• Installed on Mayfield Hinds Irrigation Scheme in Mid Canterbury.

• Turbine drives two irrigation pumps delivering 180 L/sec plus up to 190 kW generated back into national grid.

• Turbine maximum flowrate of 4.2 m3/sec with operating head 7.2 m.

• Takes all the water out of the scheme main race, extra water is bypassed down the adjacent baffled spillway.

• Capital cost of approximately $350,000.

• Annual electricity offset or export of approximately $90000.

• Crosstech Engineering was responsible for design and supervision of total scheme, manufactured and installed the crossflow turbine and other associated mechanical components and constructed civil works.

Combined generation and pumping water turbine – Hinds

Combined generation and pumping water turbine discharge