Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 483
would have been totally wrecked when derangement of thelow-pressure control permitted a full flow of low-pressure steam whilethe machine was running without load. The engineer quickly closedboth steam line stop valves and brought the turbine to a halt, but inspite of his promptness the buckets and… … The low-pressure stages of this turbine were designed to useexhaust steam at about 8 pounds pressure from a battery of hammersin the forge shop. To augment this, the turbine had also a high-pres-sure steam inlet and a selective governor arrangement so that high-pressure steam would automatically be…
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