ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TURBINE
From French, from Latin turbō whirlwind, from turbāre to throw into confusion.
3 QUOTES WITH «TURBINE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
turbine.
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURBINE»
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turbine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
turbine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gas
Turbine Engineering Handbook
This new edition brings the Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook right up to date with new legislation and emerging topics to help the next generation of gas turbine professionals understand the underlying principles of gas turbine operation, ...
2
Wind Power Generation and Wind
Turbine Design
The purpose of this book is to provide engineers and researchers in both the wind power industry and energy research community with comprehensive, up-to-date, and advanced design techniques and practical approaches.
3
Gas
Turbine Performance, Second Edition
This book provides a practical guide to the fundamentals of performance, including the requirements of all major applications: power generation, mechanical drive, automotive, marine and aircraft installations.
Philip P Walsh, Paul Fletcher, 2004
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A Practical Guide to Steam
Turbine Technology
The user-oriented handbook focuses on techniques and selection process, as well as analysis problems, prevention, and maintenance and troubleshooting techniques.
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Gas
Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology, Second Edition
The book concludes with discussions of governing equations and turbulence models and their applications for predicting turbine blade heat transfer and film cooling, and turbine blade internal cooling.
Je-Chin Han, Sandip Dutta, Srinath Ekkad, 2012
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GAS
Turbine Combustion, Second Edition
This revised edition provides understanding of the basic physical, chemical, and aerodynamic processes associated with gas turbine combustion and their relevance and application to combustor performance and design.
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Advanced Gas
Turbine Cycles
Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles.
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Innovation in Wind
Turbine Design
Innovation in Wind Turbine Design addresses the fundamentals of design, the reasons behind design choices, and describes the methodology for evaluating innovative systems and components.
9
Turbine Steam Path Maintenance and Repair
This extensive work covers much of the technical material included in Sanders’ seminar, Turbine Steam Path Engineering. This popular seminar has been developed over several years and presented to turbine engineers worldwide.
10
Combined-Cycle Gas & Steam
Turbine Power Plants
This new edition offers a comprehensive overview of the combined-cycle power plant from a thermodynamic, technical, and economic viewpoint.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TURBINE»
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turbine is used in the context of the following news items.
Owl-inspired material to reduce wind turbine noise
Realizing that applying a wedding veil to a turbine or airplane isn't feasible, the team 3D printed a prototype made of plastic and tested it on a full-sized segment ... «Gizmag, Jun 15»
The one wind turbine Tony Abbott has ever seen up close was …
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has admitted that the only wind farm he has got up close to is a single turbine on Rottnest Island that was partly funded by the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
Wind turbines are already huge, but they're about to get way, way …
At the same time, though, it's also greatly limited by a key factor — most of the wind turbines being used in the country today aren't tall enough. If they were ... «Washington Post, May 15»
Suzlon Group to Sell German Wind Turbine Business for $1.2 Billion
LONDON — Suzlon Group, the Indian wind turbine maker, said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its German business to the private equity firm Centerbridge ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
Wind turbine collapses in Northern Ireland
Unconfirmed reports suggested the blades of the turbine had spun out of control - despite only light wind speeds - before the structure came crashing to the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
Wind turbines like 'nightmare neighbours,' court hears
LONDON, Ont. -- Wind turbines are like new neighbours who might drive you to distraction and out of your home because you have no legal way to deal with the ... «CTV News, Nov 14»
Wind turbine noise not linked to health problems, Health Canada finds
However, the louder the wind turbine noise was, the more people reported being very or extremely annoyed, the department reported in a summary released ... «CBC.ca, Nov 14»
Homeowner wins wind turbine legal battle with city of Orono
A Hennepin County judge has ruled state law trumps city ordinance when it comes to an Orono, Minn. homeowner's fight to keep a wind turbine on his property. «FOX 9 News, Oct 14»
Siemens to Invest $264 Million in British Wind Turbine Project
LONDON — Siemens, the German power and industrial giant, said on Tuesday that it would build facilities for offshore wind turbines on the east coast of ... «New York Times, Mar 14»
NSA's TURBINE robot can pump 'malware into MILLIONS of PCs'
The solution was to build TURBINE, which can carry out "automated implants by groups instead of individually," and scale to operate millions of implants at a ... «Register, Mar 14»
