high-pressure turbine
41Turgo turbine — The Turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. Operational Turgo Turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87%. In factory and lab tests Turgo Turbines perform with efficiencies of up to 90%.Developed in 1919 by …
42Water Turbine — A turbine that uses water pressure to rotate its blades; the primary types are the Pelton wheel, for high heads (pressure); the Francis turbine, for low to medium heads; and the Kaplan for a wide range of heads. Primarily used to power an… …
43Water turbine — A turbine that uses water pressure to rotate its blades; the primary types are the Pelton wheel, for high heads (pressure); the Francis turbine, for low to medium heads; and the Kaplan for a wide range of heads. Primarily used to power an… …
44gas turbine engine — An internal combustion engine where high energy is released from the fuel in a constant pressure cycle. It has a turbine rotated by expanding hot gases. In its usual form, it consists of a rotary air compressor with an air intake, one or more… …
45steam turbine — noun Date: 1860 a turbine that is driven by the pressure of steam discharged at high velocity against the turbine vanes …
46Gluhareff Pressure Jet — The Gluhareff Pressure Jet (or tip jet) is a type of jet engine that, like a Pulse jet, has no moving parts. It was invented by Eugene Gluhareff, a Russian engineer who envisaged it as a power plant for personal helicopters and compact aircraft… …
47HPTB — • High Pressure Turbine …
48Turbofan — [ CFM56 3 turbofan, lower half, side view.] A turbofan is a type of jet engine, similar to a turbojet. It essentially consists of a ducted fan with a smaller diameter turbojet engine mounted behind it that powers the fan. Part of the airstream… …
49CFM International CFM56 — CFM56 …
50Combustor — Flame stabilized by cyclone. A combustor is a component or area of a gas turbine, ramjet, or scramjet engine where combustion takes place. It is also known as a burner, combustion chamber or flame holder. In a gas turbine engine, the combustor or …
