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5/29/2012
2nd Small Scale Hydroelectric Power
Workshop (May 2012)
GILKES TURGO & COMPACT
TURGO TURBINES
May 2012
Pretoria, South Africa
•First Turbine installed 1854 at Old Hutton, nr Kendal
•Installed turbine in 1881 at the Cragside estate,
Northumberland. - First house in the UK to have electric light.
•Invented Turgo Turbine in 1919
Gilkes Turgo
•Currently working on new projects in Zimbabwe, Canada, Guatemala, New Zealand, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Western Samoa, and many
sites in the UK
•Sizes ranging from 50kW to 15 MW
•Private land owners through to major Utility Companies.
GILKES TODAY
Gilkes Turgo
Gilkes invented the TURGO in 1919
Impulse machine
Head range from 50 - 300 metres
Power output upto 10MW
Act as PRV’s on WTP
Gilkes Turgo
Gilkes Turgo
Compact Turgo
Designed by GILKES in 2005
Plug in and go
Head 40 – 150 metres
Flow 50 – 250 l/sec
Power output 30 – 200kW
Compact Turgo
Compact Turgo graph
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105N
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750 rpm
845 rpm
950 rpm
1065 rpm
1195 rpm
1333 rpm
1500 rpm
1690 rpm
10.5" Turgo7.5" Turgo
1065
1195
1333 rpm
1500 rpm
1690 rpm
1900 rpm
2140 rpm
2400 rpm
Faure Turgo Installed in 1991
Power output 1.5MW
Faure Turgo Spare runner
