The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 43
case of subdivision into stages,is an early design, and has a larger number of wheels than fuller experiencehas shown to be desirable; and, except in marine service, the idea ofdividing the turbine into separate sections has generally been given up.As in other lines of machinery, the tendency in… … Fig. 20. — Section of a 24-stage Rateau Turbine, in three steps and two cylinders;500 horse-power at 2400 r.p.m.; mean diameter of vane rings, 20 in. to 33 in.;vane velocity, from 220 to 345 ft. per sec.
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