steam turbine
Noun
Meaning
steam turbine (plural steam turbines)
A system of angled and shaped blades arranged on a rotor through which steam is passed to generate rotational energy. Today, normally used in power stations.
Alternative names
steam-turbine
Examples
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.
A common method of harnessing this thermal energy is to use it to boil water to produce pressurized steam which will then drive a steam turbine that turns an alternator and generates electricity.
After the ship was launched, the QE2 was fitted out with a steam turbine propulsion system utilising three Foster Wheeler E.S.D II boilers, which provided steam for the two Brown-Pametrada turbines.
A limited number of steam turbine railroad locomotives were manufactured.
An exception is LNG carriers which often find it more economical to use boil-off gas with a steam turbine than to re-liquify it.
A rudimentary steam turbine device was described by Taqi al-Din Ahmad Y Hassan (1976).