How to Use steam turbine in a Sentence

steam turbine

noun

• The age of steam relied on the same concept, as do modern steam turbines.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 May 2020
• At its core, the drinking bird is a heat engine, not that unlike a steam turbine or diesel engine.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2018
• The only engine available is a honey-ham-burning brick oven with three steam turbines that weighs 3000 pounds.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2020
• Either way, that heat can be used immediately to drive a steam turbine, or it can be transferred to molten salt, where the heat can be stored for hours.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
• That was a $220 million drop from the same quarter last year, which the company said resulted from a steam turbine going offline in May.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2022
• That material is then burned to run steam turbines that produce electricity (and heat as a by-product) that can be piped to homes.
  — Jess Shankleman, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• The heat is used to boil water and drive a steam turbine that generates electricity in large quantities.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
• GE Steam Power is the world's largest steam and coal power franchise, with 30% of the world's steam turbine capacity, according to its website.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Sep. 2020
• But the researchers note the efficiency is already higher than that of the average steam turbine generator in the US.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2022
• The onboard steam turbine, for instance, will be connected to a generator that charges the batteries to provide power to the azimuth thrusters.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2023
• Hot water coming out of a steam turbine can also be used to heat the isopentane, providing two layers of generation.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• The repairs from that issue were made and the utility went to restart Eagle Valley’s steam turbine generator in November.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2022
• Here are other similarities: Both boats were steam turbines and their engine rooms were very similar.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2019
• There are numerous complex machines such as jet engines, steam turbines and many others that can be difficult to research and understand just by looking at sheets of paper.
  — Abhinand Chincholi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Combined-cycle power plants use gas and a steam turbines together to produce up to 50 percent more electricity from the same amount of fuel needed by traditional power plants.
  — Rye Druzin, San Antonio Express-News, 22 May 2018
• Siemens employs about 1,650 at its Westinghouse Boulevard plant in Charlotte, where workers make steam turbines and electrical generators for energy firms.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 29 Jan. 2018
• Burning iron powder produces heat that can be used directly or converted into electricity by a steam turbine, leaving behind iron oxide, or rust.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2023
• To generate electricity, the TWR uses a more complicated system than today’s reactors, which use the core’s immense heat to boil water and drive a steam turbine to generate usable electricity.
  — Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
• Air Products also will build and operate in Texas City its largest-ever steam methane reformer to produce hydrogen, an air separation unit to supply nitrogen, and a steam turbine generator for the power and utilities.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2020
• Siemens employs about 1,650 at its facility on Westinghouse Boulevard, where workers make steam turbines and electrical generators for energy firms.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 29 May 2018
• Thermal uses mirrors to focus incoming sunlight onto a location that reaches high temperatures, which can then be used to generate electricity by driving a steam turbine.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2019
• The steam turbine generator invented by Charles Parsons in 1884 revolutionized the production of electricity as well as marine transport.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2019
• Siemens employs about 1,650 people at its facility on Westinghouse Boulevard, where the company manufactures steam turbines and electrical generators for energy firms.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 12 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024