Parsons turbine
The Parsons turbine is one of the British inventor Charles Parsons developed and Parsons' Company C A Parsons & Co or the Marine Steam Turbine Company built steam turbine .
The turbine, patented in 1884, is technically characterized by the fact that it was the first steam turbine that worked as a reaction turbine and that had several stages of guide vanes and rotor blades with axial flow . This fundamentally differentiates the Parsons turbine from the impulse steam turbine invented by Gustav de Laval in 1883 . Parsons' turbine was a little more complicated in design, but achieved better efficiency and could be more easily adapted to increasing steam pressures and outputs.
Due to the superior technology, the Parsons turbine quickly established itself, and was built in thousands both for stationary operation to generate electricity and as a drive for ships. Later steam turbine developers such as George Westinghouse , Heinrich Zoelly , Auguste Rateau and others. a. built on Parsons' invention. Today most modern steam turbines operate on the basic principle of the Parsons turbine, i. H. according to the reaction principle.
literature
- Jörg Seume (Ed.): Stationary gas turbines . 2nd, revised edition. Springer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-92788-4 .
- Oswald Flamm: The entire German shipbuilding industry 1908 . Salzwasser-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86195-090-5 .
