Applications
Contacts
In action almost everywhere
For more information please contact:
Pumps Used as Turbines
[email protected]
Drinking water supply systems
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Pressure reduction between elevated
and low level tank
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Pressure control in closed-loop systems
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Reduction of pressure head
Turn the Tide on Energy Needs
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Small hydropower stations
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Pumped storage plants
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Barrages
Retrofitting of small hydropower systems
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If customised Kaplan turbines are too expensive
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For heads starting from 10 metres
Industrial applications
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Pressure control in cooling circuits
Reduction of process water pressure
Omega pump
run in reverse
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Residual water utilisation in
Product Description
Product Range
Customer Benefits
A pump becomes a turbine
Expertise across the range
Efficient solutions help you win
Energy producers the world over rely on KSB. But our
KSB can draw on extensive know-how and many years of
Top-quality products, all-in solutions and first-class service:
pumps can do more than just assist the generating process.
experience in designing pumps to be used as turbines*.
KSB excellence spells success for you – for example
If the flow of water is reversed, the impeller starts turning in
So put our expertise to work for you, and experience
with pumps used as turbines.
the other direction, and the pump operates in turbine mode.
the quality of our products.
That keeps down costs, and makes energy generation and
For heads of 10 m and above:
recovery straightforward. Pumps used as turbines (PaTs)
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Fast amortization of your investment
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Reduced life cycle costs
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Omega (volute casing pump)
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Pumps as turbines supplied as all-in packages
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Etanorm (volute casing pump)
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Products and services from a single source (consulting,
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Multitec (ring-section pump)
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RDL family (volute casing pump)
provide a solution wherever more energy is required. And
prove again that KSB means a wide choice of applications,
as well as products.
planning, product design and selection, order
processing, commissioning, service, after-sales support)
For heads below 10 m and high flow rates:
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Axial flow pumps
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Large choice of products and materials
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Wide range of other components (e.g. valves)
(* Reference list and PaT performance curves on request)
Etanorm run in reverse
300
Single entry
Double entry
200
100
Head HT [m]
80
Several
pumps
operating
in parallel
Ring-section pumps
60
50
Volute casing pumps
40
P = 750 kW
30
P = 500 kW
P = 200 kW
20
P = 25 kW
10
10
P = 5 kW
20
30
50
P = 50 kW
P = 300 kW
P = 100 kW
P = 10 kW
100
200
Flow rate QT [l/s]
300
600
1000
2000