Turbines Turbines The Banki turbine (also known as the Michell, Crossflow or Ossberger turbine) is a hydropower system similar in appearance to an over-shot water wheel. Unlike the water wheel, however, it uses a nozzle and blades instead of buckets. The "middle" of the Banki turbine is left open and the blades that would normally form the walls of the buckets are angled. It is, in effect, a "leaky" water wheel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banki turbine"
A compound turbine is a 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 casing, then exhausted to the low-pressure casing. The rotor arrangement can be either tandem-compound in which the two axels are joined end to end, or cross-compound in which the two turbines have separate axels. In the cross-compound case two separate generators must usually be supplied. ...more on Wikipedia about "Compound turbine"
The Darrieus wind turbine is a type of wind turbine used to generate electricity from the energy carried in the wind. The turbine consists of a number of aerofoils vertically mounted on a rotating shaft or framework. This design of wind turbine was patented by Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, a French aeronautical engineer, in 1927. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darrieus wind turbine"
Friesian Enercon GmbH is a company based in Germany that operates in the wind turbine industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enercon GmbH"
The Francis turbine was developed by James B. Francis. It is an inward flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis turbine"
A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between. (Gas turbine may also refer to just the turbine element.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Gas turbine"
The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine that has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by the Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kaplan turbine"
Metropolitan-Vickers, or Metrovick, was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, they were particularly well known for their industrial electrical equipment and generators, street lighting, electronics, steam turbines and diesel locomotives. Metrovick holds a place in history as the builders of the first commercial transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950, and the first British axial-flow jet engine, the Metrovick F.2. ...more on Wikipedia about "Metropolitan-Vickers"
A Pelton wheel, also called a Pelton turbine, is one of the most efficient types of water turbines. It is an Impulse machine, meaning that is uses Newton's second law to extract energy from a jet of fluid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pelton wheel"
Savonius wind turbines are a type of vertical axis wind turbine, used for converting the power of the wind into torque on a rotating shaft. They were invented by the Finnish engineer S J Savonius in 1922. Savonius turbines are one of the simplest turbines. Aerodynamically, they are drag-type devices, consisting of two or three scoops. Looking down on the rotor from above, a two-scoop machine would look like an "S" shape in cross section. Because of the ...more on Wikipedia about "Savonius wind turbine"
A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Steam turbine"
The Tesla turbine is a bladeless turbine design patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. The Tesla turbine is also known as the boundary layer turbine, cohesion-type turbine, and Prandtl layer turbine (after Ludwig Prandtl). ...more on Wikipedia about "Tesla turbine"
A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin coined the term from the Latin turbinis, or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they rotate and impart energy to the rotor. Some modern turbines are among the most powerful machines ever made. Early turbine examples are windmills and water wheels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turbine"
A turbopump can refer to either of two types of pumps. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turbopump"
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The Turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turgo turbine"
The Tyson Turbine is a hydropower system that extracts power from the flow of water. This design doesn't need a casement, as it is inserted directly into flowing water. It consists of a propeller mounted below a raft, driving a power system, typically a generator, on top of the raft by belt or gear. The turbine is towed into the middle of a river or stream, where the flow is the fastest, and tied off to shore. It requires no local engineering, and can easily be moved to other locations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tyson turbine"
A water turbine is a rotary engine that takes energy from moving water. ...more on Wikipedia about "Water turbine"
A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines all in the same location and used for the generation of electricity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wind farm"
Wind power is the kinetic energy of wind, or the extraction of this energy by wind turbines. In 2004, wind power became the least expensive form of new power generation, dipping below the cost per kilowatt-hour of coal-fired plants ** . Wind power is growing faster than any other form of electrical generation, at about 37% ** , up from 25% growth in 2002. In the late-1990s, the cost of wind power was about five times what it is in 2005, and that downward trend is expected to continue as larger multi-megawatt turbines are mass-produced. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Wind power"
The Wind Power Production Incentive, or WPPI, is a program of the Canadian Government that promotes the generation of electricity from wind power in Canada to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas that would otherwise enter the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. The government pays about half the excess cost of producing electricity from wind, compared to conventional sources, for the first 10 years of a project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wind Power Production Incentive"
A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wind turbine" www.shortopedia.com - forget the rest.
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