Publisher's Synopsis
This book enables you to select low cost, high quality steam turbines quickly and easily. A must for plant engineers looking to stay competitive in today's intense global marketplace., Heinz P. Bloch's "Practical Guide to Steam Turbine Technology" takes you step-by-step through the art of designing and selecting more reliable, cost-efficient turbomachinery. It includes everything you need to master steam turbine technology - from basic types and controls to the Elliot Shortcut selection method for multivalve, multistage systems. Here, you get fingertip access to: critical data on casing design; mechanical drive bearings; impulse and reaction turbine rotors; blade design; governors and control systems; couplings; rotor dynamics; reaction vs. impulse steam turbines; performance degradation; transmission elements; shortcut graphical selection methods; and more.
