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    A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the...
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    A gas turbine locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a gas turbine. Several types of gas turbine locomotive have been developed...
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    Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Located in Bengaluru, its primary...
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    electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant, which is a kind of gas-fired power plant. The same principle is also used...
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    the rotor. Gas, steam, and water turbines have a casing around the blades that contains and controls the working fluid. The word "turbine" was coined...
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    rotates a turbine rotor. Each turbine disc has many blades. As such they are used in gas turbine engines and steam turbines. The blades are responsible...
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    efficiency. In a simple cycle gas-turbine, also known as open-cycle gas-turbine (OCGT) generators, hot gas drives a gas turbine to generate electricity. This...
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    gas turbine engine compressors provide the compression part of the gas turbine engine thermodynamic cycle. There are three basic categories of gas turbine...
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    may be used to cool the turbine blades, vanes and discs to allow higher turbine entry gas temperatures for the same turbine material temperatures.**...
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    A steam turbine or steam turbine engine is a machine or heat engine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work...
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  • Thumbnail for Union Pacific GTELs
    The Union Pacific GTELs were a series of gas turbine–electric locomotives built by Alco-GE and General Electric from 1952 to 1961 and operated by Union...
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    The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It functions as nozzles apply a moving fluid to the edges...
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    A closed-cycle gas turbine is a turbine that uses a gas (e.g. air, nitrogen, helium, argon, etc.) for the working fluid as part of a closed thermodynamic...
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    The General Electric LM2500 is an industrial and marine gas turbine produced by GE Aviation. The LM2500 is a derivative of the General Electric CF6 aircraft...
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    The Neuchâtel gas turbine is the world's first electric power-generating gas turbine to go into commercial operation. It was designed and constructed by...
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    The Holzwarth gas turbine is a form of explosion, or constant volume, gas turbine where an air–fuel mixture is admitted, ignited and then exhausted from...
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    The most common current application is in airbreathing jet engines and gas turbine engines. The engine cycle is named after George Brayton (1830–1892),...
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    of gas turbine research" (although General Motors and Rover also built operational turbine cars after World War II). After improving their turbine design...
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  • & Sword Aviation 2012, ISBN 978 1 84884 284 7, p.301, Gas Flow Diagram The Aircraft Gas Turbine and its operation December 1982, P&W Oper. Instr. 200...
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  • stopped. Gas turbine-mechanical locomotives use a mechanical transmission to deliver the power output of gas turbines to the wheels. A gas turbine locomotive...
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    crankshaft but is instead extracted through either exhaust gas pressure driving a turbine, through driving a linear load such as an air compressor for...
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    force is typically applied to pistons (piston engine), turbine blades (gas turbine), a rotor (Wankel engine), or a nozzle (jet engine). This force moves...
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  • primary fuel for gas turbines in large power plants is natural gas. Commonly referred to as a gas turbine, a modern combustion turbine can operate on a...
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  • An air turbine is a turbine driven by airflow. Various forms include: Wind turbine, a renewable energy source Gas turbine, a type of internal combustion...
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    A radial turbine is a turbine in which the flow of the working fluid is radial to the shaft. The difference between axial and radial turbines consists...
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    exhaust gases, which is extracted by the turbocharger's turbine. The main components of the turbocharger are: Turbine – usually a radial turbine design...
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    A turbine–electric transmission system includes a turboshaft gas turbine connected to an electrical generator, creating electricity that powers electric...
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    majority of the world's thermal power stations are driven by steam turbines, gas turbines, or a combination of the two. The efficiency of a thermal power...
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    or gas (CODOG) systems, which couple the diesels with a simple, fixed ratio gearbox to the shaft, but disengage the diesel engines when the turbine is...
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    Turbofan (category Gas turbines)
    of a gas turbine engine which achieves mechanical energy from combustion, and a ducted fan that uses the mechanical energy from the gas turbine to force...
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