reaction and impulse turbine

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• 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 — 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

• 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

• reaction turbine — noun a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust • Hypernyms: ↑turbine * * * noun : a turbine with rotating blades curved and arranged so as to develop torque from gradual… …   Useful english dictionary

• turbine — noun Etymology: French, from Latin turbin , turbo top, whirlwind, whirl, from turba confusion more at turbid Date: 1842 a rotary engine actuated by the reaction or impulse or both of a current of fluid (as water, steam, or air) subject to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• 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

• de Laval turbine — 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

• 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 —   A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion.   ***   A machine for generating rotary mechanical power from the energy of a stream of fluid (such as water, steam, or hot gas). Turbines… …   Energy terms

• Water turbine — A water turbine is a rotary engine that takes energy from moving water.Water turbines were developed in the nineteenth century and were widely used for industrial power prior to electrical grids. Now they are mostly used for electric power… …   Wikipedia