Turbine+wheel
81Reversible turbine — A hydraulic turbine, normally installed in a pumped storage plant, which can be used alternatively as a pump or as an engine, turbine, water wheel, or other apparatus that drives an electrical generator. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy… …
82Water Turbine — A turbine that uses water pressure to rotate its blades; the primary types are the Pelton wheel, for high heads (pressure); the Francis turbine, for low to medium heads; and the Kaplan for a wide range of heads. Primarily used to power an… …
83Water turbine — A turbine that uses water pressure to rotate its blades; the primary types are the Pelton wheel, for high heads (pressure); the Francis turbine, for low to medium heads; and the Kaplan for a wide range of heads. Primarily used to power an… …
84gas turbine — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms gas turbine : singular gas turbine plural gas turbines a type of engine in which hot gas produced by burning fuel turns a wheel …
85impulse turbine — n. a kind of turbine having rotor blades so shaped that the force of jets of fluid striking against the blades moves the wheel, without pressure drop occurring across the blades …
86Pel|ton wheel — «PEHL tuhn», a form of water wheel or turbine having cup shaped buckets arranged around its circumference, which are struck at a tangent by one or more jets of water moving at a high velocity. ╂[< Lester A. Pelton, an American engineer of the… …
87gas turbine — noun count a type of engine in which hot gas produced by burning fuel turns a wheel …
88Vortex wheel — Vortex Vor tex, n.; pl. E. {Vortexes}, L. {Vortices}. [L. vortex, vertex, icis, fr. vortere, vertere, to turn. See {Vertex}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity …
89driving wheel — noun On a steam locomotive, a powered wheel driven by the locomotives pistons or turbine. Syn: driving axle …
90Pelton wheel — /pel tn/ a high pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor. [1880 85; named after L. A. Pelton (d. 1908), U.S. engineer, its inventor] * * * …
