A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic efficiency from the use of multiple stages in the expansion of the steam, which results in a closer approach to the ideal reversible expansion process. Because the turbine generates rotary motion, it is particularly suited to be used to drive an electrical generator.
- Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries
- Lube Oil Systems
- Control & Flow Measurement
- Condensers & Heat Exchangers
- Forgings, Machinings & Large Component Fabrications,
- Fabrications of Steel Pipe, Spools
- Deaerators
- Waste Plants
- Gas and Oil Industries
- Sugar Mills
- These turbines work at high speed and operating speed is also wide range.
- There is no balancing problem in this turbine as there are no reciprocating parts.
- Moving parts are very less
- These turbines generate continuous output power.
- Efficiency is high
- They use high vacuum very usefully
- There is no loss because of the initial condensation of steam
- These are used for higher output.