Pelton wheel
Turbina hidráulica Pelton
- Date
- 1878–1880 · confidence medium
- Place
- Camptonville, California, United States
- Credited to
- Lester Allan Pelton
- People
- 👤 Lester Allan Pelton1829–1908
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Impulse wheel with double-cupped buckets that harnesses high-head water falls with efficiencies above 90%. It made hydroelectric power profitable in mountainous areas.
What it led to
- High-mountain hydroelectric power stations (Alps, Sierra Nevada, Pyrenees)
- Electrification of coal-poor regions
- Complement to Francis and Kaplan turbines