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So, how to select a centrifugal pump to be used as a turbine to get the best efficiency. From the pump curves how can we find that? Say if the operating conditions are, 10 mtr head and discharge of 1 m3/sec.

Centrifugal pump as turbine! Dear Friends, Francis turbine and centrifugal pump has got the same (reverse ofcourse) technologies rt. Have they both got the same manufacturing criterion? will centrifugal pumb, if used as a turbine, have the same efficiency as that of francis turbine?