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Steam Turbine
Steam turbine convert a part of the energy of the steam evidenced by high
temperature and pressure into mechanical power-in turn electrical power
The steam from the boiler is expanded in a nozzle, resulting in the emission of
a high velocity jet. This jet of steam impinges on the moving vanes or blades,
mounted on a shaft. Here it undergoes a change of direction of motion which
gives rise to a change in momentum and therefore a force.
The motive power in a steam turbine is obtained by the rate of change in
momentum of a high velocity jet of steam impinging on a curved blade which
is free to rotate.
The conversion of energy in the blades takes place by impulse, reaction or
impulse reaction principle.
Steam turbines are available in a few kW(as prime mover) to 1500 MW
Impulse turbine are used for capacity up to
Steam, Gas and Hydraulic Turbines
The working substance differs for different types of turbines.
Steam turbines are axial flow machines (radial steam turbines are rarely
used) whereas gas turbines and hydraulic turbines of both axial and radial
flow type are used based on applications.
The pressure of working medium used in steam turbines is very high,
whereas the temperature of working medium used is gas turbine is high
comparatively.
The pressure and temperature of working medium in hydraulic turbines is
lower than steam turbines.
Steam turbines of 1300 MW single units are available whereas largest gas
turbines unit is 530 MWand 815 MW
Steam Turbine Classification
Steam turbines can be classified in several different ways:
1. By action of steam
• Impulse or reaction.
2. By steam supply and exhaust conditions
• Condensing, or Non-condensing (back pressure),
3. By Pressure
• Low pressure (Up to 2 ata), Medium pressure (2 to 40 ata), High pressure (40
to 170 ata), Very high pressure (170 to 220 ata), Supercritical (Above 225
ata),
4. By number of stages :
• Single stage or Multistage ( LP, IP, HP)
5. By direction of steam flow:
• Axial flow, Radial flow or Tangential flow
6. According to use in industry : Stationary or mobile (non stationary)
7. By method of governing
Throttle governed or nozzle governed or by pass governed
8. By method of compounding: Velocity compounded, pressure compounded or
pressure-velocity compounded
Steam Turbine Stage
A turbine stage consists of stationary stator row (guide vanes
or nozzle ring) and rotating rotor row.
In the guide vanes high pressure, high temperature steam is
expanded resulting in high
The guide vanes direct the flow to the rotor velocity
The blades at an appropriate angle.
In the rotor, the flow direction is changed and
kinetic energy of the working fluid is absorbed by
the rotor shaft producing mechanical energy
Types of Steam Turbine
Impulse turbine Reaction turbine
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Impulse turbine Reaction turbine
• Process of complete • Pressure drop with
expansion of steam takes generation of kinetic energy
place in stationary nozzle takes place in the moving as
and the velocity energy is well as fixed blades
converted into mechanical progressively.
work on the turbine work
turbine blades.
Types of Steam Turbine
Impulse Reaction Turbine
Modern turbines are neither purely impulse
or reaction but a combination of both.
Pressure drop is effected partly in nozzles
and partly in moving blades which are so
designed that expansion of steam takes
place in them.
Flow Through Steam Turbine Stage
Distance through turbine(reaction
Distance through turbine(impuls turbine)
turbine)
Compounding of Steam Turbines
This is done to reduce the rotational speed of the impulse turbine to
practical limits.
Compounding is achieved by using more than one set of nozzles,
blades rotors in a series keyed to a common shaft; so that either the
steam pressure or the jet velocity is absorbed by the turbine in
stages.
Three main types of compounded impulse turbines are:
• a. Pressure compounded
• b. Velocity compounded
• c. Pressure and velocity compounded impulse turbines.
Pressure
compounding
Involves splitting up of the whole
pressure drop
into a series of smaller pressure
drops across several stages of
impulse
Turbine.
Velocity drop is achieved through many moving rows of blades instead of a single
row of moving blades. It consists of a nozzle or a set of nozzles and rows of
moving blades attached to the rotor or the wheel and rows of fixed blades
attached to the casing
Pressure velocity compounding
Comparison between Impulse &
Reaction Turbine
Impulse turbine Reaction turbine
An impulse turbine has fixed nozzles that Reaction turbine makes use of the reaction
orient the steam flow into high speed jets. force produced as the steam accelerates
Blade profile is symmetrical as no through the nozzles formed by the rotor
pressure drop takes place in the rotor Blades have aerofoil profile (convergent p
blades drop occurs partly in the rotor
Suitable for efficiently absorbing
Blades passage) since pressure
the high velocity and high
Efficient at the lower pressure stages
pressure
Steam pressure is constant across the Fine blade tip clearances are necessary due
blades and therefore fine tip clearances are to the pressure leakages
not necessary Inefficient at the high pressure stages
Efficiency is not maintained in the lower due to the pressure leakages around
pressure stages (high velocity cannot be the blade tips
achieved in steam for the lower pressure
stages) Fine tip clearances can cause damage to
the tips of the blades
Losses in Steam Turbine
Profile loss: Due to formation of boundary layer on blade surfaces. Profile loss is a
boundary layer phenomenon and therefore subject to factors that influence boundary layer
development. These factors are Reynolds number, surface roughness, exit Mach number and
trailing edge thickness.
Secondary loss: Due to friction on the casing wall and on the blade root and tip. It
is a boundary layer effect and dependent upon the same considerations as those of profile
loss.
Tip leakage loss: Due to steam passing through the small clearances required
between the moving tip and casing or between the moving blade tip and rotating shaft. The
extend of leakage depends on the whether the turbine is impulse or reaction. Due to pressure
drop in moving blades of reaction turbine they are more
prone to leakages.
Disc windage loss: Due to surface friction created on the discs of an impulse
turbine as the disc rotates in steam atmosphere. The result is the forfeiture of shaft power for
an increase in kinetic energy and heat energy of steam
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Lacing wire loss: Due to passage blockage created by the presence of lacing wires
in long blade of LP Stages.
Wetness loss: Due to moisture entrained in the low pressure steam at the exit of LP turbine.
The loss is a combination of two effects; firstly, reduction in efficiency due to absorption of
energy by the water droplets and secondly, erosion of final moving blades leading edges.
Annulus loss: Due to significant amount of diffusion between adjacent stages or
where wall cavities occur between the fixed and moving blades. The extent of loss
is greatly reduced at high annulus area ratios (inlet/outlet) if the expansion of the
steam is controlled by a flared casing wall.
Leaving loss: Due to kinetic energy available at the steam leaving from the last
stage of LP turbine. In practice steam does slow down after leaving the last blade,
but through the conversion of its kinetic energy to flow friction losses.
Partial admission loss: Due to partial filling of steam, flow between the blades is
considerably accelerated causing a loss in power.
TURBINE
• FEATURES OF TURBINES
We shall consider steam as the working fluid
Single stage or Multistage
Axial or Radial turbines
Atmospheric discharge or discharge below atmosphere in condenser
Impulse/and Reaction turbine
• Impulse Turbines
Impulse turbines (single-rotor or multi-rotor) are simple stages of the
turbines. Here the impulse blades are attached to the shaft. Impulse blades
can be recognized by their shape. They are usually symmetrical and have
entrance and exit angles respectively, around 20 ° . Because they are
usually used in the entrance high-pressure stages of a steam turbine, when
the specific volume of steam is low and requires much smaller flow than at
lower pressures, the impulse blades are short and have constant cross
sections
IMPULSE TURBINE
Blade efficiency or Diagram efficiency or
Utilization factor is given by
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The maximum value of blade efficiency
For equiangular blades
If the friction over blade surface is neglected
Compounding in Impulse Turbine
• If high velocity of steam is allowed to flow through one row of moving
blades, it produces a rotor speed of about 30000 rpm which is too high for
practical use.
• It is therefore essential to incorporate some improvements for practical use
and also to achieve high performance. This is possible by making use of
more than one set of nozzles, and rotors, in a series, keyed to the shaft so
that either the steam pressure or the jet velocity is absorbed by the turbine
in stages. This is called compounding. Two types of compounding can be
accomplished: (a) velocity compounding and (b) pressure compounding
Velocity And Pressure Compounding
Stage Efficiency and Reheat factor
The Thermodynamic effect on the turbine efficiency can be understood by
considering a number of stages between two stages as shown in Figure
Velocity Triangles
The three velocity vectors namely, blade speed, absolute velocity
and relative velocity in relation to the rotor are used to form a
triangle called velocity triangle.
Velocity triangles are used to illustrate the flow in the bladings of
turbo machinery.
Changes in the flow direction and velocity are easy to understand
with the help of the velocity triangles.
Note that the velocity triangles are drawn for the inlet and outlet of
the rotor at certain radii.
Steam Turbine Blade Terminology
Velocity triangle
Inlet Velocity Triangles Outlet Velocity Triangles
Combined velocity triangle
Work Done – Impulse Steam Turbine
If the blade is symmetrical then β1 = β2 and neglecting frictional effects of the
blades on the steam, W1 = W2.
In actual case, the relative velocity is reduced by friction and expressed by a blade
velocity coefficient k.
Thus k = W2/W1
From Euler’s equation, work done by the steam is given by;
Wt = U(Vw1 ± Vw2) (1)
Since Vw2 is in the negative r direction, the work done per unit mass flow is given by,
Wt = U(Vw1+Vw2) (2)
If Va1 ≠ Va2, there will an axial thrust in the flow direction. Assume that Va is constant then,
Wt = UVa (tanα1+ tanα2) (3)
W UV (t β + t β ) (4)
Wt = UVa tanβ1+ tanβ2) Equation (4) is often referred to as the diagram work per unit mass flow and
hence the diagram efficiency is defined as
Work Done – Impulse Steam Turbine
Degree of reaction
Degree of reaction is a parameter that describes the relation
between the energy transfer due to the static pressure change
and the energy transfer due to dynamic pressure change.
Degree of reaction is defined as the ratio of static pressure
drop in the rotor to the static pressure drop in the stage. It is
also defined as the ratio of static enthalpy drop in the rotor to
the static enthalpy drop in the stage
Degree of reaction
Zero reaction stage
Let us first discuss the special
case of zero reaction. According
to the definition
of reaction, When Λ = 0, equation
(upper) reveals that h1 = h2 and
equation (lower) that
β1 = β2.
Fifty percent reaction stage
From equation (16) for Λ = 0.5 α1
= β2 and the velocity diagram is
symmetrical Because of
symmetrical. symmetry, it is also
clear that α2 = β1. For Λ=1/2,
the enthalpy drop in the nozzle
row equals the enthalpy drop in
the rotor.
h0 - h1 = h1 - h2
Blade Height in Axial Flow turbine
The continuity equation m = ρAV may be used to find the blade
height ‘h’. The annular area of flow = πDh. Thus the mass
flow rate through an axial flow turbine is
Blade height will increase in the direction of flow in a turbine
and decrease in the direction of flow in a compressor.
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