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 overall efficiency gains over steam turbines are up to 5 percent.
    — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • In conventional steam turbines, this means boiling water into steam, which is why the heat source is called a boiler.
    — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • Heat from fission warms the steel casing, and water flowing through external pipes captures that heat to drive a steam turbine.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The heat is used to boil water and drive a steam turbine that generates electricity in large quantities.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Mar. 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 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
  • 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 distinction must be drawn here between ground source heat and the geothermal resource used to drive the steam turbines used in large scale power generation.
    — Pat Sapinsley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Tanks hold enough hot salt to operate the plant’s steam turbine for 11 hours, enabling continuous power output with or without sunlight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The project, for example, plans to power its processing of natural gas with a gas and steam turbine, as well as solar energy, according to the company.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Burning iron powder produces heat that can be used directly or converted into electricity by a steam turbine, leaving behind iron oxide, or rust.
    — Prachi Patel, IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2023
  • 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
  • Most fusion technologies, as well as nuclear fission, are based on generating heat to power steam turbines, which produce the electricity.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Underground steam and hot water then generate heat through an extensive network of pipelines, or are converted to electricity using steam turbines.
    — Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The efficiency of a supercritical turbine can be understood by comparing its operation to that of a steam turbine’s.
    — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • During that time, the conversion efficiency of TPV devices has been able to reach 40 percent, better than that of some steam turbines.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Engineers can harness this energy to heat water and generate electricity through a steam turbine, but the path to fusion isn’t completely straightforward.
    — Sophie Blondel, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the heart of this verdant campus is another green expanse—a gleaming, 10,000-square-meter shop floor churning out rotors and blades alongside assembly bays and test beds for steam turbines.
    — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Singhania tapped Triveni again in 2024, seeking a 23MW steam turbine for another factory.
    — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Nuclear power plants generate electricity by splitting the U-235 atom in a process called fission, which produces heat used to turn a steam turbine connected to a generator.
    — Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Nuclear power plants generate electricity by splitting the U-235 atom in a process called fission, which produces heat used to turn a steam turbine connected to a generator.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025

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