Isuzugawa Station was opened on December 15, 1969. The station has used PiTaPa automated wicket gates since April 1, 2007.
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Francis type turbine. A wicket gate, or guide vane, is a component of water turbines to control the flow of water that enters the turbine. A series of small openings of the wicket gates surround the turbine. When the wicket gates are opened wider, more water will flow into the turbine runner which results in higher power output.
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Wicket gates is a train station in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai).
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Ikenoura Station opened on March 1, 1970. The station is unattended, and has used PiTaPa automated wicket gates since April 1, 2007.
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The dam is long and includes 108 wicket gates and a Tainter gate; it is one of two Illinois dams that still use wicket gates. The control station is for the most part a large, functional building, though it has Art Deco surrounds at the main entrance. The district also contains an original maneuver boat designed to raise and lower the dam's wicket gates; the boat is still used and is one of four boats of its kind left in the United States. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 2004.
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Kamiyashiro Station was opened on 10 December 1970. The wicket gates were automated to use the Manaca smart card system from 11 February 2011.
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Hongō Station was opened on 1 April 1969. The wicket gates were automated to use the Manaca smart card system from 11 February 2011.
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Ikeshita Station was opened on 15 June 1960. The wicket gates were automated to use the Manaca smart card system from 11 February 2011.
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Higashiyama Kōen Station was opened on 1 April 1963. The wicket gates were automated to use the Manaca smart card system from 11 February 2011.
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Higashi-Kaijin Station is an underground station with a single island platform located on the second story underground. The wicket gates are located on the first story underground.
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Asama Station has a two opposed side platforms. The station has no station building. The station is unattended, and has used PiTaPa automated wicket gates since April 1, 2007.
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The plant's performance is considered poor during monsoon due to high volume of abrasive sediments. The sediment handling facilities are considered insufficient causing abrasive of turbines, butterfly valves, and wicket gates.
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Yaotome Station is an elevated station with a single island platform serving two tracks on the third floor of the station building, with a concourse and ticketing facilities and wicket gates underneath.
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Passengers are able to cross to the platform island by means of small level crossings after the automatic ticket wicket gates. Passengers then climb steps (south) or a ramp (north) to platform level.
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Keikyū Tsurumi Station is an elevated station with an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks. The platforms are on the third floor of the station building, with the wicket gates and main concourse on the second floor.
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Kakuōzan Station was opened on 1 April 1963. The wicket gates were automated to use the Manaca smart card system from 11 February 2011. This station serves part of the upper class district of Nagoya and is near Kakuōzan Nittai-ji Buddhist temple.
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In 2006, GE Energy was selected to upgrade the two turbines. The $50 million project included replacing the turbines, stators, wicket gates and transformers. Installation of the first generator began in 2008; it began operation in 2009. Replacement of the second generator was completed in late 2010.
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The Peoria and LaGrange locks replaced older locks on the lower Illinois River. The lock uses Chanoine wicket gates, which allow for navigation on the river, rather than the Tainter gates seen elsewhere on the river. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 2004.
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The JGR became the JNR (Japan National Railways) after World War II. Freight operations were discontinued from October 1, 1980. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central. Automatic wicket gates using the TOICA smart card were installed from October 25, 2006.
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Retrieved 28 April 2010 The majority of paths have wicket gates or kissing gates, but there are some stiles. There is no access off the marked paths. There are no bridleways; cycling is prohibited and horse riding requires a permit on the land owned by the National Trust. Camping and overnight parking are prohibited.
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Imaike Station was opened on 15 June 1960 as a station on the Higashiyama Line. The Sakura-dōri Line connected to the station on 10 September 1989. The wicket gates were automated to use the Manaca smart card system from 11 February 2011. Platform screen doors were installed on the Sakura-dōri Line platform on 30 April 2011.
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Sault Ste Marie Canal emergency swing dam The Sault Canal Emergency Swing Dam is an all-metal structure built by the Dominion Bridge Company in 1896. It sits along the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal, to protect against the rush of water that would occur if something ever damaged the Sault locks. It operates by swinging over the canal and dropping wicket gates into the water.
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Also steps were taken to improve the airflow though the powerhouse as described below. Beginning in 2002 a major refurbishment was undertaken on all generating units, which among other works consisted of installing of new stator cores and windings, re-insulating the rotor poles, refurbishing the turbine runner and wicket gates, replacing the wearing ring on the turbine shaft, replacing the stator air coolers, as well as refurbishing where necessary any mechanical components.
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The station has a single side platform on a north-south axis, serving one ground-level bi- directional track. The station has one entrance/exit at the south of the station. In addition to automatic ticket vending machines, a ticket window is located adjacent to the automatic wicket gates, which is manned at all times during station opening hours. The first train to Kokubunji departs at 05:14 and the last train departs at 00:27 bound for Hagiyama.
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Affinity laws allow the output of a turbine to be predicted based on model tests. A miniature replica of a proposed design, about one foot (0.3 m) in diameter, can be tested and the laboratory measurements applied to the final application with high confidence. Affinity laws are derived by requiring similitude between the test model and the application. Flow through the turbine is controlled either by a large valve or by wicket gates arranged around the outside of the turbine runner.
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Nakanogō Station opened on July 23, 1929 as a station on the Shima Electric Railway. The line was one of six private companies consolidated into Mie Kotsu by order of the Japanese government on February 11, 1944. When Mie Kotsu dissolved on February 1, 1964, the station became part of the Mie Electric Railway, which was then acquired by Kintetsu on April 1, 1965. The station building was reconstructed in 1969 and has used PiTaPa automated wicket gates since 2007.
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Shima-Akasaki Station opened on July 23, 1929 as a station on the Shima Electric Railway. The line was one of six private companies consolidated into Mie Kotsu by order of the Japanese government on February 11, 1944. When Mie Kotsu dissolved on February 1, 1964, the station became part of the Mie Electric Railway, which was then acquired by Kintetsu on April 1, 1965. The station building was reconstructed in 1969 and has used PiTaPa automated wicket gates since 2007.
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A Bonneville Dam Kaplan turbine after 61 years of service The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan,, ...Victor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine.... who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to achieve efficiency over a wide range of flow and water level. The Kaplan turbine was an evolution of the Francis turbine. Its invention allowed efficient power production in low-head applications which was not possible with Francis turbines.
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This included adding "trash-rack cleaning machine, sluice gate and trash racks" to filter out trash that flows through the river into the dam. Phase 3 is scheduled to be finished in 2017 and includes a final restoration of the units including, "new runner, rewinding the generator, stator restack, converting rotating exciter to static excitation and refurbishment of wicket gates." As part of the remodeling of the plant a computer model was created to determine the optimal size and shape of the turbines to ensure maximum productivity from the plant. This will allow the plant to operate at a wider distribution of water levels and increase the electric production to 101 MW.
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The new powerhouse contained three vertical Kaplan turbines (supplied by the S. Morgan Smith Company) capable of generating 18 MW of power, which gave Black Eagle the largest generating capacity of any of Montana Power's five dams in the Great Falls area. The Smith company also made the oil-pressure governors (which regulated each turbine's speed) and draft tubes (which slowed the water down as it left the turbine, allowing the faster-moving water above to keep imparting energy to the turbine's propellers). The scroll-shaped inlets and wicket gates around the turbines were cemented into the powerhouse's basement, and each turbine installed in its own pit. Each turbine connected through the first floor roof to an Allis- Chalmers generator rated at 7,000 kVA.
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Blair Atholl station in 1962 looking west towards Black Island The station appears to have opened in 1904 when it is mentioned in the Strathern Herald for 11 June 1904 in relation to the camp of the Scottish Horse at Blair Atholl. > The preparations for the camp of the Scottish Horse at Blair Atholl are > being pushed forwards with all expedition. At the level crossing at the > Black Island large wicket gates, capable of admitting bicycles, have been > erected, while the ground on the south side of the railway has been lowered > four feet to admit of easy access of vehicular traffic. To the north of the > crossing a substantial platform of about 200 feet in length has been erected > by the railway company who intend to run the special trains conveying the > troopers and their horses right out to the Black Island platform.
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Bromley Cross Station showing original low level platform and Signal Box The Grade II-listed signal box at the station is a Smith and Yardley type 1 brick box opened in December 1875, almost certainly timed to service the new connections to short sidings that were opened that winter, these works being checked and then approved with minor modifications by the Board of Trade inspector Colonel Hutchinson in documentation dated February 1876. One interesting requirement was that the wicket gates had to be locked by levers in the signal cabin and this basic protection can now be dated with certainty to that time.Board of Trade (Railway Dept) inspection report, Feb 1876, original File No. R1573, now at National Archives MT6/161/30 The box, one of three types, was supplied by Manchester-based Emily Sophia Yardley, a widow who had taken over her late husband's ironmongery business, together with her step-brother William Smith, who was recorded in the April 1861 Census records as being an 'engineer' aged 21. The extension to the goods yard at the station by the early 1900s, together with new loop lines and increased signalling, brought about an enlargement of the lever frame in the signal box.
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