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  • 11Turbine Banki — Turbine Banki. Image credit; European Communities, Layman s Guidebook (on how to develop a small hydro site) La turbine à flux croisé, turbine Banki Mitchell, ou turbine Ossberger, est une turbine hydraulique qui fut développée par l Australien… …

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  • 12Turbine — 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 …

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  • 13turbine 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… …

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  • 14turbine — /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 …

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  • 15Turbine à gaz — Une turbine à gaz (dénomination historique, abrégée en TAC), appelée aussi turbine à combustion (TAC) ou parfois turbine à gaz de combustion (dénomination la plus précise), est une machine tournante thermodynamique appartenant à la famille des… …

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  • 16Turbine — 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,… …

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  • 17Turbine hydraulique — Une turbine hydraulique à la centrale LG 1 du complexe La Grande au Québec. Une turbine hydraulique est une machine tournante qui produit une énergie mécanique à partir d eau en mouvement. Elle constitue le composant essentiel des centrales… …

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  • 18Turbine — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Turbine (homonymie). Schéma de principe d une turbine. Une turbine est un dispositif rotatif destiné à utiliser la force d un …

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  • 19axial-flow — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : having the fluid or gas flowing parallel to the axis axial flow turbine axial flow pump compare radial flow * * * /ak see euhl floh /, adj. having a fluid flow parallel to an axis of rotation, as in a turbine …

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  • 20axial-centrifugal compressor — A combination of centrifugal and axial flow compressors in a gas turbine engine. The axial flow compressor is ahead and serves as a low pressure compressor, while the centrifugal flow compressor is in the rear and functions as a high pressure… …

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