A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern...
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Steam turbine governing is the procedure of controlling the flow rate of steam to a steam turbine so as to maintain its speed of rotation as constant...
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"steam engine" is most commonly applied to reciprocating engines as just described, although some authorities have also referred to the steam turbine and...
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invention of the steam turbine is given both to Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854–1931) for invention of the reaction turbine, and to Swedish...
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Because they are heat engines, steam turbines are subject to inefficiencies as they convert thermal energy in high-pressure steam to rotational kinetic energy...
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steam turbines is a method of extracting steam energy in multiple stages rather than in a single stage in a steam turbine. A compounded steam turbine...
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A steam turbine locomotive was a steam locomotive which transmitted steam power to the wheels via a steam turbine. Numerous attempts at this type of locomotive...
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Thermal power station (redirect from Steam Electric Power Plant)
In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a steam turbine connected...
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Combined cycle power plant (redirect from Combined cycle gas turbine)
which is a gas turbine cycle and the other is the Rankine cycle which is a steam turbine cycle. The cycle 1-2-3-4-1 which is the gas turbine power plant...
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Surface condenser (redirect from Condenser-steam turbine)
to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its gaseous to...
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Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England. Charles Algernon Parsons...
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work by steam engines such as reciprocating piston type engines and steam turbines, which are a sub-group of steam engines. Piston type steam engines...
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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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Rankine cycle (redirect from Steam cycle)
describing the process by which certain heat engines, such as steam turbines or reciprocating steam engines, allow mechanical work to be extracted from a fluid...
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Engine efficiency (section Steam turbine)
combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam turbine, and the Stirling cycle engine)...
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Steamboat (redirect from Steam boat)
Waverley steaming down the Firth of Clyde. Turbine steamer TS Queen Mary. SS Shieldhall steams down the Firth of Clyde. Sky Wonder last steam-powered cruise...
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A gas turbine, gas turbine engine, or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine....
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Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were later experimented with or proposed, such as Taqi al-Din's steam jack, a steam turbine in 16th-century Ottoman...
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recovery steam generator (HRSG) is an energy recovery heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as a combustion turbine or other waste...
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Nuclear power plant (redirect from Steam generating station)
typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. As of...
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traditional bladed turbine. Tesla wrote: This turbine is an efficient self-starting prime mover which may be operated as a steam or mixed fluid turbine at will,...
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into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser....
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of damage to steam turbine blades, the reason why such turbines rely on a supply of dry, superheated steam. Dry steam is saturated steam that has been...
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its efforts to develop steam turbine power, producing the S2 direct-drive turbine locomotive in 1944. Baldwin's steam turbine program failed to produce...
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Aeolipile (redirect from Steam ball)
bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated. Torque is produced by steam jets exiting the turbine. The Greek-Egyptian...
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described the Architonnerre, a steam-powered cannon. 1551 (1551): Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf describes a steam turbine-like device for rotating a spit...
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conveniently moved from distant waterfalls to city markets. The advent of the steam turbine in central station service, around 1906, allowed great expansion of...
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connected to the shaft of a water turbine or steam turbine or gas turbine for the generation of electric power. Large steam-powered turbo generators provide...
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Charles Algernon Parsons (category Steam turbines)
invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the eponym of C. A. Parsons and Company. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation...
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Steamship (redirect from Steam ships)
by steam turbines. After the demonstration by British engineer Charles Parsons of his steam turbine-driven yacht, Turbinia, in 1897, the use of steam turbines...
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