This article was originally published with the title “The Steam Turbine: The Steam Engine of Maximum Simplicity and of Highest Thermal Efficiency” in SA Supplements Vol. 51 No. 1307supp ...

Kristen A. Marino, Berit Hinnemann, Emily A. Carter, Atomic-scale insight and design principles for turbine engine thermal barrier coatings from theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

New alloys withstand high temperatures with little thermal expansion. Aircraft engines must perform in extremely hot and cold environments. A plane taking off from Antarctica, for example, can ...

The turbine entry temperatures of modern civil engines are now approaching those of the latest military combat engines, and the longer operational lives expected by airlines place greater demands on ...

New Laser Technology Speeds Drilling Today, most turbine components require some form of nonconductive TBC, thus, final dimension shaping through the TBC is made possible by the many new ...

Weichai spent more than a year and a half developing its new engine, accumulating more than 200 fresh patents in the process. Its claimed thermal efficiency figure of 53.09% was verified by a ...