Stacked steampath and grooved bucket wheels for steam turbines

The steampath for a steam turbine includes stacked stator rings each mounting inwardly directed nozzles and stacked rotor wheels each mounting outwardly directed buckets mounting blades. By alternately stacking the stator rings and rotor wheels, the nozzles and buckets of the various stages are inte...

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Hauptverfasser: Sullivan, Christopher Walter, Bracken, Robert James, Simkins, Jeffrey Robert, Swan, Stephen Roger, Fitts, David Orus, Korzun, Ronald Wayne, Murphy, John Thomas
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The steampath for a steam turbine includes stacked stator rings each mounting inwardly directed nozzles and stacked rotor wheels each mounting outwardly directed buckets mounting blades. By alternately stacking the stator rings and rotor wheels, the nozzles and buckets of the various stages are interdigitated to form a steampath. Each bucket includes a blade and a root received in a generally complementary shaped groove on a wheel.