power turbine


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power turbine

An arrangement in which the turbine is not connected to the compressor. Also known as a free power turbine
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The power turbine operates at a temperature of over 2000 degrees Centigrade and each blade is subjected to several tons of centrifugal force.
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The compressor operating points are determined based on the available power adjusted by the effect of off-optimum power turbine speed, the suction and discharge pressure (the isentropic head) imposed by the pipeline condition.
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Power turbine is mounted downstream charging turbine to recover waste heat from the exhaust.
Disturbance estimation based modeling technique for control and prediction in controllable mechanical turbo-compounding system
For the smaller horsepower PT-6s, the power turbine, or PT, is a single wheel connected to a complex, two-stage planetary gear reduction section which, again, carries its own overhaul and inspection requirements that aren't the same as the engine itself or that of other components.
PT-6 overhauls: complex and expensive
A materials scientist with 50 years experience in composites, Golfman is concerned here not just with the material of wind power turbine blades, but the design, manufacture, testing, and operation.
Hybrid anisotropic materials for wind power turbine blades
United States-based General Electric (NYSE: GE) has received its first wind power turbine contract in Vietnam.
-General Electric receives first wind power turbine contract in Vietnam
A wind power company is using the model of a sycamore seed to design a huge wind power turbine intended to generate 10 megawatts of energy.
United Kingdom : Wind Power Designed from Sycamore Tree Seed
NORTHERN Ireland's world-first tidal power turbine has been damaged, it emerged yesterday.
Delay as SeaGen is damaged; POWER
The offsets come from purchasing and holding a number of emission reduction credits, managed through what the company described as a "specialist carbon asset broker." The credits come from two renewable energy projects in India: a wind power turbine project in Gujarat, and a biomass power generation plant that produces power by using the methane created as a byproduct of sugar production.
Reinsurer Glacier Re claims carbon-neutral status
Jim Douglas, center, and Dave Halquist, president of Vermont Electric Cooperative, in announcing the upcoming installation of a power turbine in Beeches Falls, Vt., that will reduce energy costs for the Ethan Allen plant there by 20 percent.
Roy Duddy, director of the New Hampshire Business Resource Center, joins Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, center, and Dave Halquist, president of Vermont Electric Cooperative, in announcing the upcoming installation of a power turbine in Beeches Falls, Vt., that will reduce energy costs for the Ethan Allen plant there by 20 percent
You know there's a problem because as soon as you crank engine 1 or 2, the power turbine inlet temperature (PTIT) rises and the N1 gauge doesn't increase past 40 percent.
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The general reviews describe composite materials for wind power turbine blades, analytical transmission electron microscopy, ab initio calculation of metallic surface oxidation, and molecular approaches to the adhesion of metal/polymer interfaces.
Annual review of materials research; v.35, 2005

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