Steam Turbines: With an Appendix on Gas Turbines and the Future of Heat Engines

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Van Nostrand, 1906 - 490 стор.
 

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Сторінка 307 - The mixing of liquids with steam must give besides the loss due to shock, a poor performance in the blade channels, because the individual drops of the " rain of this mixture" must become separated from the steam mass on account of the sharp bending of its path.
Сторінка 63 - In such a case the pressure first follows the line of free expansion and then increases with more or less sudden leaps in a manner depending on the magnitude of the back pressure.
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Сторінка 385 - As often as heat disappears, we must, from the laws of energy, find its equivalent quantity of energy in another form, for instance, as mechanical work.
Сторінка 405 - ... greatest possible extent non-reversible changes of condition. 3. Utilization of the heat given off, and the application of regenerators, where the kind of combustible and the li'O/'Jt processes permit, in so far as we can construct effective and commercially economical regenerators.
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Сторінка ix - Europe; and there is no branch of machine design in which a complete knowledge of the theory involved is so necessary as in Turbine Design.
Сторінка 290 - A relatively low investment cost, (iii) A high efficiency at the design output. (iv) Flexibility, but at loss of efficiency. Pass-out condensing cycle (a) Principle The turbine is divided into a high pressure and a low pressure section, (see Fig. 21), the heating steam being extracted between these. The remainder of the steam after this extraction is expanded in the low pressure section of the turbine, operating as a normal condensing machine. The valve V% located between the extraction point and...

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