The Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division (CTSD), part of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Westinghouse Power Generation group, was originally...
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Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division White-Westinghouse Paramount Global Westinghouse Licensing Corporation...
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Knorr-Bremse Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division, a facility near the Philadelphia Airport later home to an industrial park, “Westinghouse Park”...
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The Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division (AGT) was established by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945 to continue the development and production...
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The Westinghouse J46 is an afterburning turbojet engine developed by the Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division for the United States Navy in the...
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Power station (section Once-through cooling systems)
flowing gases (air and combustion products) to directly operate the turbine. Natural-gas fuelled (and oil fueled) combustion turbine plants can start rapidly...
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axial-flow compressor, with six straight-through combustion chambers (made from sheet steel), and a one-stage turbine with hollow blades. On July 18, one of the...
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Boiling water reactor (section Steam turbines)
design families represented among the current PWR fleet (Combustion Engineering, Westinghouse, and Babcock & Wilcox), and within these families, there...
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and their steam turbine-electric locomotives, which proved to be money pits unsuited for their intended service. In July 1948 Westinghouse Electric, which...
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HiTAC), and high-intensity distributed combustion, green combustion turbine, micro-combustion, and air pollution. He is an Distinguished University Professor...
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Pennsylvania Railroad class S2 (category Steam turbine locomotives)
S2 class was a steam turbine locomotive designed and built in a collaborative effort by Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing...
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ABB (section Former divisions)
including Westinghouse Electric's transmission and distribution assets, and announced an agreement to purchase the Stamford, Connecticut-based Combustion Engineering...
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Hybrid-propellant rocket (section Combustion)
developed by Chemical Systems Division and Teledyne Aircraft. Development for this program ended in the mid-1980s. Chemical Systems Division also worked on a...
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Avio (category Gas turbine manufacturers)
period. The development of a gas turbine was started up through a collaboration agreement stipulated with Westinghouse in 1954. Avio's experience in this...
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53 steam turbines and reduction gears for the more modern Victory ships. In 1947, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works was sold to the Westinghouse Corporation...
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related, an additional Plant Investment Protection power bus using a combustion gas turbine is located on-site to generate electricity to provide defense-in-depth...
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hollow turbine blades and sheet metal work on jets could be done by tooling used in making automobile body panels. The lifetime of the combustion chambers...
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nozzles design of small steam turbines. 1897: Harold Medway Martin Patent No. 6088 combustion chamber powering a turbine. 1900: Sanford Alexander Moss...
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per day is biomass waste. In January 2013, Alter NRG commissioned a Westinghouse plasma gasification unit at a demonstration facility in Wuhan, China...
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Diesel locomotive (section Propulsion system operation)
twentieth century with internal combustion engined railcars, due, in part, to difficulties with mechanical drive systems. General Electric (GE) entered...
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licensed to make small appliances, such as vacuum cleaners under the Westinghouse name, from 2002 to 2008. On August 6, 2007, Salton was suspended from...
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General Electric and Westinghouse. As early as the 1920s AC was manufacturing multi MVA hydro-electric generators and turbines, many of which remain...
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Robot (section Remote-controlled systems)
Developmental Systems. 13 (4): 791–805. arXiv:2001.11684. doi:10.1109/TCDS.2020.2993855. ISSN 2379-8939. S2CID 211004032. "Contact Systems Pick and Place...
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Rail transport (redirect from Railway system)
right-of-way and sometimes sections underground. Monorail systems are elevated, medium-capacity systems. A people mover is a driverless, grade-separated train...
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stands for S = Submarine Platform, 5 = Fifth Generation Core and W = Westinghouse as the contracted designer. The S5W is a high speed submarine reactor...
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Harrison (b. 1856). The gas turbine: progress in the design and construction of turbines operated by gases of combustion, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott...
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List of aircraft engines (section Westinghouse)
Westinghouse J30 Westinghouse J32 Westinghouse J34 Westinghouse J40 Westinghouse J43 Westinghouse J45 Westinghouse J46 Westinghouse J50 Westinghouse J54...
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Steam locomotive (section Steam turbines)
Variations in this general design include electrically powered boilers, turbines in place of pistons, and using steam generated externally. Steam locomotives...
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operate smoothly at extremely high speeds on rough interurban tracks. Westinghouse and General Electric designed motors compact enough to be mounted on...
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decelerate. At high altitude and low turbine speed the compressor did not provide enough pressure to hold back the combustion pressure and would result in a...
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