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Steam Turbines · Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins — chapter 18 of 18 · ~141 words · public domain

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Step-bearing, lowering to examine, 8 -bearing screw, 18 -blocks, 4 -lubricant, 4 -pressure, 38 -supporting screw, 4 -water, flow, 38

Stopping turbine, 56

Sub-base, 8

Superheated steam, 105

Test loads, 141 necessary features, 163

Testing oil, 110 preparing turbine for, 145 steam turbine, 112, 137, 152

Thermometer, calibrating and testing, 169 oil, 125

Thrust-block, 118

Top block, 4

Troubles with steam turbine auxiliaries, 172

Turbine features, special, 127

Vacuum, 152 raising, 107 test, 135

Valve-gear, 83 -gear, mechanical, 22, 32 operation during consumption test, 138 overload, 28 relief, 31 importance, 159 setting in Curtis turbine, 31, 32 stage, 28,31

Vapor bound pumps, 178

Water, cooling, limited, 177 in oil, detecting, 122 -measurement readings, 148 pressure, 101 service, 126 importance, 119 tests of condenser, 133 used in glands, 57, 76

Westinghouse-Parsons steam turbine, 58

Wheels, 14 lower or fourth-stage, 14 position, 18

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