In steam turbine design, compounding is a method of extracting steam energy in multiple stages rather than a single one. Each stage of a compounded steam...

Bousquet André Chapelon Compound turbine Compounding of steam turbines Pressure compounding in turbines The Evolution of Compound Locomotives http://mikes...

nozzle. This method of compounding is used in Rateau and Zoelly turbines. The arrangement consists of a number of simple impulse turbines in series mounted...

efficiency of steam turbines remains central to the energy economics of the 21st century. The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its...

service, (pioneered on the Turbinia), steam turbines with reduction gearing (although the Turbinia has direct turbines to propellers with no reduction gearbox)...

A steam turbine locomotive was a steam locomotive which transmitted steam power to the wheels via a steam turbine. Numerous attempts at this type of locomotive...

A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages. A typical arrangement for a compound engine is that...

such as micro turbines and also have strong potential for use in small gas turbines/auxiliary power units A major challenge facing turbine design, especially...

to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its gaseous to...

working fluid and, for water turbines, maintains the suction imparted by the draft tube. Francis turbines and most steam turbines use this concept. For compressible...

Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were later experimented with or proposed, such as Taqi al-Din's steam jack, a steam turbine in 16th-century Ottoman...

before exhaust Turbo-compound engine, an internal combustion engine where exhaust gases expand through power-turbines Compounding pressure, a method in...

The majority of the world's thermal power stations are driven by steam turbines, gas turbines, or a combination of the two. The efficiency of a thermal power...

design. Steam turbines were created as an attempt to improve the operation and efficiency of steam locomotives. Experiments with steam turbines using direct-drive...

turbomachinery, an axial turbine is a turbine in which the flow of the working fluid is parallel to the shaft, as opposed to radial turbines, where the fluid...

of thermal engines- Internal combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam...

steam plant has a fixed upper efficiency of 35–42%. An open circuit gas turbine cycle has a compressor, a combustor and a turbine. For gas turbines the...

consists of two steam turbines, which began commercial operation in 1967 and 1968, and four cooling towers. The main turbines run on steam produced by...

not need to import steam to drive its steam turbines. A typical world scale ethylene plant (about 1.5 billion pounds (680 KTA) of ethylene per year) uses...

century by steam turbines and marine diesel engines. The first commercially successful steam engine was developed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The steam engine...

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition...

(1812) McNaught'ed compound beam engines (1845) Corliss engine(1859) Porter-Allen engine (1862) Uniflow engine Todd's (1885) Steam turbine (1889) Boilers...

by British engineer Charles Parsons of his steam turbine-driven yacht, Turbinia, in 1897, the use of steam turbines for propulsion quickly spread. The...

ships, turbines were bladed wheels that created rotary motion when high pressure steam was passed through them. The efficiency of large steam turbines was...

Parsons developed the steam turbine, used in early electrical generation and to power ships. The efficiency of large steam turbines is considerably better...

introduced during the 1820s as alternate steam engine designs, prior to the widespread introduction of the steam turbine. In these examples the "piston" is...

A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines...

power by the means of a steam turbine. It is similar to the Rankine cycle using water as the motive fluid but with the novelty of introducing salts and...

efficiency. Steam turbines were powered by boilers burning, initially, coal, then fuel oil. Some steam turbine systems use nuclear power for their steam generation...

engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy. Gustaf de Laval was...