gas turbines
Combustion-powered rotating generators
Gas turbines are engines that burn fuel to spin a turbine, converting combustion into rotational energy.
They power jet aircraft, generate electricity, and drive ships and industrial equipment.
Unlike piston engines, gas turbines operate through continuous combustion rather than repeated explosions: air enters, mixes with fuel, ignites, and the expanding gases spin turbine blades.
The power plant runs on three gas turbines.
- jet enginesAircraft thrust generators
- jet propulsionMotion via expelled mass
- bladesSharp flat cutting parts
- cogenerationSimultaneous heat and electricity production
- superalloysHigh-temperature resistant metal mixtures
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- power systemsgenerators, power plants, power stations, electricity, power grid
- Mechanical Engineeringmechanical engineer, design engineer, valves, motors, aerospace engineer
- ship machineryship engines, propulsion systems, diesel engines, propellers, propeller
- thermal processesheating, burning, cooling, boiling, melting
- fluid systemspumps, valves, pipes, hydraulic systems, fluid flow
gas turbinespiston engines
Motors driven by cylinders
internal combustion engines · steam engines · diesel engines · electric motors · four-stroke engines
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Light-converting power generators
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