A paddle wheel aereator used in an Indonesian shrimp pond
A paddle wheel is a form of waterwheel or impeller in which a number of paddles are set around the periphery of the wheel. It has several uses, of which some are:
Very low-lift water pumping, such as flooding paddy fields at no more than about 0.5 m (20 in) height above the water source.[1]
To move and mix algae culture in the raceway ponds used for algaculture.
Propulsion of watercraft (as a paddlewheel)
Low head hydro power (as a waterwheel)
Flow sensors
Aerators
The paddle wheel is an ancient invention but is still used today in a wide range of industrial and agriculture applications.
A paddlewheel is a form of waterwheel or impeller in which a number of paddles are set around the periphery of the wheel. It has several uses, of which...
the water. In antiquity, paddlewheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans...
Paddle boat may refer to: Paddle steamer or paddleboat, a boat propelled by a paddlewheel Pedalo, a boat propelled by pedalling with the feet A paddlecraft...
the term "paddle" can also be used to describe objects of similar shapes or functions: A rotating set of paddle boards known as a paddlewheel is used to...
Retrieved 25 February 2024. Taparhudee, Wara (2002). "Applications of PaddleWheel Aerators and Diffused-Air System in Closed Cycle Shrimp Farm System"...
so of the wheel travels underwater. Rotation of the paddlewheel produces thrust, forward or backward as required. More advanced paddlewheel designs have...
"voids" give no place for mud to stick. They work something like a paddlewheel on a paddle-steamer. Street legal mud tires are a compromise between large...
The rotary steam engine simplified the mechanism required to turn a paddlewheel to propel a boat. Despite the improved efficiency and rotary motion,...
Paddlewheel flowmeters consist of three primary components: the paddlewheel sensor, the pipe fitting and the display/controller. The paddlewheel sensor...
Autumn Leaves (PaddleWheel, 1985) Live at Pit Inn (PaddleWheel, 1986) The Sidewinder (PaddleWheel, 1986) My Funny Valentine (PaddleWheel, 1986) Live...
or paddle boat (U.S., Canadian, and Australian English) is a human-powered watercraft propelled by the action of pedals turning a paddlewheel. A pedalo...
the successful paddlewheel warship design of Li Gao. In 1134, the Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, Wu Ge, had paddlewheel warships constructed...
stream wheel is a vertically mounted water wheel that is rotated by the water in a water course striking paddles or blades at the bottom of the wheel. This...
SS Great Western was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial...
the laws of thermodynamics. The simple machine, consisting of a tiny paddlewheel and a ratchet, appears to be an example of a Maxwell's demon, able to...
Pacific Ocean. Vanderbilt decided to use paddlewheel steamships from the U.S. to the San Juan River, small paddlewheel steam launches on the San Juan River...
M/V Mississippi is a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) towboat operating on the Mississippi River. It is the largest diesel towboat on the...
type can be further divided, depending on where the water hits the wheelpaddles, into undershot, overshot, breastshot and pitchback (backshot or reverse...
missile firings and when Explorer 6—shaped like a paddlewheel—launched. Since then, the paddlewheel has been used several times, including on January...
propulsion under ideal conditions but otherwise had serious drawbacks. The paddle-wheel performed best when it operated at a certain depth, however when the...
played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken...
man-of-war in Xiamen, along with new paddle-boats and brass guns under construction in Wusong and Shanghai. Paddle-wheel boats were actually developed by...
other means for propulsion Pedalo, or paddle boat, a human-powered watercraft that uses pedals to turn a paddlewheel Human-powered watercraft This disambiguation...
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