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Pump manufactures normally do not provide performance curves of their pumps working as turbines, especially performance curves of trimmed impellers. Impeller trimming is necessary to adapt to a certain operating condition. Therefore, establishing the correlation of PAT’s performance curve and impeller trims is essential. In this paper, a laboratory model of a pump as turbine (PAT) open test rig was...