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Depends on how you want to catigorize them ...
mobile or stationary
piston or turbine
condensing or non-condensing
and weither the power comes from the steam pressure or from the vacumm you get when you condence the steam.
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∙ 13y agoImpulse Turbine and Reaction Turbine. This is the globally used main tow type turbines.
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