Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 47
^ Please show to your Engineer 34 THE LOCOMOTIVE April, Two Plants Experience Costly Turbine Explosions AVERY disastrous turbo-generator explosion occurred on October7th, 1929, at a power plant in Texas. A 6,000-kw. machine wasso badly damaged that only the turbine casing and the generatorframe… … Figure 1 The machine had been in operation about one year during whichthe generator had given periodic trouble because of a tendency tovibrate when starting or whenever there was a sudden, large change ofload. However, the unit was running smoothly just before the accident.From the appearance of…
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