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Article: Full steam ahead: CFD software aids development of efficient turbine.(Tech Upgrade)
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- Designfax
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Computer simulation played an important role in the development of what is purported to be the world's most efficient steam turbine, built by Siemens Power Generation (PG) for the VEAG power plant in Boxberg, Germany. This turbine has demonstrated an internal turbine efficiency of 94.2% for the high pressure turbine and 96.1% for the intermediate pressure turbine, resulting in a world-record 48.5% gross efficiency.
Siemens' Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, engineering center is responsible for architecting design rules and tools used by the company's worldwide engineering network to design turbines to customer specifications. In the early 1990s, the company moved ...