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Encyclopedia: Turbine

A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin coined the term from the Latin turbinis, or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they rotate and impart energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and water wheels.

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	(Japanese)	タービン
	(German)	Turbine
	(Spanish)	Turbina
	(French)	Turbine
	(Italian)	Turbina

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Kaplan Turbine

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RAT

Ram air turbine Radio access technology Remote administration tool Remote access terminal Release after transmision (Token ring...

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Fistful of Metal

"Death Rider" (Benante/Lilker/Rosenfeld/Spitz/Turbin) - 3:30 "Metal Thrashing Mad" (Benante/Lilker/Rosenfeld/Spitz/Turbin) - 2:39 "I'm Eighteen" (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 4:02 "Panic" (Lilker/Rosenfeld/Turbin) - 3:58 "Subjugator" (Benante/Lilker/Rosenfeld/Spitz/Turbin) - 4:38 "Soldiers of...

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Steam turbine

A steam turbine extracts the energy of dry pressurized superheated steam as mechanical movement. In a Parsons-Westinghouse steam turbine nozzles apply supersonic steam to a curved blade. The blade... mounted to the case of the turbine. Turbines usually consist of a number of stages, with each stage...

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Gas turbine

The world's first commercial, oil-free gas turbine (manufactured by Capstone). This machine has a single stage radial compressor and turbine, a recouperator, and foil bearings. A gas turbine is... coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between. Gas turbine may also mean just...

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Francis Turbine

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Banki turbine

Banki turbine. Image credit; European Communities, Layman's Guidbook (on how to develop a small hydro site) The Banki turbine (also known as the Michell , Crossflow or Ossberger turbine) is a..., it uses a nozzle and blades instead of buckets. The "middle" of the Banki turbine is left open and...

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Lester Allan Pelton

water turbine. He was born in Vermillion, Ohio in 1850 and immigrated to California during the the gold... accidental observation, some time in the 1870s. Pelton was watching a spinning water turbine when the key.... Surprisingly, the turbine now moved faster. That was Pelton´s great discovery. In other turbines the jet...

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Combined cycle

In a combined cycle power plant, a gas turbine generator is combined with a steam turbine power... low as possible. For gas turbine generators, the input temperature to the gas turbine is relatively... (some 450°C to 650°C). For steam turbine power plants, the output temperature of the cooling water...

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Tesla turbine

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless turbine design patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it utilizes the boundary layer effect and not by a fluid impacting the blades in a conventional turbine. Pump If a similar set of disks and a housing with an involute...

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