Modular rankine cycle vapor turbine
US4871295A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 13, 1985 |
| Grant date | Oct 3, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 13, 2005 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF01K7/165
- WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A Rankine cycle power plant includes a plurality of vapor turbine modules, each having a shaft rotatably mounted in a housing, and a pair of axially spaced discs coupled together and mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith. Axial flow turbine blades are mounted on the periphery of each disc such that the blades on one disc are spaced from the blades on the other disc thus defining an annular space in the housing within which a circular nozzle ring is located, the ring having a plurality of nozzles that open toward the blades on each disc for directing vapor in opposite axial directions into the blades on each disc.
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