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Steam Power Plants English
Steam Power Plants English
BASIC KNOWLEDGE
Wout
4
5
Qout
Qin
Win
Rankine cycle, represented in T-s diagram
C
4
E
5
F
1
The larger GUNT steam power plants use a typical, industrial steam turbine as shown above. This is an impulse
turbine with a so-called 2C wheel (Curtis wheel). The
pressure energy of the steam is completely transformed
into kinetic energy by fixed nozzles (1). Kinetic energy is
transformed into mechanical work by changing the direction of the steam flow in the Curtis wheel (2). The rotor
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