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Steam turbines

Steam turbines are energy converting devices, which are converting the steam pressure stream into the mechanical rotational power, which is then driving electrical generator. Only the ways of winning the heat differ for different kinds of widely used poser plants, which utilize thermal energy conversion, everything else is nearly the same. Therefore, we have recently worldwide spread nuclear power plants, crewed oil and Earth's gas power plants as well as biomass power plants, and solar power plants, among the others.

Numerous different kinds of steam turbines, which are used recently in gigantic sizes to drive the single generators of up to 1.5 GW of electrical power, are blade-based turbines, which are utilizing steam expansion for driving successive turbine wheals, winning at efficiency which is still less then one, since ultimately losses producing second thermodynamic law has been introduced for projecting such strong limiting energy converting system. Such converter is not only of huge size but rather it is very expensive to be produced, installed, and maintained.

One historical invention, which deserves a lot of more attention, then until recently is Tesla turbine invented at 1901, US patent granted at 1913. This genius invention utilizes the adhesive attractive force between molecules of blade less rotor, and driving fluid, which is spinning along the spiral pathway across the disk surface, causing the rotor to speedup. Thanks to the matter of fact that the turbine is blade less, extremely high rotational speed could be achieved. Using appropriate power transmission system the high-spead low-torque ratio could be translated to low-spead high-torque ratio, achieving huge power output for relatively small volumes of steam stream turbine devices. Possible utilization of this kind of turbine is going to be represented in this work. 

Of numerous methods how to utilize the steam after exiting the turbine, I'd like to highlight the water cycling process, allowed by implementing the water condenser and pulsed injection system, which would allowed for re-implementing already pre-heated condensed water at approximately 50 grad of Celsius scale, injecting it impulsive back into the pressure steam pot. This technology is recently widely used in nuclear reaction power plants, to avoid the radioactive steam to be released in environmental surrounding. 

 

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