Types of Turbines

There is no doubt that energy is one of life’s essentials. In today’s life, requirements of energy for daily activities are gradually increasing thus this result in more energy generations are needed. Energy is generated by a rotating instrument called turbine. Cengel and Cimbala (2010) implied that the turbine is a rotating device that transmutes machine-driven work from a gyratory shaft into a useful power. Turbine is used extensively in power generation to supply electricity in large industry and home use. There are three main types of turbines which are wind, steam, and gas turbine (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).

First type of turbine is the gas turbine. It is referred as combustion turbine to transform fuel into a valuable energy in the form of mechanical revolving shaft or an aircraft’s high velocity thrust. A combustion turbine comprises of a gas generator segment and power conversion region. The generator segment consists of a compressor, combustion chamber, and turbine, excerpting adequate power to drive the compressor. Consequently, this results in high temperature and pressure exiting the turbine outlet (Bathie, 1996). Gas turbine is categorised into two distinct groups: frame type heavy-duty gas turbine and turboprop engine.

According to Bathie (1996), the frame entities of gas turbine also referred as an industrial heavy-duty turbine, the largest power harness device entities ranging from 3 MW to 480MW in a simple gas cycle with efficiency's rating from 30 – 46%. The design of the frame-typed gas turbine consists of heavy-wall splitting cases on level centerlines, cover bearings, a wide dimension of the diameter for ignition, wide frontal zone and section of a thick aerofoil of blades and stators. The frame unit g...

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