How does a turbine work?

Question

I know it is used to create electricity but with what and how?
please don't use complex words

Answer 1

The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they rotate and impart energy to the rotor.

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Answer 2

The turbine does not produce electricity. The generator driven by the turbine is the power producer.

The turbine works exactly like the old windmill or water wheel but is capable of producing thousands of horsepower .

A large number of vanes (blades), are fitted at an angle into a 'wheel' on a shaft to form a 'rotor'.

High pressure steam (steam turbine) or high pressure, very hot, expanding combustion gases (gas turbine), is directed onto the blades. Large powerful turbines will have a number of wheels on a single shaft to utilise the maximum amount of energy provided by the steam or hot gases.

The force of the air or gases acting on the angled blades causes the rotor to rotate at very high speed.
The rotor shaft is connected to the generator which produces the electric power.

A hydro-electric power station uses the energy of huge volumes of flowing water to drive water turbines that carry out the same function as the above mentioned turbines.
A wind turbine uses the energy of the wind.

Answer 3

A 'turbine' is a type of mechanical engine (be it driven by jet fuel, high pressure steam, or water falling through a dam) whose output is a turning shaft. This shaft is then coupled to an electric generator (very much like the generator in an automobile) and -that- is what generates electrical power.

HTH

Doug

Answer 4

When a magnet is moved around copper, or copper is moved around a magnet, current or electricity is produced. Therefore a turbine would move one of the two creating a current.

Answer 5

In a wind turbine, the wind moves the blades which makes kinetic energy and is stored in a battery.