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Steam Turbines · Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins — chapter 15 of 18 · ~154 words · public domain

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Blades, construction details, 44 inspecting, 104

Blading, Allis-Chalmers turbine, 48 Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, 59, 92

Blueprints, studying, 11

Buckets, moving, 14 stationary, 14

Bushings, 36

Carbon packing, 19 ring, 20

Central gravity oiling system, 111

Circulating pump fails to meet guarantee, 172

Clearance, 15, 150 adjusting, 18 between moving and stationary buckets, 4 gages, 17 measuring, 18 radial, 63

Comma lashing, 95

Condensers, 108, 131 jet, 154

Conditions for successful operation, 105

Cooling water supply limited, 177

Coupling, 127

Cover-plate, 4 -plate, lowering, 9

Curtis turbine, 11 turbine in practice, 1 setting valves, 31, 32

De Laval turbines, 118

Draining system, 105

Dummy leakage, 115 pistons, 63, 65 rings, 43, 113, 114

Equalizing pipes, 64

Exhaust end of turbine, 107 pipe, 107

Expanding nozzles, 14

Feed-pipes, 164

Flow, rate, 38

Foundation drawings, 2 rings, 44, 46

Fourth-stage wheel, 14

Franklin, Thomas, 112, 137, 154

Gages, calibrating and adjusting, 169 clearance, 17 for test work, 165

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