Moisture separation in turbine interstage steam flow
CA 2068148 A1 · Owner: General Electric Company · Inventors: Black, James Charles
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Any moisture present in a steam flow outletting from a high pressure steam turbine and before that flow is passed to the inlet of a low pressure turbine, is removed by passing the flow through a high velocity separator, this separator being a type in which at entry thereto vanes cause vortex-like swirling of the steam flow so that moisture therein is centrifuged against an inner wall surface of a separator housing from thence being carried forward in flow direction to outlet from the housing via a skimmer slot in the housing wall located intermediate the housing ends. The steam flow from which the moisture has been separated, passes to an outlet end of the housing but before making its exit …
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- Filed May 7, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 7, 2012.
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