Steam turbines for modern fossil-fuel power plants
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Lilburn, GA : Boca Raton, FL :
Fairmont Press ; Distributed by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press,
©2008.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780881735499 0881735493 9781601198105 1601198108 9781420061024 142006102X 9781003151388 1003151388 0881735485 9780881735482 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 537 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Steam turbines in the modern world
- Rise of steam turbine output and efficiency with steam parameters
- Configuration of modern power steam turbines
- Design of steam path, blading, gland seals, and valves
- Last stage blades and exhaust hoods of LP cylinders
- Thermal expansion, bearings, and lubrication
- Operating conditions and start-up systems for steam-turbine power units
- Experimental and calculation researches of turbine transients
- Start-up technologies as applied to different start-up systems
- Start-up instructions for steam-turbine power units and their improvement
- Scheduled and unscheduled load changes within and beyond the governed range
- Cycling operation and its influence on turbine performances
- Automated data acquisition and control systems for modern power plants
- Diagnostic monitoring of turbine heat-rate and flow-capacity performances
- Diagnostic monitoring of turbine temperature and thermal-stress states
- Post-operative analysis of the turbine's operating conditions
- Assessment and extension of steam turbine lifetime
- Steam turbine upgrade
- Appendixes: List of abbreviations and symbols
- Acronyms
- Symbols
- Subscripts and superscripts
- Criteria of similarity
- Conversion table for main units used.