There are two types of steam turbines.

First of Non-Condensing (Back-pressure) S team Turbine and the other is Extraction Steam Turbine . The primary type of turbine used for central power generation is the condensing turbine. These power-only utility turbines exhaust directly to condensers that m aintain vacuum conditions at the discharge of the turbine. An array of tubes, co oled by river, lake, or cooling tower water, condenses the steam into (liquid) water. The cooling water condenses the steam t urbine exhaust steam in the condenser creating the condenser vacuum. As a small amount of air leaks into the system when it is below atmospheric pressure, a rel atively small compressor removes noncondensable gases from the condenser. Non-co ndensable gases include both air and a small amount of the corrosion byproduct o f the water-iron reaction, hydrogen. The condensing turbine processes result in maximum power and electrical generati on efficiency from the steam supply and boiler fuel. The power output of condens ing turbines is sensitive to ambient conditions. CHP applications use two types of steam turbines: non-condensing and extraction.