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Installed capacity at Bersimis No. 1 will be 1,200,000 hp; main dam is 2200 ft long at crest, 200 ft high and 900 ft wide at base, while Desroches dam is 1305 ft long and 200 ft high; river was diverted by tunnel 39 ft wide, 36 ft high, and 1050 ft long; Francis turbines develop 175,000 hp at 277 rpm under static head of 875 ft; first four units will be controlled by Woodward governors; other hydroelectric equipment described. (See also - n 6 June 1957 p 203-12)
Installed capacity at Bersimis No. 1 will be 1,200,000 hp; main dam is 2200 ft long at crest, 200 ft high and 900 ft wide at base, while Desroches dam is 1305 ft long and 200 ft high; river was diverted by tunnel 39 ft wide, 36 ft high, and 1050 ft long; Francis turbines develop 175,000 hp at 277 rpm under static head of 875 ft; first four units will be controlled by Woodward governors; other hydroelectric equipment described. (See also - n 6 June 1957 p 203-12)
Bersimis-Lac Casse scheme
Water Power
Perryman, O. (author)
Water Power ; 9
1957
10 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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