Table of Contents
174 relations: AEG (German company), Aeolipile, Aircraft carrier, Alloy steel, Alstom, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Angular momentum, Ansaldo Energia, Auguste Rateau, Aurel Stodola, Auxiliary ship, École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, Électricité de France, Baker Hughes, Balancing machine, Battle of Jutland, Battlecruiser, Battleship, Bearing (mechanical), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Blue-water navy, Boiler, Boiler feedwater, Boiler feedwater pump, Buckley-class destroyer escort, C. A. Parsons and Company, Centrifugal governor, Centrifugal pump, Charles Algernon Parsons, Combined cycle power plant, Compounding of steam turbines, Concentrated solar power, Control volume, Creep (deformation), Curtiss-Wright, Degree of reaction, Desalination, Destroyer, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Diesel engine, Direct-drive mechanism, Dongfang Electric, Doosan Škoda Power, Droop speed control, Dynamo, Ecuadorian Navy, Egyptian Navy, Electric generator, Electricity generation, Elliott Company, ... Expand index (124 more) »
- 1884 introductions
- History of the steam engine
- Marine steam propulsion
- Steam turbines
AEG (German company)
; AEG) was a German producer of electrical equipment. It was established in 1883 by Emil Rathenau as the Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität in Berlin. The company's initial focus was driven by electrical lighting, as in 1881, Rathenau had acquired the rights to the electric light bulb at the International Exposition of Electricity in Paris.
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Aeolipile
An aeolipile, aeolipyle, or eolipile, from the Greek "Αἰόλουπύλη", also known as a Hero's (or Heron's) engine, is a simple, bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated. Steam turbine and aeolipile are Egyptian inventions and steam engines.
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Alloy steel
Alloy steel is steel that is alloyed with a variety of elements in total amounts between 1.0% and 50% by weight to improve its mechanical properties.
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Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach." ASME is thus an engineering society, a standards organization, a research and development organization, an advocacy organization, a provider of training and education, and a nonprofit organization.
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Angular momentum
Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum.
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Ansaldo Energia
Ansaldo Energia S.p.A. is an Italian power engineering company based in Genoa, Italy.
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Auguste Rateau
Auguste Rateau (13 October 1863 – 13 January 1930) was an engineer and industrialist born in Royan, France, specializing in turbines. Steam turbine and Auguste Rateau are steam turbines.
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Aurel Stodola
Aurel Boleslav Stodola (11 May 1859 – 25 December 1942) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor.
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Auxiliary ship
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations.
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École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne
École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, also called École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (literally meaning "Saint-Étienne school of mines") or simply Mines Saint-Étienne and commonly abbreviated EMSE is a prestigious French graduate engineering school (grandes écoles) training engineers and carrying out industry-oriented research.
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Électricité de France
Électricité de France SA (literally Electricity of France), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France.
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Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes Company is an American energy company based in Houston, Texas.
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Balancing machine
A balancing machine is a measuring tool used for balancing rotating machine parts such as rotors for electric motors, fans, turbines, disc brakes, disc drives, propellers and pumps.
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Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland (Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during World War I. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three main engagements from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula.
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Battlecruiser
The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century.
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Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.
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Bearing (mechanical)
A ball bearing A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.
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Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking and the largest government-owned power generation equipment manufacturer.
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Blue-water navy
A blue-water navy is a maritime force capable of operating globally, essentially across the deep waters of open oceans.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
Boiler feedwater
Boiler feedwater is the water which is supplied to a boiler.
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Boiler feedwater pump
A boiler feedwater pump is a specific type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler.
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Buckley-class destroyer escort
The Buckley-class destroyer escorts were 102 destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943–44.
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C. A. Parsons and Company
C. Steam turbine and C. A. Parsons and Company are steam turbines.
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Centrifugal governor
A centrifugal governor is a specific type of governor with a feedback system that controls the speed of an engine by regulating the flow of fuel or working fluid, so as to maintain a near-constant speed.
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Centrifugal pump
Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow.
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Charles Algernon Parsons
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931) was an English engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the eponym of C. A. Parsons and Company. Steam turbine and Charles Algernon Parsons are steam turbines.
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Combined cycle power plant
A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy.
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Compounding of steam turbines
Compounding of steam turbines is a method of extracting steam energy in multiple stages rather than in a single stage in a steam turbine.
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Concentrated solar power
Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver.
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Control volume
In continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, a control volume (CV) is a mathematical abstraction employed in the process of creating mathematical models of physical processes.
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Creep (deformation)
In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to undergo slow deformation while subject to persistent mechanical stresses.
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Curtiss-Wright
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and outside the United States.
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Degree of reaction
In turbomachinery, degree of reaction or reaction ratio (R) is defined as the ratio of the static pressure rise in the rotating blades of a compressor (or drop in turbine blades) to the static pressure rise in the compressor stage (or drop in a turbine stage). Steam turbine and degree of reaction are steam turbines.
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Desalination
Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.
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Deutsche Reichsbahn
The Deutsche Reichsbahn, also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire.
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Diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).
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Direct-drive mechanism
A direct-drive mechanism is a mechanism design where the force or torque from a prime mover is transmitted directly to the effector device (such as the drive wheels of a vehicle) without involving any intermediate couplings such as a gear train or a belt.
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Dongfang Electric
Dongfang Electric Corporation is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of power generators and the contracts of power station projects.
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Doosan Škoda Power
Doosan Škoda Power is a manufacturer and supplier of equipment for power stations, machine rooms especially equipped for steam turbines.
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Droop speed control
Droop speed control is a control mode used for AC electrical power generators, whereby the power output of a generator reduces as the line frequency increases.
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Dynamo
284110) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator.
Ecuadorian Navy
The Ecuadorian Navy (Armada del Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian entity responsible for the surveillance and protection of national maritime territory and has a personnel of 9,400 men to protect a coastline of 2,237 km which reaches far into the Pacific Ocean.
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Egyptian Navy
The Egyptian Navy, also known as the Egyptian Naval Force, is the maritime branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces.
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Electric generator
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit. Steam turbine and electric generator are 19th-century inventions and English inventions.
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Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Elliott Company
Elliott Company designs, manufactures, installs, and services turbo-machinery for prime movers and rotating machinery.
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Energy economics
Energy economics is a broad scientific subject area which includes topics related to supply and use of energy in societies.
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Energy industry
The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution.
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Energy transformation
Energy transformation, also known as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one form to another.
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Enthalpy
Enthalpy is the sum of a thermodynamic system's internal energy and the product of its pressure and volume.
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ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland.
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Fatigue (material)
In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading.
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Feedwater heater
A feedwater heater is a power plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to a steam generating boiler.
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Ferdinand Verbiest
Ferdinand Verbiest, SJ (9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty.
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First law of thermodynamics
The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the context of thermodynamic processes.
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Fossil fuel power station
A fossil fuel power station is a thermal power station which burns a fossil fuel, such as coal, oil, or natural gas, to produce electricity.
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French Navy
The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.
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Fuelling station
Fuelling stations, also known as coaling stations, are repositories of fuel (initially coal and later oil) that have been located to service commercial and naval vessels.
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Gas turbine
A gas turbine, gas turbine engine, or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine.
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GE Vernova
GE Vernova Inc., formerly GE Power and GE Renewable Energy, is an energy equipment manufacturing and services company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Gear
A gear or gearwheel is a rotating machine part typically used to transmit rotational motion and/or torque by means of a series of teeth that engage with compatible teeth of another gear or other part.
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19.
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Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the Earth's crust.
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Geothermal power
Geothermal power is electrical power generated from geothermal energy.
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Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, (CVN-78), replacing, and later the carriers.
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Giovanni Branca
Giovanni Branca (22 April 1571 – 24 January 1645) was an Italian engineer and architect, chiefly remembered today for what some commentators have taken to be an early steam turbine.
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Grain boundary strengthening
In materials science, grain-boundary strengthening (or Hall–Petch strengthening) is a method of strengthening materials by changing their average crystallite (grain) size.
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Gustaf de Laval
Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (9 May 1845 – 2 February 1913) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
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Hammer blow
In rail terminology, hammer blow or dynamic augment is a vertical force which alternately adds to and subtracts from the locomotive's weight on a wheel.
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Harbin Electric
Harbin Electric Company Limited, formerly Harbin Power Equipment Company Limited, is a Chinese enterprise engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and construction of power plant equipment.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Heat engine
A heat engine is a system that converts heat to usable energy, particularly mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work.
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Hero of Alexandria
Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς,, also known as Heron of Alexandria; probably 1st or 2nd century AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria in Egypt during the Roman era.
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Icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.
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IHI Corporation
, formerly known as is a Japanese engineering corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that produces and offers ships, space launch vehicles, aircraft engines, marine diesel engines, gas turbines, gas engines, railway systems, turbochargers for automobiles, plant engineering, industrial machinery, power station boilers and other facilities, suspension bridges and other structures.
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Indian Navy
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Isentropic process
An isentropic process is an idealized thermodynamic process that is both adiabatic and reversible.
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Italian Navy
The Italian Navy (Military Navy; abbreviated as MM) is one of the four branches of Italian Armed Forces and was formed in 1946 from what remained of the Regia Marina (Royal Navy) after World War II.
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Jacking gear
A jacking gear (also known as a turning gear) is a device placed on the main shaft of an engine or the rotor of a turbine. Steam turbine and jacking gear are steam turbines.
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James Watt
James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
John Brown & Company
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
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John Wilkins
John Wilkins (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society.
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Kaluga Turbine Plant
Kaluga Turbine Plant (Калужский турбинный завод) is a company based in Kaluga, Russia and established in 1946.
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries
is a Japanese public multinational corporation manufacturer of motorcycles, engines, heavy equipment, aerospace and defense equipment, rolling stock and ships, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Kirov Plant
The Kirov Plant, Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ) (Kirovskiy zavod) is a major Russian mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Krupp
Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp (formerly Friedrich Krupp GmbH), trading as Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century as well as Germany's premier weapons manufacturer during both world wars.
Larsen & Toubro
Larsen & Toubro Limited, abbreviated as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate, with interests in industrial technology, heavy industry, engineering, construction, manufacturing, power, information technology, military and financial services.
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Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod
Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (Ленинградский Металлический Завод), also known as LMZ, is the largest Russian manufacturer of power machines and turbines for electric power stations.
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Leonardo DRS
Leonardo DRS, formerly DRS Technologies, Inc., is a US-based defense contractor.
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LNG carrier
An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Machine
A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.
MAPNA Group
MAPNA Group (گروه مپنا) is a group of Iranian companies involved in development and execution of thermal and renewable power plants, oil & gas, railway transportation and other industrial projects as well as manufacturing main equipment including gas and steam turbines, electrical generator, turbine blade and vane, HRSG and conventional boilers, electric and control systems, gas compressor, locomotive and other pertinent equipment.
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Marine steam engine
A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. Steam turbine and marine steam engine are marine steam propulsion and steam engines.
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Mercury vapour turbine
A mercury vapour turbine is a form of heat engine that uses mercury as the working fluid of its thermal cycle.
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Metalworking
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals in order to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures.
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Mexican Navy
The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent armed forces of Mexico.
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Microstructure
Microstructure is the very small scale structure of a material, defined as the structure of a prepared surface of material as revealed by an optical microscope above 25× magnification.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy.
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Nozzle
A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (specially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe.
Nuclear marine propulsion
Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor.
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Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.
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Ottoman Egypt
Ottoman Egypt was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517.
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Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Power loss factor
The power loss factor β describes the loss of electrical power in CHP systems with a variable power-to-heat ratio when an increasing heat flow is extracted from the main thermodynamic electricity generating process in order to provide useful heat.
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Power Machines
OJSC Power Machines (translit. Siloviye Mashiny abbreviated as Silmash, ОАО «Силовы́е маши́ны») is a Russian energy systems machine-building company founded in 2000.
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Pressure compounding in turbines
Pressure compounding is the method in which pressure in a steam turbine is made to drop in a number of stages rather than in a single nozzle. Steam turbine and pressure compounding in turbines are steam turbines.
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Product (mathematics)
In mathematics, a product is the result of multiplication, or an expression that identifies objects (numbers or variables) to be multiplied, called factors.
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Rankine cycle
The Rankine cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle describing the process by which certain heat engines, such as steam turbines or reciprocating steam engines, allow mechanical work to be extracted from a fluid as it moves between a heat source and heat sink.
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Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Refractory
In materials science, a refractory (or refractory material) is a material that is resistant to decomposition by heat or chemical attack that retains its strength and rigidity at high temperatures.
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Republic of China Navy
The Republic of China Navy (ROCN; historically as the Chinese Navy or ROC Navy, colloquially the Taiwanese Navy) is the maritime branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces (ROCAF).
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Rhenium
Rhenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Re and atomic number 75.
Roasting jack
A roasting jack is a machine which rotates meat roasting on a spit. Steam turbine and roasting jack are Arab inventions.
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Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641.
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Rotating unbalance
Rotating unbalance is the uneven distribution of mass around an axis of rotation.
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Rotation
Rotation or rotational motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as axis of rotation.
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Rotisserie
Rotisserie, also known as spit-roasting, is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit – a long, solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a campfire, or roasted in an oven.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Ruthenium
Ruthenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ru and atomic number 44.
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Sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
Shanghai Electric
Shanghai Electric (officially Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited) is a Chinese multinational power generation and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Shanghai.
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Siemens
Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate.
Solar thermal energy
Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy for use in industry, and in the residential and commercial sectors.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Stator
The stator is the stationary part of a rotary system, found in electric generators, electric motors, sirens, mud motors, or biological rotors (such as bacterial flagella or ATP synthase).
Steam
Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Steam turbine and steam engine are English inventions and steam engines.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.
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Steam turbine governing
Steam turbine governing is the procedure of controlling the flow rate of steam to a steam turbine so as to maintain its speed of rotation as constant. Steam turbine and steam turbine governing are steam turbines.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels. Steam turbine and steamship are steam engines.
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Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. Steam turbine and submarine are English inventions.
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Superalloy
A superalloy, or high-performance alloy, is an alloy with the ability to operate at a high fraction of its melting point.
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Superheated steam
Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its vaporization point at the absolute pressure where the temperature is measured.
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Superheater
A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam.
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Surface condenser
A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations.
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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Takiyüddin‎ 1526–1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Istanbul.
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Tesla turbine
Tesla turbine at Nikola Tesla Museum The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913.
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Thermal efficiency
In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency (\eta_) is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal energy, such as an internal combustion engine, steam turbine, steam engine, boiler, furnace, refrigerator, ACs etc.
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Thermal energy
The term "thermal energy" is used loosely in various contexts in physics and engineering, generally related to the kinetic energy of vibrating and colliding atoms in a substance.
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Thermal power station
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy.
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Thermal shock
Thermal shock is a phenomenon characterized by a rapid change in temperature that results in a transient mechanical load on an object.
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Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.
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Throttle
A throttle is a mechanism by which fluid flow is managed by constriction or obstruction.
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Thrust bearing
A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing.
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Toshiba
is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Triveni Engineering & Industries
Triveni Engineering & Industries Limited (TEIL) is an Indian conglomerate with diversified businesses in sugar and engineering, headquartered in Noida, India.
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Turbine
A turbine (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.
Turbine–electric powertrain
A turbine–electric transmission system includes a turboshaft gas turbine connected to an electrical generator, creating electricity that powers electric traction motors.
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Turbinia
Turbinia was the first steam turbine-powered steamship.
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Turbo generator
A turbo generator is an electric generator connected to the shaft of a water turbine or steam turbine or gas turbine for the generation of electric power.
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Turboatom
Ukrainian Energy Machines Joint Stock Company "Turboatom", commonly known as just Turboatom (Турбоатом), is a state enterprise responsible for power engineering in Ukraine.
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Type 051B destroyer
The Type 051B destroyer (NATO reporting name: Luhai class) is a class of destroyer built by the People's Republic of China.
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University of Aleppo
University of Aleppo (Jāmiʿat Ḥalab, also called Aleppo University) is a public university located in Aleppo, Syria.
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University of Queensland
The University of Queensland (UQ or Queensland University) is a public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland.
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Ural Turbine Works
The Ural Turbine Works is a power machine building plant that designs, manufactures, and maintains steam turbines of varying capacity.
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Vapor quality
In thermodynamics, vapor quality is the mass fraction in a saturated mixture that is vapor; in other words, saturated vapor has a "quality" of 100%, and saturated liquid has a "quality" of 0%.
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Velocity triangle
In turbomachinery, a velocity triangle or a velocity diagram is a triangle representing the various components of velocities of the working fluid in a turbomachine.
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Vibration
Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point.
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Washington Naval Treaty
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was a treaty signed during 1922 among the major Allies of World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.
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Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
The Wasp-class is a class of landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy.
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WEG Industries
WEG S.A. is a Brazilian company operating worldwide in the electric engineering, power and automation technology areas, headquartered in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil.
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Work (physics)
In science, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zirconium dioxide
Zirconium dioxide, sometimes known as zirconia (not to be confused with zircon), is a white crystalline oxide of zirconium.
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See also
1884 introductions
- Ariana (beer)
- Buffalo Bill Gun
- Cash register
- Durif
- Flag of the Nieuwe Republiek
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Kinetite
- M104 (New York City bus)
- Mitsuya Cider
- Paternoster lift
- Ramune
- Ski-U-Mah (slogan)
- Steam turbine
- Sunlight (cleaning product)
- Teacher's Highland Cream
History of the steam engine
- Advanced steam technology
- Beam engine
- Boulton and Watt
- Compound steam engine
- Corliss steam engine
- Cornish engine
- Cornish engine valve gear
- Elsecar Heritage Centre
- Fairbottom Bobs
- Fenton, Murray and Jackson
- Fredrik Ljungström
- History of the steam engine
- Lap Engine
- McAndrew's Hymn
- Newcomen Memorial Engine
- Newcomen atmospheric engine
- Old Bess (beam engine)
- Resolution (beam engine)
- Smethwick Engine
- Steam turbine
- Thomas Savery
- Uniflow steam engine
- Watt steam engine
- Whitbread Engine
- Zadoc Dederick
Marine steam propulsion
- Chaplin's patent distilling apparatus
- Deaerating feed tank
- Evaporator (marine)
- Marine steam engine
- Marine steam engines
- Paddle steamer
- Screw steamer
- Steam generator (auxiliary boiler)
- Steam generator (boiler)
- Steam turbine
Steam turbines
- Auguste Rateau
- Birger Ljungström
- C. A. Parsons and Company
- Charles Algernon Parsons
- Compound turbine
- Degree of reaction
- Fredrik Ljungström
- Guardian valve
- Jacking gear
- Ljungström turbine
- Losses in steam turbines
- Pressure compounding in turbines
- Steam turbine
- Steam turbine governing
- Steam turbine locomotive
References
Also known as Curtis steam turbine, Curtis turbine, Direct drive turbine, Geared turbine, Impulse steam turbine, Parsons geared turbine, Parsons steam turbine, Parsons turbine, Reheat turbine, Steam turbine engines, Steam turbines, Turbine Steam Ship.