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turbine

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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 in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

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A $19,875 grant will be used to purchase and install a 15-kW wind turbine. Source: Internet

A bridge built across the turbine hall on level 4 to provides an upper access route. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Additional scenes were shot in the second tank, an unused turbine pit, which held convert of water. Source: Internet

Aeroderivative gas turbines Diagram of a high-pressure film cooled turbine blade Aeroderivatives are also used in electrical power generation due to their ability to be shut down, and handle load changes more quickly than industrial machines. Source: Internet

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