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Steam's starting pressure and temperature is the same for both the actual and the ideal turbines, but at turbine exit, steam's energy content ('specific enthalpy') for the actual turbine is greater than that for the ideal turbine because of irreversibility in the actual turbine.
Steam turbine technology (2 P) V. Steam turbine-powered vehicles (1 C) Pages in category "Steam turbines" ... This page was last edited on 6 February 2020, ...
Almost all electric power generation, from the time of the Fisk Station to the present [citation needed], is based on steam driven turbine-generators. 1913 (): Nikola Tesla patents a bladeless steam turbine that utilizes the boundary layer effect. This design has never been used commercially due to its low efficiency. [22]
[1] [2] However, Vitruvius was the first to describe this appliance in his De architectura (c. 30-20 BC). [3] The aeolipile is considered to be the first recorded steam engine or reaction steam turbine, but it is neither a practical source of power nor a direct predecessor of the type of steam engine invented during the Industrial Revolution. [4]
The Ljungström turbine (Ljungströmturbinen) is a steam turbine. It is also known as the STAL turbine, from the company name STAL ( Swedish : Svenska Turbinfabriks Aktiebolaget Ljungström ). The technology has had numerous uses since its conception, from power plants to vehicles as large as the supertanker Seawise Giant .
Waterside was originally intended to house a total of sixteen reciprocating steam engines, but as the plant was designed significant advances were being made in the development of steam turbines so that only eleven reciprocating steam engines were installed and the remainder of the space was used for the installation of five steam turbines. [6]
The first Hungarian water turbine was designed by the engineers of the Ganz Works in 1866; industrial-scale production with dynamo generators started only in 1883. [2] Engineer Charles Algernon Parsons demonstrated a DC steam-powered turbo generator using a dynamo in 1887, [ 3 ] and by 1901 had supplied the first large industrial AC turbo ...
A compounded steam turbine has multiple stages with more than one set of nozzles and rotors. These are arranged in series, either keyed to the common shaft or fixed to the casing. The result of this arrangement allows either the steam pressure or the jet velocity to be absorbed by the turbine in a number of stages. [1] [2] Compounded steam ...