Recent technological advances in mechanical and aerodynamic design of the turbine steam path are resulting in higher reliability and efficiency. Historically, utility steam turbine design has been ...

The row of last-stage blades (LSBs) in a steam turbine’s low-pressure (LP) section is a key element of the turbine’s design because it defines the machine’s overall performance, dimensions, and number ...

ASME’s latest revision of its Recommended Practices for the Prevention of Water Damage to Steam Turbines Used for Electric Power Generation: Fossil-Fuel Plants, ASME TDP-1-2006, contains much ...

GE Steam Power has delivered the first Arabelle steam turbine module for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant under construction in Turkey. Manufactured at its factory in Belfort, France, the turbine module ...

Steam turbines are at the heart of all manner of industrial machinery, particularly that used for power generation. [Integza] decided he needed to better understand this technology, and decided to ...

Over the last 20 years, the power industry has experienced a shift in steam turbine (ST) maintenance strategies driven by two compounding factors. The first factor has become the overwhelming task of ...

All conventional power sources—from coal and gas plants to high-tech nuclear fission and potential future nuclear fusion reactors—boil down to the same basic thing: heating water into steam to spin a ...

Steam turbines have helped drive a large chunk of our technological development over the last century or so, and they’ll always make for interesting DIY. [Hyperspace Pirate] built a small turbine and ...