tandem-compound steam turbine

  • 1tandem compound — noun : a tandem compound steam engine or turbine …

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  • 2Steam turbine — A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons… …

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  • 3Steam engine — A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. [ [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/564472/steam engine steam engine Britannica Online Encyclopedia ] ] Steam engines have a long history,… …

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  • 4Compound engine — For compound steam locomotives, see Compound locomotive. Cutaway of triple expansion compound steam engine, 1888 …

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  • 5turbine — /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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  • 6Compound turbine — A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high pressure casing and a low pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam. The steam is partially expanded in the high pressure… …

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  • 7Corliss steam engine — A Corliss steam engine – the valve gear is on the right of the cylinder block, on the left of the picture A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849 …

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  • 8Stationary steam engine — A stationary steam engine, preserved at Tower Bridge in London. This is one of two tandem cross compound hydraulic pumping engines formerly used to raise and lower the bridge. Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or… …

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  • 9одновальная (двухвальная) паровая стационарная турбина — одновальная (двухвальная) турбина Паровая стационарная турбина с одним валопроводом (двумя независимыми валопроводами). [ГОСТ 23269 78] Тематики газовые и паровые турбины и двигатели Синонимы одновальная (двухвальная) турбина EN cross compound… …

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  • 10четырёхпоточная одновальная многоцилиндровая паровая турбина — — [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.] Тематики энергетика в целом EN four flow tandem compound steam turbine …

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