Abstract: A full admission radial impulse turbine and turbines with full admission radial impulse stages. The last-mentioned turbines are of the single shaft, dual pressure type. Provision is made for utilizing working fluid exhausted from the high pressure section, in which the radial impulse stage(s) are located, in the low pressure section which contains axial flow turbine stages. The (or each) radial impulse stage in the dual pressure turbine has a rotor or wheel with buckets or pockets oriented transversely to the direction of wheel rotation and opening onto the periphery of the wheel. Working fluid is supplied to the buckets via nozzles formed in, or supported from, a nozzle ring surrounding the turbine wheel and aligned with the entrance ends of the buckets.

Abstract: A vaneless diffuser disposed on the outer periphery of an impeller of a centrifugal compressor and including a pair of opposed diffuser plates of a disk shape defining therebetween a fluid channel is formed with a plurality of guide vanes extending from the inlet of the diffuser to its outlet. The guide vanes which are disposed on at least one of the pair of diffuser plates and extend immediately from the outlet of the impeller in the direction of flow of a fluid through the fluid channel has a height smaller than one-half the width of the fluid channel and gradually decreasing in going from the inlet of the diffuser toward its outlet.