Abstract: Apparatus for sealing a joint between two components of a fluid turbine comprises a member having a surface contour conforming to at least a portion of a first mateable surface of one component, a biasing element for urging the member against the first mateable surface and a relieved feature terminating in a second mateable surface of the other component so that portions of the first and second mateable surfaces may sealingly engage. The apparatus may be disposed in the radially inward portion of a turbine shell and the area around the member may be relieved to accommodate unequal circumferential expansion between the radially inner and outer portion of the shell while maintaining sealing engagement between the first and second mateable surfaces.

Abstract: A turbine/power transmission system using pressure fluid, i.e., steam to selectively drive one of a plurality of turbine wheels depending upon the power/torque output and rotary direction required of an output shaft.

Abstract: A low pressure double flow stream turbine is connected to a condenser and partition plates are disposed within the condenser and turbine to flow to two separate chambers and cooling water flows in series through tubes in the separate chambers producing different back pressures, the last row of rotating blades which discharge into the lower pressure chamber are longer than the last row of blades which discharge into the higher pressure chamber resulting in an improvement in the heat rate of the turbine.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump comprises a casing which has two volutes disposed substantially diametrically opposite each other in such a way that the end of the first volute is adjacent to the start of the second volute. The outer diameter of the casing approximates or equals the diameter of the first volute in the region of the end of the first volute. This contributes to compactness of the casing. The volutes surround a rotary impeller or a guide wheel which is installed in the casing downstream of the impeller. Each volute extends along an arc of at most 180 degrees. The casing can have one or more elongated channels extending from the end of the first volute, along the second volute, and to a common outlet nozzle for both volutes.

Abstract: The double volute casing of a centrifugal pump has a main portion which has first and second volutes extending along arcs of not more than 180 degrees. The outer diameter of the main portion equals or approximates the outer diameter of the end of the first volute, and such end is adjacent to the start of the second volute whose end communicates with an outlet nozzle of the main portion. The latter has two channels which flank the second volute and extend between the end of the first volute and the outlet nozzle. The inner sides of the channels are open and face the axial passage of the main portion. Such inner sides are sealed from the axial passage by tubular inserts which are installed in and are separably fastened to the main portion of the casing. The passage receives a single-suction or a double-suction impeller or a stationary guide wheel which is located downstream of the impeller. The main portion of the casing is a one-piece casting.

Abstract: A turbine impeller pump particularly for use in a geothermal pumping system has a casing with a hollow cylindrical stator or axle fixedly connected in the longitudinal axis thereof which stator or axle defines a flow passage for motive fluid and enables a rotor assembly to be rotatably mounted thereon. The rotor has spaced composite impellers which lie in assembled position in medially disposed pumping chambers in the casing having a suction inlet for fluid to be pumped and a discharge outlet for pumped fluid. The rotor further has first and second multi-stage axial flow driving assemblies disposed on opposite sides of the spaced composite impellers so that the motive fluid for driving the same can be passed to the respective adjacent composite impellers and delivered with the fluid being pumped.

Abstract: Wind wheel electric power generator apparatus is disclosed as including a housing rotatably mounted upon a vertically disposed support column. Primary and auxiliary funnel-type, venturi ducts are fixedly mounted upon the housing for capturing wind currents and for conducting the same to a bladed wheel adapted to be operatively connected with generator apparatus. Additional air flows are also conducted onto the bladed wheel, all of the air flows positively effecting rotation of the wheel in a cumulative manner. The auxiliary ducts are disposed at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the housing, and this feature, together with the rotatability of the housing and the ducts, permits capture of wind currents within a variable directional range.

Abstract: A ventilating suction and exhaust fan device of Plate type comprising a casing of cylindrical shape, a partition plate mounted within the casing and extending in a horizontal plane passing through a central axis of the casing and having a rectangular opening formed therein, a cylindrical impeller of Plate type rotatably mounted in said opening of the partition plate coaxially with respect to the casing, said impeller comprising at least one impeller section for exhaustion, at least one impeller section for suction and a central vertical partition disc disposed between said impeller sections, first hood means for preventing the impeller section for exhaustion from contacting the suction air, second hood means for preventing the impeller section for suction from contacting the exhaust air, and guide means for converting centrifugal flows generated by said impeller sections to axial flows.

Abstract: A ventilating suction and exhaust fan device of Sirocco type comprising a casing of cylindrical shape, a partition plate mounted within the casing and extending in a horizontal plane passing through a central axis of the casing and having a rectangular opening formed therein, a cylindrical impeller of Sirocco type rotatably mounted in said opening of the partition plate coaxially with respect to the casing, said impeller comprising a central vertical partition disc, a first cylindrical impeller section for exhaustion of air arranged on one side of the disc and a second cylindrical impeller section for suction of air arranged on the other side of the disc, first hood means for preventing the first impeller section from contacting the suction air, second hood means for preventing the second impeller section from contacting the exhaust air, and guide means for converting centrifugal flows generated by the impeller sections to axial flows.

Abstract: The present invention relates to magnetic support of the rotor structure in vacuum pumps, particularly turbomolecular pumps. This magnetic support eliminates the requirements for bearing lubricants, and the consequent degradation of the vacuum to be produced by lubricant vapors.

Abstract: A thermal turbomachine such as an axial flow steam turbine of the center intake opposite flow type includes an intake duct surrounding the rotor and which is delimited by a portion of the internal surface of an inner housing surrounding the rotor and by the juxtaposed surfaces of two rotationally symmetrical shells. In order to permit the shells to expand substantially unhindered in relation to the inner housing as a result of imposed thermal stresses and still provide a gastight seal between an internal surface portion of the inner housing and the peripheral portions of the shells the latter are pressed into a slidable sealing engagement with the former rather than rigidly attached to each other. According to one embodiment, the slidable sealing engagement between the parts is established by means of a groove provided on one part into which the other part is fitted.

Abstract: A fixing arrangement for a guide part of a fixed casing on a rotating mace whose rotor is supported by a concrete beam, is characterized in that the guide part is fixed to a plate applied against a lateral wall of the beam and is integral with trusses sunk in the mass of the beam. The invention applies, more particularly, to steam turbine exhaust chambers.

Abstract: A low pressure multi-stage axial flow steam turbine comprises an outer housing and an inner housing structure constituting a carrier for the rows of guide blading of the various stages. A steam inflow housing located within the inner housing structure forms the boundary of a crescent-shaped intake duct which surrounds and admits steam to the first stage guide blading which flows through the duct in the same direction as that in which the turbine rotor rotates, and the cross sectional area of the intake duct decreases progressively in the direction of steam flow therethrough such that the tangential components of the steam velocity conform to a predetermined function. The curvature of the intake duct at the inner periphery thereof increases progressively in the direction of steam flow therethrough such that the radial components of the steam velocity conform to a second predetermined function.

Abstract: Low pressure turbine installation comprising a casing, at least two groups of turbine stages mounted in said casing, each turbine stage having blades so arranged that a flow of steam passes through the respective turbine stages in contraflow manner, partition means in said casing for separating the opposed final stages of said turbine stages from each other, and steam exhausting means opened in the side walls of said casing in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of said turbine, said steam exhausting means being connected to condensers.

Abstract: A multi-shell high pressure split turbine of double flow construction having an outer shell and an axially split inner shell. The outer shell forms the outer housing. One side of this housing is detachable and joined to the remainder of the housing at a joint in a plane normal to the axis so that the inner shell and the rotor may be inserted from that side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving the performance of back-to-back turbocompressor or turbopump systems, or, more generally, of internal-separation energy separators. A helicoidal or spiral baffle is used to impart simultaneously a positive prerotation to the flow which is to be de-energized and a negative prerotation to the flow which is to be energized.