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• high-pressure turbine — The turbine used to drive a high pressure (N2 ) compressor. In a twin spool engine, it is positioned just after the combustion chamber turbine …   Aviation dictionary

• high-pressure compressor — The second stage compressor in a dual spool gas turbine engine. It is called an N2 compressor. A high pressure compressor is the only one rotated by the starting system of an aircraft …   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

• Turbine Hall — The turbine hall or turbine building is a building that is a part of any steam cycle power plant which houses a number of components vital to the generation of electricity from the steam that comes from the boiler. The components in the turbine… …   Wikipedia

• turbine — Turbine: A type of engine in which all the parts that are in regular motion are rotating, making for very smooth operation. The basic gas turbine operates as follows: air enters the compressor and is compressed. It is then delivered to the… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Turbine map — Each turbine in a gas turbine engine has an operating map. Complete maps are either based on turbine rig test results or are predicted by a special computer program. Alternatively, the map of a similar turbine can be suitably scaled. Description… …   Wikipedia

• High-temperature superconductivity — Unsolved problems in physics What causes superconductivity at temperatures above 50 kelvin? High temperature superconductors (abbreviated high Tc or HTS) are materials that have a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) above 30 K… …   Wikipedia

• High-speed Sea Service — The High speed Sea Service, or Stena HSS is the name commonly given to type of high speed craft developed and operated by the Stena Shipping Line. Currently, Stena has four catamaran HSS ferries. The HSS 1500 are the largest fastcraft in the… …   Wikipedia

• gas-turbine engine — Introduction       any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …   Universalium

• 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