Item Number:H18 - Experiment
The Francis Turbine is a laboratory-scale reaction turbine for use with TecQuipment’s Digital Hydraulic Bench (H1F, available separately
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Item Number:TD1005 - Experiment
Benchtop apparatus that illustrates free and forced convection from different transfer surfaces.
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Item Number:TM1016V
Benchtop apparatus that investigates the free and forced vibrations of a rigid beam with a spring, and a simply supported beam. Demonstrates Rayleigh's approximation and Dunkerley's method.
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Item Number:TM165
An experiment that demonstrates the oscillatory motion of a disc attached to a slender rod. Fits on to the Free Vibrations Test Frame.
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Item Number:TM167
An experiment that demonstrates the oscillatory motion of a rigid beam, pivoted at one end and suspended by a spring at the other. Fits on to the Free Vibrations Test Frame.
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Item Number:TM164
Experiment that uses simple harmonic motion theory to demonstrate how to calculate the frequency of oscillation of simple mass-spring systems; demonstrates Hooke's law. Fits on to the Free Vibrations Test Frame.
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Item Number:TM166
An experiment that uses the fundamental theory and Rayleigh's approximation to calculate the frequency of oscillation of a cantilever. It also utilizes Dunkerley's method to predict the 'beam only' frequency. Fits on to the Free Vibrations Test Frame.
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Item Number:TM160 - Base Unit
A sturdy bench top frame for use with the Free Vibrations experiment modules.
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Item Number:ES8 - Experiment
TecQuipment's Friction and Inclined Plane Kit (ES8) demonstrates kinetic and static sliding friction and rolling friction on bodies and between different surfaces on a flat or inclined plane.