Steam Turbines / A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers

by Hubert E. Collins

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INDEX

• Acceleration, rate of, [147]
• Adjustment, axial, [65]
  • making, [66]
• Air-pump, examining, [163]
• Allis-Chalmers Co. steam turbine, [41]
• Auxiliaries, [2], [154]
  • special, [165]
• Auxiliary plant for consumption test, [137]
  • spring on governor dome, [28]
• Axial adjustment, [65]

• Baffler, [36]
  • functions, [39]
• Bearings, main, [69]
• 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]
• Generator, [53]
• Glands, examination for scale, [104]
  • packing, [71], [77]
  • regulation, [148]
• Governor, Allis-Chalmers turbine, [48]
  • Curtis turbine, [27], [31]
  • improved, Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, [83]
  • -rods, adjusting, [35]
  • safety-stop, [86]
  • Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, [80]
• Grinding, [38]
• Guide-bearing, lower, [9]
• Gump, Walter B., [172]