A hydraulic turbine has 85 m of elevation difference available at a flow rate of 0.25 m^3/s, and its overall turbine-generator efficiency is 91 percent. Determine the electric power output of this turbine.
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81 m/s^2. However, we don't have the mass (m) directly, but we have the flow rate (0.25 m^3/s) and we know that the density of water is approximately 1000 kg/m^3. So, we can calculate the mass flow rate as: mass flow rate = flow rate * density of water mass flow Show more…
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