Steam Turbine - Brno, Czech Republic - Preserved Machines on Public Display on Waymarking.com

Depicted steam turbine is located on Technická street (Technical street) in front of the building of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME) of the Brno University of Technology. Unfortunately there's no information table or plaque, so another information about type or years are unknown.

"A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884.

Because the turbine generates rotary motion, it is particularly suited to be used to drive an electrical generator – about 90% of all electricity generation in the United States (1996) is by use of steam turbines. The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic efficiency through the use of multiple stages in the expansion of the steam, which results in a closer approach to the most efficient reversible process."

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Type of Machine: Steam turbine Year the machine was built: unknown Year the machine was put on display: unknown Is there online documentation for this machine: Not listed

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