Patent · US Expired

Steam power plant, especially nuclear power plant

US4245412A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 27, 1978
Grant dateJan 20, 1981
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Expiry dateFeb 27, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/6969
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Steam power plant having a steam line passing through a wall, and a valve disposed in the course of the steam line and formed with a housing, includes a plurality of additional valve fittings connected adjacent one another to the housing of the valve, each of the valve fittings having a smaller nominal diameter than that of the valve and having a respective housing joined to the valve housing and connected to respective additional lines downstream from the valve, the locations at which the valve housing and the respective housings of the valve fittings are joined having a bending resistance moment that is at least double the bending resistance moment of the additional lines.

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