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

• 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]