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In the impulse turbines the moving blades and nozzle are in series. In the reaction turbines, the blades are fixed.
The difference between impulse and reaction turbine goes here...... 1) In case of an impulse turbine the pressure remains same in the rotor or runners, but in case of reaction turbine the pressure decreases in runners as well as stators also. 2) In case of impulse turbine the pressure drop happens only in the nozzle part by means of its kinetic energy. In case of Reaction one the stators those are fixed to the diaphragm act as a nozzle.
Steam turbine is comprising of stages, number and size of the stages depands upon the break horse power of the turbine. The stage has set of moving and fixed blades. The moving blades are attached to the rotor while the stationary blades is called Diaphragm. The diaphragm guides the steam to glide over the moving blades for producing rotary motion.
Classifications of steam turbines: According to Principle: 1. Impulse Type 2. Reaction Type. According to Application: 1. Condensing 2. Non-condensing
there are stages, fixed blades on the turbine shell and rotating blades on the rotor. They are very close together sooo, because the steam enters at one end of the turbine it heats that area first and it expands the metal there faster than at the other end causing it to rub. if you heat it slowly the turbine casing and the rotor grow at ~ the same rate so the stages don't rub together. If you heat too quickly,by just admitting a high volume of steam, the rotor heats up to fast, because of it has less metal to heat up, it rubs the fixed blades. this is called going long (the rotor is longer than the tolerances between the fixed blades on the casing)
The thrust pads will be there at the front or non drive end of the turbine side....These are usually used to limit the axial displacement of the rotor( Means to minimize the movement of rotor axially in order to maintain the axial clearance between the moving blades and the fixed blades of steam turbine rotor).....
There are many more factors such as efficiency of the design, weight distribution etc.
In axial flow compressors, the primary purpose of IGVs (fixed or variable) is to guide the airflow onto the first stage rotor blades at an appropriate or required angle of attack.
Wind turbines are usually 100-120 m high above the ground.The height is usually fixed based on the diameter of the blades.But if the height increses the available wind power increases yielding more power.But the cost also increases.So based on the diameter of blades height is decided.usually for a 80m dia blades the height ranges between 100-120m
measurement of how much the turbine's case expands from its fixed point outward as it is heated
Horizontal axis wind turbines, modern wind turbines, vertical axis turbines.
Differential expansion means gap between fixed Blade & rotating blase of a turbine.. When steam enters into the turbine, rotor tends to expand towards generator side & casing tends to expand towards control valve side. If differential expansion increase then there is a possibility of reducing axial gap between rotor & fixed blades. When differential expansion is positive its means rotor expand more than the casing expansion. There is a limit upto +ve 5. If increases than +ve 5 it means we have to check front side tie rods status.