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penstock [′pen‚stäk]
(civil engineering) A valve or sluice gate for regulating water or sewage flow. (engineering) A closed water conduit controlled by valves and located between the intake and the turbine in a hydroelectric plant. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The repair work, mostly funded by the Environment Agency, involved raising the level of the lake by 100 millimetres, improving and resurfacing the lakeside visitor walkway, combating embankment erosion, installing new penstock valves from the Dee estuary and increasing the rock armour along the foreshore. The repair work, mostly funded by the Environment Agency, involved raising the level of the lake by 100 millimetres, improving and resurfacing the lakeside visitor walkway, combating embankment erosion, installing new penstock valves from the Dee estuary and increasing the rock armour along the foreshore. The penstock narrows the water and, by doing so, increases its pressure, forcing it back under Route 122, spinning the two Hercules vertical turbines originally made by Holyoke Machine. |
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