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Steam locomotive components. Main components found on a typical steam locomotive include: The main components of a typical steam locomotive. Click or hover over numbers to see names. ( enlarge) The diagram, which is not to scale, is a composite of various designs in the late steam era. Some components shown are not the same as, or are not ...
1884 (140 years ago) ( 1884) A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. [ 1][ 2] Fabrication of a modern steam turbine involves advanced metalwork to form high-grade steel alloys ...
The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse -type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. [ 1][ 2] The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel. Many earlier variations of impulse turbines existed, but ...
Aeolipile. An aeolipile, aeolipyle, or eolipile, from the Greek "Αἰόλου πύλη", 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. Torque is produced by steam jets exiting the turbine. The Greek-Egyptian mathematician and engineer Hero of ...
The Reid-Ramsey turbine, built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1910, had a 2-B+B-2 (4-4-0+0-4-4) wheel arrangement. Steam was generated in a standard locomotive boiler, with superheater, and passed to a turbine generator. Exhaust steam was condensed and recirculated by small auxiliary turbine pumps. [9]
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. [ note 1] Large steam-powered turbo generators provide the majority of the world's electricity and are also used by steam-powered turbo-electric ships. [ 1]
Turbine. A steam turbine with the case opened. A turbine ( / ˈtɜːrbaɪn / or / ˈtɜːrbɪn /) (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) [ 1][ 2] is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced can be used for generating electrical power when ...
Boiler (power generation) An industrial boiler, originally used for supplying steam to a stationary steam engine. A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water. Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be said that older steam generators were commonly termed boilers and worked at low ...