impulse-type turbine

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• impulse-reaction turbine — A form of turbine in which hot, high velocity gases produce an aerodynamic force as an impulse force as they move the turbine blades in the direction needed to spin the turbine blades. In this type of turbine, there is a stator vane and a rotor… …   Aviation dictionary

• turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …   Universalium

• Turbine — A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788 1873) coined the term from the Latin turbo , or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802 1867), a student of Claude Burdin,… …   Wikipedia

• Steam turbine — A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons… …   Wikipedia

• Turbine — Tur bine, n. [L. turbo, inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl.] 1. A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• turbine wheel — Turbine Tur bine, n. [L. turbo, inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl.] 1. A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Turgo turbine — The Turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. Operational Turgo Turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87%. In factory and lab tests Turgo Turbines perform with efficiencies of up to 90%.Developed in 1919 by …   Wikipedia

• Turbine Pelton — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Pelton (homonymie). Roue Pelton Une turbine Pelton est un type de turbine hydraulique utilisée dans les centrales hydroélectriques. El …   Wikipédia en Français

• Turbine hydraulique — Une turbine hydraulique à la centrale LG 1 du complexe La Grande au Québec. Une turbine hydraulique est une machine tournante qui produit une énergie mécanique à partir d eau en mouvement. Elle constitue le composant essentiel des centrales… …   Wikipédia en Français

• impulse turbine — A type of turbine in which the stator vane and rotor blades are arranged in such a way that the pressure drop occurs in the converging nozzle guide vane passages along with a corresponding increase in velocity while the blades form straight ducts …   Aviation dictionary

• Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… …   Wikipedia