Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 627
of the cylinder or casing.As in the Westinghouse-Parsons type, the function of thestationary blades is to give direction to the flow of steam. 614 Steam Engineering Fig. 255 illustrates one stage of a 500 K. W. turbine incourse of construction. It will be observed that there arethree wheels^ and… … Fig. 255500 k. w. curtis steam turbine in course of construction position. The illustration in Fig. 255 shows the lower orlast stage. The clearance between the revolving and sta-tionary blades is from ^^ to iV in., thus reducing thewasteage of steam to a very low percentage. The diametersof the…
