electricity generation, a generator, also called an electric generator, electrical generator, and electromagnetic generator is an electromechanical device...

A magneto is an electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce periodic pulses of alternating current. Unlike a dynamo, a magneto does not...

Doubly fed electric machines, Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), or slip-ring generators, are electric motors or electric generators, where both the...

turbine's blades. The rotating turbine is mechanically connected to an electric generator which converts rotary motion into electricity. Fuels such as natural...

field and electric current in a wire winding to generate Laplace force in the form of torque applied on the motor's shaft. An electric generator is mechanically...

A turbo generator is an electric generator connected to the shaft of a turbine (water, steam, or gas) for the generation of electric power. Large steam-powered...

forms from the discovery of the magnetic induction of electric current in the 1830s. Rotating generators naturally produced alternating current, but since...

A diesel generator (DG) (also known as a diesel genset) is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate...

A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an...

homopolar generator is unique in that no other rotary electric machine can produce DC without using rectifiers or commutators. The first homopolar generator was...

A motor–generator (an MG set) is a device for converting electrical power to another form. Motor–generator sets are used to convert frequency, voltage...

non-repeating electronic signals Electric generator, a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. Tidal stream generator, a machine that extracts...

create a heat gradient from an electric current, it is called a thermoelectric (or Peltier) cooler. Thermoelectric generators could be used in power plants...

practical electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices...

200 shp (30,000 kW) or 28.6 MW of electric energy when combined with an electrical generator. Two of such turbo-generators have been installed in the superstructure...

Electric power is usually produced by electric generators, but can also be supplied by sources such as electric batteries. It is usually supplied to businesses...

afterwards, it was out of service. Since 1934, it was used as a stationary electric generator. In 1935, Krauss-Maffei, MAN and Voith built the first diesel–hydraulic...

An engine–generator is the combination of an electrical generator and an engine (prime mover) mounted together to form a single piece of equipment. This...

MHD generator, like a conventional generator, relies on moving a conductor through a magnetic field to generate electric current. The MHD generator uses...

electric train supply (ETS), is the electrical power distribution system on a passenger train. The power source, usually a locomotive (or a generator...

is a moving component of an electromagnetic system in the electric motor, electric generator, or alternator. Its rotation is due to the interaction between...

that uses the principles of induction motors to produce electric power. Induction generators operate by mechanically turning their rotors faster than...

A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG), or radioisotope power system (RPS), is a type of nuclear battery that uses an array of thermocouples...

free-piston linear generator (FPLG) uses chemical energy from fuel to drive magnets through a stator and converts this linear motion into electric energy. Because...

Westinghouse pressurized water reactors (PWR), with a General Electric steam turbine and electric generator. Units 1 and 2 were completed in 1987 and 1989, respectively...

generation is achieved by rotating electric generators or by photovoltaic systems. A small proportion of electric power distributed by utilities is provided...

alternating currents. U.S. patent 428,057 - Pyromagneto Electric Generator - 1890 May 13 - Electric generator; Employment of an artificial cooling device; Enclosing...

typical whole-home generators varies from 7.5 kW to 26 kW. Diesel generator Electric generator Emergency power system Uninterruptible power supply Robert B...

power generated by the turbine is used to drive the compressor and electric generator. The gases are then exhausted from the turbine. In contrast to a turbojet...

A steam–electric power station is a power station in which the electric generator is steam-driven: water is heated, evaporates, and spins a steam turbine...