Turbine Definition and 546 Threads

Hello, I am creating a wind turbine project that will be very simple to do, hopefully. I already have an old turbine that came from a camera in a airplane some years ago. I need to produce electricity with my turbine, obviously, and before I create my design, I want to ensure the effectiveness...

Hi pf, I know that the stream turbine blades are twisted in design so that when steam is forced across the face there is a torque exerted on the turbine. If you look closely at the blades then they are roughly at a 45 degree angle to the oncoming steam which means a component of the force from...

Hi everyone : I have a question: how to calculate the maximum work delivered by a turbine. Steam input T and pressure are given plus the outlet pressure only. Using Peng-Robinson equation of state. Adiabatic process. I tried to find outlet temperature by trial and error using Peng-Robinson EOS...

Hi, I'm trying to figure which is more fuel efficient, turbine vs stroke generators. This honda stroke engine generator does 1000w for 3.8 hrs with 0.6 gallons of fuel or 2.3 liters, so the power per liter of fuel is 1,300 kW. http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu1000i Then I...

Homework Statement [/B] Plan an investigation to evaluate wind power as an energy source with equipment: • model wind turbine • multimeter to measure the voltage generated • anemometer to measure wind speed • hair dryer to generate wind power, set on cold • metre rule to measure...

I want to design a wind toubine ,I know the wnd vel,I need certain amount of power ..How to design it and how to calculate at which rpm will it rotate to deliver my required power?

Hi Everyone, So I seem to have many problems understanding the Psychrometric chart and its physical meaning. First of all, I would be so thankful if you could introduce me a source which can be useful to physically and fundamentally understand the dew point, effect of pressure, humidity... and...

Hello everyone, i am currently dimensioning a compression system using a vehicle turbocharger and need to find a way to relate the pressure ratio of the compressor and the mass flow rate. (flows trough compressor and turbine are of course separated) For the turbine, one can use Stodola's...

In the aeroplanes, the drag is in the opposite way of the direction of the aeroplane. My questions for wind turbine: 1) Why "wind speed" and "the drag on the blade" is in the same direction? Shouldn't be the opposite? 2) Are freestream velocity and the wind speed same thing? 3) Are the drag...

Hello, I know there is a similar topic but it has been closed. It is about a wind turbine that generates wild AC from 0 to 240V(open voltage) for a maximum of 1500W. Instead of using a charge controller, a battery bank and an inverter I would like to connect a water heating element directly to...

Homework Statement "identify the type of energy conversions present in each of the following situations. Some questions may use multiple types of energy." 1) a wind turbine producing electricity 2) two children sliding down a hill on a toboggan 3) a toaster oven browning a bagel Homework...

I was wondering if someone is very well into the Buckingham Pi Theory and can assist me in understanding the outcome. I have two dimensionless equations and I need to get an understanding on how they were made by the Buckingham Pi theory. The situation is considered for the reynolds number...

Having trouble at a plant where the vacuum has increased to the point where a pump has been put on the end of the air ejector condenser to maintain vacuum, without it the limits would be too high and trip the Steam Turbine. The question is, does the air ejector condenser continuously drain...

Homework Statement max. Turbine work output rate: 6.0MW Turbine isentropic efficiency: 90% Turbine exit state (isentropic): 40KPa, x=92% Turbine and pump actual process are assumed adiabatic Find turbine inlet state: Pinlet, Tinlet, Sinlet Homework Equations W = ΔH h = hf + xhfg The Attempt...

I'm working on a project right now which requires a hydro turbine generator system requiring 120W of power output capable of working with the following specs: Flow: 0.003m^s/s Pressure: 6m head By my calculations, this should require an efficiency of ~66%. All flow must be in the axial...

Homework Statement Homework Equations P=FV The Attempt at a Solution To calculate the mass of wind swept by turbine in a second, I take 2000m2 ×10ms-1×1.3kgm-3.Then, to calculate the force I multiply the answer with 10ms-1. Since they want the power and the yield is 50%. I multiply the...

Hello all my friends...! This is my first discusion about this type of discusion , so let make long short story i read people from 2009 want to find way how to use wind in car producion or self use... I was thinking let me try to find way to get solution on that problem so after long thinking ...

I know this is easy but i need to know the flow velocity through a pipe reducing in diameter inside a canal. the water velocity is 3m/s water depth is 1.5 m the pipe is at the bottom inlet diameter 0.9m small reduced diameter 0.6m outlet diameter = 0.8m note: this is an open canal with...

Hey I've been thinking of this idea for a while, If I had a small boat with a home made gas turbine engine on it to power it solely with thrust. If I put an afterburner on it and nozzle; and had a small intake for water that filtered out all of the crud. Would it be possible to generate more...

1. Superheated Steam enters a turbine with a pressure of 10 bar and a temp of 300 degrees celcius, and exits with a pressure of 0.046 bar. As the steam flows through the turbine it undergoes adiabatic expansion according to the law pv to the power 1.131 = constant From Steam tables I have to...

Dear All, I am trying to perform the static analysis of turbine blade in ANSYS. And i have a problem with finding the values of tangential force. How can i find it, if have following data: operating speed - 3000 RPM, stage power - 1413 kW, axial load 5544 N, number of blades - 45. Thanks a lot!

Hi I am new member ( mechanical engineer student ) , and the college just add a new course which is Turbo machinery , any way the teacher is new to the course & the quality of our teacher is not that good so , I was having a question and ask him but didnt get much from him so here I am ^^When...

where in the world can i purchase a A ram air turbine Rat.._ i want to mount it on the roof of my rv trailer build. and use it as a wind turbine generator as i drive down the road, to recharge my batteries.. i heard you really can't use a regular wind turbine or can you..?? or will it just...

Given a certain sized Savonius Wind Turbine, for example, using a 5 gallon bucket (about 12 inches in diameter and 14 inches tall) cut vertically in half, the standard configuration has the two "scoops" either touching at the central vertical axis, or partially overlapped. Would moving both...

i need the design data of a reaction steam turbine in order to complete my project..My project is about waste heat recovery plant..

Hi, I have this wind turbine (http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/251320008073?nav=WATCHING_ACTIVE&skus=Output:12V&varId=550270984212) in the UK, wall mounted about 18ft, its not in the best position, but it still turns pretty fast, enough to hear the blades spinning from inside, and for it to generate...

hi friends, I've used the following equation in Thermodynamics: an engineering approach(Cengel) for calculating exergy efficiency of compressor. In fact, for an adiabatic compressor with negligible kinetic and potential energies, the second-law(exergy) efficiency becomes...

Hi, I have a 300-400w wind turbine which generates 3-Phase AC @ 12v 33.33Amps Maximum. The wires are colour coded Red, Black, Blue. I have a 3-Phase AC to DC rectifier which can handle up to 1200v @ 50A. Currently I have it connected like so; Red, Blue, Black. I'm wondering, does it matter...

I'm working on a project now and I'd like to know which type of airflow would power a turbine faster/better straight or rotational? Or will rotational airflow even have any effect on the turbine...? P.S. When I say rotational airflow, I mean circular airflow that rotates in the same direction...

hi , will change first law efficiency proportional to second law efficiency? for example in gas turbine cycle, how change? other equation: hi , will change first law efficiency proportional to second law efficiency? for example in gas turbine cycle, how change? other equation: How is the...

Homework Statement Basically, a wind turbine's connected to a car alternator. weight of turbine=72 kg length of blade-30 cm. What is required, is the amt of power this wind turbine will produce when the car (to which turbine is attached) is moving at: a) constant speed b) variable speed...

So, my proposition is this: (Note that this is a purely theoretical project, and no models/experiments are necessary.) When a car moves forward, wind moves backward, right (relatively). So if we were to attach a small, retractable wind turbine to the side, connect it to the alternator, we could...

Is there such thing as a turbine that increases air speed/compression? This seems like a dumb question but I'm having a heck of a time locating any information on it because any iteration of "air turbine" entered into Google just brings up information about wind mills. I'm looking for something...

hi friends, I am working EES software for thermodynamic lesson,I am analyzing second law efficiency(exergy efficiency) and exergy analysis for all components of gas turbine cycle. Now I have a problem,exergy efficiency of turbine decrease with increasing before temperature,why? As you know...

Hello, I could use some help determining what size hydraulic cylinder I need to be able to tilt my turbine tower up. What I have is a 70 ft tower where the first 20 feet weigh 2500 lbs, the 2nd 20 weigh 1700 lbs and the 3rd 20 ft weigh 1000 lbs and the last 10 feet weigh 1000 lbs. For a total...

Hi Everyone, I am building a hydro turbine, I am expecting it to produce circa 4 kw possibly as high as 7 kw depending on flow. I am on a very limited budget. Please could you suggest possible means of getting load output data? I have considered attaching a heavy truck 24 v alternator and doing...

Homework Statement During a sustained wind the blades on a two blade horizontal–axis wind turbine is turning with an angular velocity of 5 rad/s. If initially the blades have an angular velocity of 2 rad/s, determine the distance point P on the tip of the blade has traveled in 3.0 seconds...

Homework Statement The mass flow rate through a steam turbine operating under steady conditions is 100 kg/s. Steam enters the turbine at 12 MPa and 400oC. A mixture of vapour and liquid water exits the turbine at 10 kPa. At the exit state 93% of the mass of the water is in vapour form. The...

I'm attempting to design a turbine for a small scale solar updraft tower. It produces between 1-3 m/s of air flow in a 0.3m diameter tower. I'm in need of resources that can guide me on designing the turbine fan. I've already got the Wind Energy Handbook, however I'm not even sure if following...

Firstly, let's assume the expansion is isentropic. An example I found: Mass flow = 0.5kg/s Pi = 6000 kPa Ti = 500 Celcius Pf = 30kPa From this, how do we find the power generated and final steam quality? Do we look at steam tables, W = m(flow) (h_1 - h_2) --- is that helpful?

hi my dear friends, Wells turbine is the subject of the my Thesis: http://www.upload7.ir/imgs/2014-10/37346220310608280524.jpg i make below model in gambit 2.4 ,But now I want to make the upper airfoil cord bigger than the bottom one. below model is constant,attention to third pictures(...

im designing a steam turbine and boiler for a solar energy project but i can't figure out the math and have had trouble looking it up the only thing that is definite about the turbine (other than that its a tesla turbine) is that the thermal wattage is 5,855 watts or 1,434.72 calories per second...

Hi guys, I'm trying to find info with respect to twist angles of a turbine blade (for airplane engines, let's say)... I read somewhere on the forum that it's typically 0-20 degrees. I'm trying to look for quoted sources though or at least second opinions on that matter.

Homework Statement As part of a school project, I'm investigating the optimum blade pitch angle for a simple 6-blade wind turbine, powered by the air flow from a desk fan. I have taken power output measurements using angles in 5° intervals from 0° to 30° and found the optimum to be 20° in 5...

Homework Statement The pressure ratio of an air standard gas-turbine cycle is 8/1 and the inlet conditions to the compressor are 200 KPa and 30C. The turbine is limited to a temperature of 1500K and the compressor and turbine adiabatic efficiencies are 60 and 90 respectively. Calculate...

guys i just wanted to know the formula by which i can calculate the thermal efficiency of a pass out steam turbine( a steam turbine with an extraction for process ) I've attached a simple diagram explaining my problem can anyone please help !

hello. I have to design and test a gas turbine that uses pressurised air as a project. however the problem is, I don't know where to start. can anyone please help me? do I start with the blades or the housing? I have seen some videos on youtube, but this is a university project and I think its...

The hydraulic efficiency of a turbine (let pelton turbine) is given by - (power developed by runner or shaft power)/(water power) shaft power is - (mass flow rate)*(Vw1+Vw2)*u water power is - density*g*Q*H My question is that the pressure head is converted into kinetic energy in nozzle then...

Hi guys something basic that I can't understand: if I have a wind turbine , rotating due to some wind with no load , and no mechanical or drag losses in the blades or in the mechanics (no drag at all, I know its impposible ,but still) , the forces on the blades, create a Moment that accelarate...

Homework Statement Hi guys, I just wanted to verify my calculation of a reynolds number of a wind turbine. I understand that the reynolds number will vary in a spanwise direction along the blade due to changes in the characteristic length(chord width) and velocity(due to the tip speed...