The Development of a Reaction Type Total Flow Turbine
- Conference
- Japan International Geothermal Symposium
- Year
- 1988
- Session
- Power Generation and Heat Exchange
- Language
- English
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Abstract
At present, most of geothermal wells in the world produce hot water from pits, rather than steam, for generating electric power.
The total flow turbine is an ideal power generanng system for practical applications, since a high power generating efficiency can be obtained utilizing such geothermal resources.
In conventional systems, hot water from geothermal wells is separated into steam and hot water by means of a separator so that only the steam is fed to a geothermal turbine for generating electric power.
The total flow turbine for power generation is driven by expanding hot water directly thus improving the working efficiency of hot water. However, the total flow turbine has not been used for practical applications as yet because of technical problems
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