Developmental Study of Impulse Type Oil Turbine

To take out mechanical power from high pressure oil, an impulse type oil turbine of a construction similar to the Terry steam turbine was developed on the basis of the fundamental experiment and the study of the performance of a test turbine. The turbine mainly consists of a nozzle, a turbine wheel with many deflection grooves and several fixed deflection boxes. Comparing with a positive-displacement type oil moter, the oil turbine has such features as feasibility of high rotational speed, low idling resistance, simple construction etc. As the fundamental experiment, a static test of two-dimensional deflectors was carried out and design data for a deflector with minimum losses were obtained. Based on the data obtained from the above, a test turbine was built, and its performance was measured at different rotational speeds and also at different jet velocities. From this study the limit of performance of an impulse type oil turbine was clarified, and the necessary data for designing an efficient oil turbine were obtained.