Turbine

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Gas turbine has been removed from its case

A turbine is an engine that turns fluid movement into energy. This energy can be changed to make electricity with a generator. A turbine is a turbomachine with normally 1 moving part called a rotor assembly (a shaft or drum with blades attached) Moving fluid, normally water, moves the blades so that they transfer energy to the rotor. Some early turbine examples include windmills and waterwheels.

A casing can be placed around the turbine to control the movement of the fluid. Credit for the invention of the steam turbine is given both to Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854 - 1931) for invention of the reaction turbine(turbines that utilize water pressure and water speed to rotate), and to the Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval (1845-1913) for invention of the impulse turbine. Modern steam turbines normally utilize both the reaction and impulse turbine in one system.

Types

• Steam turbine
• Gas turbine
• Transonic turbine
• Jet engine, including
• Turbojet
• Turbofan
• Turboprop
• Turboshaft
• Ceramic turbine
• Contra-rotating turbine
• Statorless turbine
• Shrouded turbine
• Shroudless turbine
• Bladeless turbine
• Water turbine
• Wind turbine
• Impulse turbine
• Velocity compound Curtis

Turbine Media

• Dampfturbine Montage01.jpg

  A steam turbine with the case opened

• WWS Pneumaticlamp.ogg

  Humming of a small pneumatic turbine used in a German 1940s-vintage safety lamp

• Turbines impulse v reaction.svg

  Schematic of impulse and reaction turbines, where the rotor is the rotating part, and the stator is the stationary part of the machine

• Turbine inlet guide vanes of Atar turbojet.jpg

  Turbine inlet guide vanes of a turbojet

• Gfa 17 641006 2-0002 Turbinen.jpg

  Three types of water turbines: Kaplan (in front), Pelton (middle) and Francis (back left)

Other websites

• Turbine introductory math
• Turbines jet powered 1/16 scale Airbus A330