Is a turbine the same as a turbo engine ?

Question

I spent the day reading about the different types of gas turbine engines.Turbojet, turbofan, turboprop and after burning turbojets.I now know more today than I did yesterday. Thanks

Answer 1

No.  A turbine is not an engine.

Answer 2

If you are comparing it with the car engine then this is not the case turbo is all together a different thing then the turbine engine basically the turbine are the one which have the compressors then combustion chambers where as turbo just enhances the output of the engine rather accelerate the process of the power making.

Answer 3

No. A turbocharger is a small turbine attached to piston engines and is driven by the exhaust gases coming from the engine. As the throttle is increased, the exhaust gases spin the turbocharger which in turn is used to suck in air and then insert this now higher pressure air into the engine. What turbocharging does for aircraft is maintain sea-level pressure in the climb and high altitude flight so the engine can maintain its rated horsepower. Non-turbocharged engines lose power as they climb as the density of the air decreases with altitude not allowing the engine to "breathe" as easily and develop full power.

Turbine engines are essentially the jet engines that you would think of. Turbines run by a series of spinning blades that suck in air,compress it greatly, mix with fuel, ignite, and blow it out behind it to produce thrust. Turbines may be the type used in a jet wherein the thrust is blown out the back or the type used in turboprop aircraft or helicopters that uses the thrust of the engine to drive a shaft such as on a propeller or rotor respectively.

Answer 4

A turbine is technically the rotor that uses energy from the exhaust gas to drive a compressor or a prop or a shaft. Turbines are used in gas turbine engines of all kinds including turbojet engines, turbofan engines, turboprop engines and turboshaft engines. They are also used to provide the torque to drive the compressor in a turbocharger, which is not an engine at all but just a driven compressor. They have other uses in power generation and in fuel pumps for things like the Space Shuttle. The terminology is confusing and is often used interchangeably in error or due to lack of rigor.

Answer 5

FOR AIRCRAFT

Turbine Engine - There are two kinds. One is what you would typically refer to as a (TURBOJET) engine, found on airliners and business jets today (the engine directly force air backwards in a 'jet' of air).  The other turbine (TURBOPROP) is the same type of engine, but with a propeller forcing the air backwards. The turbine engine is only used to rotate the propeller.  

Turbo boosted Engine - This is where a normal internal cumbustion engine (just like what you have in automobiles) is fitted with a device that boosts engine perfromance and efficency. It uses 'waste' energy from exhaust gases, to power an aircompressor, which conditions the fresh air going into the internal cumbustion engine for better performance.

Answer 6

It depends on what you mean by turbine and turbo.

Turbine usually means a gas turbine engine.  It uses a turbine driven compressor to supply air for a continuous combustion of fuel.  This hot gas is then used for thrust or to turn additional turbines for horsepower.

A turbo usually means a turbocharged engine.  It is like a regular piston engine but uses the hot exhaust gases to turn a compressor that supplies the engine with high pressure air, increasing it's power.  The heart of a turbo engine is still the pistons and cylinders though.

Some turbocharged aircraft used to have the words 'turbo' written on their sides to advertise that they were superior to the normally aspirated piston models...until they were accidentally filled with jet fuel (by people thinking they were turbine engined).  A few crashes happened as a result.