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The steam-engine and other heat-motors (1909)

Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 483

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s evident that at low powers the water i consumption will be excessive when compared to that at high ones > of the same machine. t Fig. 241. The turbine-blade may be sketched in if we have thevelocity of entrance AB, the peripheral velocity CB, and the bL de-angle J. For AC will be the angle of… … Figs. 241 and 242. (From Thomas Steam-turbines.) SUPERHEATED STEAM AND STEAM-TURBINES. 463 absolute velocity of departure, as DE = CB. For a series of buckets,as in the Curtis turbine, where AB represents the initial velocityand NP the final velocity a diagram similar to Fig. 179 may bedrawn. In…

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