Turbine+wheel
11turbine efficiency — The ratio of actual work performed by the turbine wheel in foot pounds/BTU and the laboratory standard of 778 ft lb of work in 1 BTU (British thermal unit), expressed as a percentage …
12wheel assembly — A unit on a turbocharger consisting of the compressor, shaft, and turbine wheel …
13turbine — UK US /ˈtɜːbaɪn/ noun [C] PRODUCTION ► a type of machine in which a wheel is driven by the movement of liquid or gas so that power is produced: »A one megawatt turbine can produce enough electricity annually to meet the needs of 700 households.… …
14turbine — (n.) 1838, from Fr. turbine, from L. turbinem (nom. turbo) spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, related to turba turmoil, crowd (see TURBID (Cf. turbid)). Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis, driven by falling water. Turbo in… …
15turbine — [tʉr′bin, tʉr′bīn΄] n. [Fr < L turbo, whirl: see TURBINATE] an engine or motor having a drive shaft driven either by the impulse of steam, water, air, gas, etc. against the curved vanes of a wheel (or set of wheels) or by the reaction of fluid …
16turbine — ► NOUN ▪ a machine for producing power in which a wheel or rotor is made to revolve by a fast moving flow of water, steam, gas, or air. ORIGIN Latin turbo spinning top, whirl …
17vortex wheel — Turbine wheel …
18Turbine — A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788 1873) coined the term from the Latin turbo , or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802 1867), a student of Claude Burdin,… …
19de Laval turbine — Turbine Tur bine, n. [L. turbo, inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl.] 1. 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… …
20Turbine hydraulique — Une turbine hydraulique à la centrale LG 1 du complexe La Grande au Québec. Une turbine hydraulique est une machine tournante qui produit une énergie mécanique à partir d eau en mouvement. Elle constitue le composant essentiel des centrales… …
