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Turbine à vapeur
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Mercury vapour turbine
A mercury vapour turbine is a form of heat engine that uses mercury as the working fluid of its thermal cycle. A mercury vapour turbine has been used in conjunction with a steam turbine for generating electricity. This example of combined cycle generation was not widely adopted, because of high capital cost and the obvious toxic hazard if the mercury leaked into the environment. The mercury cycle offers an efficiency increase compared to a steam-only cycle because energy can be injected into the Rankine cycle at higher temperature.
Feedwater heater
A feedwater heater is a power plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to a steam generating boiler. Preheating the feedwater reduces the irreversibilities involved in steam generation and therefore improves the thermodynamic efficiency of the system. This reduces plant operating costs and also helps to avoid thermal shock to the boiler metal when the feedwater is introduced back into the steam cycle. In a steam power plant (usually modeled as a modified Rankine cycle), feedwater heaters allow the feedwater to be brought up to the saturation temperature very gradually.
Pompe centrifuge
thumb|Figure 1: Pompe centrifuge utilisée en vinification. vignette|Figure 2: Pompe centrifuge de type Râteau à arbre horizontal Une pompe centrifuge est une machine rotative qui pompe un liquide en le forçant au travers d’une roue à aubes ou d'une hélice appelée impulseur (souvent nommée improprement turbine). C’est le type de pompe industrielle le plus commun. Par l’effet de la rotation de l’impulseur, le fluide pompé est aspiré axialement dans la pompe, puis accéléré radialement, et enfin refoulé tangentiellement.
Boiler feedwater pump
A boiler feedwater pump is a specific type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler. The water may be freshly supplied or returning condensate produced as a result of the condensation of the steam produced by the boiler. These pumps are normally high pressure units that take suction from a condensate return system and can be of the centrifugal pump type or positive displacement type. Feedwater pumps range in size up to many kilowatts and the electric motor is usually separated from the pump body by some form of mechanical coupling.
Steam generator (nuclear power)
A steam generator (aka nuclear steam raising plant ('NSRP')) is a heat exchanger used to convert water into steam from heat produced in a nuclear reactor core. They are used in pressurized water reactor between the primary and secondary coolant loops. In typical PWR designs, the primary coolant is high-purity water, kept under high pressure so it cannot boil. This primary coolant is pumped through the reactor core where it absorbs heat from the fuel rods.
Governor (device)
A governor, or speed limiter or controller, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine. A classic example is the centrifugal governor, also known as the Watt or fly-ball governor on a reciprocating steam engine, which uses the effect of inertial force on rotating weights driven by the machine output shaft to regulate its speed by altering the input flow of steam. Control theory Centrifugal governors were used to regulate the distance and pressure between millstones in windmills since the 17th century.
Tuyère
Une tuyère (tuyère propulsive dans le domaine de l'astronautique) est un conduit de section droite variable placé à l'arrière d'un moteur produisant des gaz de combustion chauds qui permet de transformer l'énergie thermique de ceux-ci en énergie cinétique. Pour atteindre cet objectif et en fonction du contexte de mise en œuvre, une tuyère peut être convergente, divergente ou comporter une section convergente et une autre divergente (tuyère de Laval).