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Are there any small steam turbines commercially available? | 21 comments (21 topical, 0 editorial)
Re: Are there any small steam turbines commerciall (3.00 / 0) (#20)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Fri Aug 8th, 2008 at 05:10:44 PM MST
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WXYZCIENCE has moved to a remote location and said he will be off-line for quite a while. If you check his diaries, or the "steam archives" post, you will find his stories.

I don't know of any commercial turbines, other than a wet-methane burning turbine adapted from a turbo that was used to generate electricity on oil rigs as a replacement for diesel-gens.

WXYZCIENCE is a machinist and made a single stage high-RPM turbine by mating two plates that had curved cuts on the edge, resulting in the 90-degree turn needed to get it spinning from a steam jet.

He also tried adapting a turbocharger to steam. I was interested in the PMA he built, he said he had to use a special wire (Litz?) to generate electricty when using high RPM's.

There are some turbines being used for a steam turbine of sorts that uses freon, called "Organic Rankine Cycle" (thanks, wdyasq!). From their web-sites, I got the impression they only sold whole systems, and they were very expensive.



Are there any small steam turbines commercially available? | 21 comments (21 topical, 0 editorial)

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