The first device that may be classified as a reaction steam turbine was little more than a toy, the classic Aeolipile, … See more

The present day manufacturing industry for steam turbines consists of the following companies:
• WEG (Brazil)
• Harbin Electric, Shanghai Electric, Dongfang Electric (China)… See more

Steam turbines are made in a variety of sizes ranging from small <0.75 kW (<1 hp) units (rare) used as mechanical drives for pumps, compressors and other shaft driven equipment, to 1,500 MW (2,000,000 hp) turbines us… See more

An ideal steam turbine is considered to be an isentropic process, or constant entropy process, in which the entropy of the steam entering the turbine is equal to the entropy of the steam leaving the turbine. No steam turbine is tr… See more

Electrical power stations use large steam turbines driving electric generators to produce most (about 80%) of the world's electricity. The advent of large steam turbines made central-station electricity generation … See more