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    Steam turbines work by using high-pressure steam to spin turbine blades inside a sealed container, much like a wind turbine, but rotating much faster due to the steam's pressure. As the steam expands and loses pressure as it flows past the blades, it transfers its energy to spin the blades and power electricity generators. Unlike steam engines, steam turbines have continuously spinning blades rather than reciprocating pistons, allowing them to operate in a smaller and more compact space. This made steam turbines well-suited for powering ships where space was limited.

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    Steam turbines work by using high-pressure steam to spin turbine blades inside a sealed container, much like a wind turbine, but rotating much faster due to the steam's pressure. As the steam expands and loses pressure as it flows past the blades, it transfers its energy to spin the blades and power electricity generators. Unlike steam engines, steam turbines have continuously spinning blades rather than reciprocating pistons, allowing them to operate in a smaller and more compact space. This made steam turbines well-suited for powering ships where space was limited.

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    Steam turbines work by using high-pressure steam to spin turbine blades inside a sealed container, much like a wind turbine, but rotating much faster due to the steam's pressure. As the steam expands and loses pressure as it flows past the blades, it transfers its energy to spin the blades and power electricity generators. Unlike steam engines, steam turbines have continuously spinning blades rather than reciprocating pistons, allowing them to operate in a smaller and more compact space. This made steam turbines well-suited for powering ships where space was limited.

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    Steam turbines work by using high-pressure steam to spin turbine blades inside a sealed container, much like a wind turbine, but rotating much faster due to the steam's pressure. As the steam expands and loses pressure as it flows past the blades, it transfers its energy to spin the blades and power electricity generators. Unlike steam engines, steam turbines have continuously spinning blades rather than reciprocating pistons, allowing them to operate in a smaller and more compact space. This made steam turbines well-suited for powering ships where space was limited.

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    Steam Turbines

    introduction

    The first steam engine built by James Watt in the year 1769 was the advent in substituting the low
    energy rates produced by wind, water, man and beast for the higher mechanical power produced by a
    machine. A further milestone was in the year 1866 when Werner von Siemens invented the principle of
    producing electricity from a rotating machine, the so-called electro-magnetic principle. Coupled to the
    steam engine this had the advantage of producing power centrally and making it available at a large
    number of points. The steam engine and also to a latter extent the diesel engine had a limited capacity
    in producing power, due to the inherent disadvantages of reciprocating machinery. This led to the
    introduction of rotating machinery to produce the steadily increasing needs for electricity; already well
    known in the harnessing of water energy the principle of blading was adopted in the steam and at a
    later date in the gas turbines.

    I Theory of a steam turbine

    As its name suggests, a steam turbine is powered by the energy in hot, gaseous steam—and works like a
    cross between a wind turbine and a water turbine. Like a wind turbine, it has spinning blades that turn
    when steam blows past them; like a water turbine, the blades fit snugly inside a sealed outer container
    so the steam is constrained and forced past them at speed. Steam turbines use high-pressure steam to
    turn electricity generators at incredibly high speeds, so they rotate much faster than either wind or
    water turbines. (A typical power plant steam turbine rotates at 1800–3600 rpm—about 100–200 times
    faster than the blades spin on a typical wind turbine, which needs to use a gearbox to drive a generator
    quickly enough to make electricity.) Just like in a steam engine, the steam expands and cools as it flows
    past a steam turbine's blades, giving up as much as possible of the energy it originally contained. But,
    unlike in a steam engine, the flow of the steam turns the blades continually: there's no push-pull action
    or waiting for a piston to return to position in the cylinder because steam is pushing the blades around
    all the time. A steam turbine is also much more compact than a steam engine: spinning blades allow
    steam to expand and drive a machine in a much smaller space than a piston-cylinder-crank arrangement
    would need. That's one reason why steam turbines were quickly adopted for powering ships, where
    space was very limited.
    working

     fuel (coal) to release the energy stored inside it, coal burns in a furnace and releases heat, which boils
    water like a kettle and generates high-pressure steam. The steam feeds through a pipe into
    a cylinder with a tight fitting piston, which moves outward as the steam flows in—a bit like
    a bicycle pump working in reverse. As the steam expands to fill the cylinder, it cools down, loses
    pressure, and gives up its energy to the piston. The piston pushes the locomotive's wheels around
    before returning back into the cylinder so the whole process can be repeated. The steam isn't a source
    of energy: it's an energy-transporting fluid that helps to convert the energy locked inside coal into
    mechanical energy that propels 

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