Thermodynamics of the steam-engine and other heat-engines (1898)
Peabody, Cecil Hobart, 1855-1934 · New York, Wiley · leaf 437
or buckets to receive the jet of steam froma nozzle set at an angle. The figure shows only one nozzle, 426 THERMODYNAMICS OF THE STEAM-ENGINE. but a number may be used, the wheel in question having four.Three of the nozzles have a diameter of 0.138 of an inch atthe throat and one a diameter of… … PLAN Fig. 83. at the exit. The wheel runs at approximately 24,000 revolu-tions per minute, and as it has a diameter of about five inchesat the middle of the buckets, their velocity is about 30,000feet per minute or 500 feet per second. The velocity of steamflowing from a pressure of 125 pounds by…
Thermodynamics · Steam-engines · Heat-engines
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