Abstract: A steam turbine generator power plant which includes a main steam bypass path and an auxiliary steam bypass path which bypasses the high pressure turbine. The auxiliary bypass path includes a steam jet compressor which functions to pump up the pressure at the high pressure turbine exhaust to a value compatible with discharge into the main bypass path, and does so in response to measurement of the high pressure turbine output temperature.

Abstract: Steam power plant, including a steam turbine having a high pressure section with an exhaust steam outlet, a steam generator having a live steam side connected upstream of the high pressure section of the steam turbine, the steam generator having a combustion chamber and a convection space formed therein, an intermediate superheater heating surface having an outlet and having an inlet being connected to the exhaust steam outlet of the high pressure section of the steam turbine, a device for applying combustion air to the combustion chamber of the steam generator, and a device disposed at the outlet of the intermediate superheater heating surface for regulating steam temperature thereat, the regulating device including a nozzle terminating in the convection space of the steam generator between the combustion chamber and the intermediate superheater heating surface.

Abstract: A bypass system for a steam turbine wherein the energy level of the steam bypassed around the intermediate pressure and low pressure turbines is modified by introduction of cooling water. The amount of water introduced is adaptively varied as a function of the enthalpy of the bypassed steam as measured by a sensor in the steam path.

Abstract: A DEH (digital electrohydraulic) control system for a steam turbine generator having a steam bypass system. The turbine system includes a high pressure turbine having throttle and governor steam admission valves as well as an intermediate pressure turbine having stop and interceptor steam admission valves. The turbine is brought on line by initially controlling steam admission into the intermediate pressure turbine by modulating the interceptor valve in response to a speed error signal generated as a result of the difference between actual and a predetermined reference speed. During this initial control the throttle valve remains in a closed position. When the turbine speed has attained a preset value such as half of synchronous speed, the interceptor valve is held at the same position it was in when the preset speed was attained and the throttle valve is controllably open in response to the same speed error signal.

Abstract: In a steam turbine used with a power plant operated under variable pressure of the steam which is fed to the turbine through control valves, the control apparatus is arranged to control the control valves according to a signal obtained by adding an opening set signal with a compensation signal which is determined in dependence on a difference between a turbine stage steam pressure signal and a signal derived by multiplying the opening set signal with a ratio of the actual value of the control valve inlet steam pressure to a rated value thereof.

Abstract: A bypass system for a steam turbine wherein the temperature of the steam bypassed around the high pressure turbine is accurately controlled by measuring the inlet and outlet temperatures of the boiler reheater and generating an adaptive set point. The set point value is used to govern operation of a spray valve which admits cooling water to the bypass steam path.

Abstract: A control system for a steam turbine operated with a steam bypass system. In the control system, bypass valve control is according to setpoints generated as a function of a combined flow reference (CFR) signal. The CFR signal is representative of boiler outlet flow under all turbine operating phases and is generated by multiplying the sum of the steam admission control valve flow demand and the high pressure bypass flow demand by boiler pressure. An actual load demand (ALD) signal indicative of the turbine demand for steam is produced from the product of the steam admission control valve flow demand and boiler pressure, and is used for intercept valve control. Excessive steam flow in the lower pressure bypass subsystem is prevented by providing an override for the normal control to prevent high heat impact to the condenser and latter stages of the turbine high pressure section.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for regulating a steam turbine comprising at least one resuperheater arranged between a high pressure section and a low pressure section and in which a reference-actual valve comparison of the rotational speed is performed to produce an adjustment signal derived from the reference-value actual-value difference which is delivered to a regulation valve arrangement and wherein a delayed feedback signal is derived from only one vapor pressure high pressure side measuring pressure, between the inlet valves of the high pressure section and the inlet of the resuperheater, and which at least approximately decreases to null during steady-state operation; and said signal is coupled into the regulation circuit opposite to the adjustment signal.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for improving the operational efficiency of a steam turbine power plant by governing the adjustment of the throttle steam pressure of a steam turbine at a desired power plant output demand value. In the preferred embodiment, the impulse chamber pressure of a high pressure section of the steam turbine is measured as a representation of the steam flow through the steam turbine. At times during the operation of the plant at the desired output demand value, the throttle pressure is perturbed. The impulse chamber pressure is measured before and after the perturbations of the throttle pressure. Because changing thermodynamic conditions may occur possibly as a result of the perturbations and provide an erroneous representation of the steam flow through the turbine, the impulse chamber pressure measurements are compensated for determined measurable thermodynamic conditions in the steam turbine.

Abstract: The power and speed control device for a turbo-generator set of the invention has a generator, a turbine, and a governing valve with a positioning control input, for regulating steam fed to the turbine. The device includes a turbine speed controller, a turbine power controller, a maximum selection circuit, a minimum selection circuit, a summing stage, and a device for supplying a constant reference value to the input of the summing stage. The controllers are connected to the maximum selection circuit and the speed controller is additionally connected to the summing stage. The summing stage is connected to the minimum selection circuit, the maximum selection circuit is connected to the minimum selection circuit, and the minimum selection circuit is fed to the positioning control input of the governing valve.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for regulating a steam turbine comprising at least one resuperheater arranged between a high pressure section and a low pressure section and in which a reference-actual value comparison of the rotational speed is performed to produce an adjustment signal derived from the reference value actual-value difference which is delivered from the difference between the impeller casing pressure of the high pressure section and the output pressure of the resuperheater which feedback signal is coupled into the regulation circuit opposite to the adjustment signal.

Abstract: A desuperheater is disposed in a steam supply line supplying superheated steam to a shell and tube reheater.

Abstract: An automatic control system enabling comprehensive operation of a reheat steam turbine with sliding or constant pressure boilers. The control system includes an HP control valve for regulating steam flow to the high-pressure turbine according to load and speed demands, an intercept valve for regulating steam flow to the low-pressure turbine and for reheater pressure control, and a bypass flow system for bypassing excess boiler steam during periods of low loading. The bypass system includes a high-pressure bypass sub-system and a low-pressure bypass sub-system, each having a flow control valve and provision for desuperheating the steam. A signal indicative of actual load demand (ALD) and proportional to the product of boiler pressure and main control valve flow demand is produced. From the ALD signal, reference functions are generated to effect control of the bypass valves.

Abstract: In a system and method for automatically starting, synchronizing and operating a steam turbine, turbine control including valve position limiting and means for generating a reference control signal representative of desired turbine operation, the reference control signal being limited corresponding to the valve position limit. The reference signal is limited by calculated valve position limits, such that the reference signal is not permitted to rise above such limits. Desired system changes result in reference signal changes which are more quickly reflected in valve position changes, thereby enabling improved system response.

Abstract: An electronic system for operating a nuclear steam turbine power plant including a cycle steam reheater controller to control the heat transfer operation in a cycle steam reheater according to the steam and metal temperatures measured in one or more low pressure turbine sections, is disclosed. The steam and metal temperatures are closed-loop controlled as a function of the low pressure turbine design operational limitations. The reheater controller controls dual reheaters, each employing one or more heating sections which reheat cycle steam flowing therethrough to one or more low pressure turbine sections with split side entry steam inlet ports.

Abstract: The invention concerns a feedback control method for controlling the starting of a steam turbine unit comprising a reheater, a turbine by-pass system consisting of a HP-by-pass system and a LP-by-pass system, at least one regulating valve for the HP-by-pass system, at least one regulating valve for the LP-by-pass system, at least one inlet valve for the HP-turbine, at least one intercept valve for the MP/LP-turbine and a governing device to regulate the turbine speed or power output, according to which method during no-load and low-load operation and up to a predetermined partial load the pressure within the reheater is regulated by a first feedback control device with the LP-by-pass regulating valve acting as positioning element in such manner that a greater quantity of steam will flow through the HP-turbine than through the MP-turbine, and a smaller quantity of steam through the HP-by-pass system than through the LP-by-pass system, whereby a maximum permissible HP-exhaust steam temperature will not be excee

Abstract: Unnecessary fast valving action for load loss protection in a steam turbine generator system induced by partial transducer failure is minimized by the disclosedmethods and apparatus. Upon the occurrence of a mismatch between reheat pressure and electrical output, the interceptor valve is closed momentarily to interrupt the flow of steam to the low-pressure turbine and prevent overspeed. The valve cannot be closed again for a predetermined interval. If the mismatch is not corrected by the one fast valving action, a transducer has failed and further closing of the interceptor valve, except for a full load loss, is precluded until corrective action is taken. The faulty transducer is singled-out by comparing one of the transducer signals with the impulse pressure which is also an indication of the actual operating level of the turbine.

Abstract: Improvements in a control system which maintains both the speed and the extraction pressure of an extraction type steam turbine at respective set point values by adjusting both the high pressure admission valve and the low pressure stage admission valve. Such systems are characterized by the fact that opening of the high pressure valve tends to increase both speed (for a given load) and extraction pressure (for a given extraction load); whereas opening of the low pressure valve tends to increase speed but decrease extraction pressure. The high pressure valve is positioned according to an additive function of speed and pressure errors; and the low pressure valve is positioned according to a subtractive function f(E.sub.s - E.sub.p) of such errors. The improvement resides in bounding one error signal component which influences one of the valves to a value which, for any magnitude of the other error signal, corresponds to the saturation point or physical limit of the other valve.

Abstract: An electric power plant having dual turbine-generators and a steam source which includes a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor. Each turbine includes a high pressure portion driven by superheat steam and a lower pressure portion driven by reheat steam. A turbine bypass system permits minimum flows of superheat and reheat steam from the source at times when the turbines require flows of such steam that are less than the minimum flows. Before it is reheated, steam that has passed through the high pressure portions and their bypass lines drives auxiliary steam turbines that rotate means for propelling the coolant gas through the reactor. During acceleration of a turbine-generator to its synchronous speed, one of the steam flows through its high and lower pressure portions is varied to govern the shaft speed, while the other flow is held relatively constant, that one of the flows which is varied being determined by the shaft speed.

Abstract: A power plant including dual steam turbine-generators connected to pass superheat and reheat steam from a steam generator which derives heat from the coolant gas of a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor. Associated with each turbine is a bypass line to conduct superheat steam in parallel with a high pressure turbine portion, and a bypass line to conduct superheat steam in parallel with a lower pressure turbine portion. Auxiliary steam turbines pass a portion of the steam flow to the reheater of the steam generator and drive gas blowers which circulate the coolant gas through the reactor and the steam source. Apparatus and method are disclosed for loading or unloading a turbine-generator while the other produces a steady power output. During such loading or unloading, the steam flows through the turbine portions are coordinated with the steam flows through the bypass lines for protection of the steam generator, and the pressure of reheated steam is regulated for improved performance of the gas blowers.

Abstract: An electric power plant having a cross compound steam turbine and a steam source that includes a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor. The steam turbine includes high and intermediate-pressure portions which drive a first generating means, and a low-pressure portion which drives a second generating means. The steam source supplies superheat steam to the high-pressure turbine portion, and an associated bypass permits the superheat steam to flow from the source to the exhaust of the high-pressure portion. The intermediate and low-pressure portions use reheat steam; an associated bypass permits reheat steam to flow from the source to the low-pressure exhaust. An auxiliary turbine driven by steam exhausted from the high-pressure portion and its bypass drives a gas blower to propel the coolant gas through the reactor.

Abstract: An electric power plant having dual turbine-generators connected to a steam source that includes a high temperature gas cooled nuclear reactor. Each turbine comprises a high pressure portion operated by superheat steam and an intermediate-low pressure portion operated by reheat steam; a bypass line is connected across each turbine portion to permit a desired minimum flow of steam from the source at times when the combined flow of steam through the turbine is less than the minimum. Coolant gas is propelled through the reactor by a circulator which is driven by an auxiliary turbine which uses steam exhausted from the high pressure portions and their bypass lines. The pressure of the reheat steam is controlled by a single proportional-plus-integral controller which governs the steam flow through the bypass lines associated with the intermediate-low pressure portions.

Abstract: As a improved way of effecting fast valving of turbines of power system steam-electric generating units for the purpose of improving the stability of power transmission over transmission circuits to which their generators make connection, when stability is threatened by line faults and certain other stability endangering events, the heretofore employed and/or advocated practice of automatically closing intercept valves at fastest available closing speed in response to a fast valving signal, and thereafter automatically fully reopening them in a matter of seconds, is modified by providing to reopen the valves only partially to and thereafter retain them at a preset partially open position.For best results the process of what can be termed sustained partial reopening is so effected as to result in its completion within a fraction of a second following the peak of the first forward swing of the generator rotor.

Abstract: Improvements in or relating to a reheating steam plant comprising a main steam line connecting a heater to a higher pressure turbine through regulating valves, and a reheated steam line connecting the higher pressure turbine to an intermediate pressure turbine through a reheater, a reheating stop valve and an intermediate stop valve. The improvements consist in the provision of a branch line branching off from the main steam line at a point disposed on the up-stream side of the regulating valves and connected to the reheated steam line at a point interposed between the intermediate stop valve and the intermediate pressure turbine, an adjusting valve mounted in the branching line, and a control for the adjusting valve. The adjusting valve is adapted to be opened when the turbine is under an overload so as to introduce to the intermediate pressure turbine a portion of the steam supplied from the heater.

Abstract: As a improved way of effecting fast valving of turbines of power system steam-electric generating units for the purpose of improving the stability of power transmission over transmission circuits to which their generators make connection, when stability is threatened by line faults and certain other stability endangering events, the heretofore employed and/or advocated practice of automatically closing intercept valves at fastest available closing speed in response to a fast valving signal, and thereafter automatically fully reopening them in a matter of seconds, is modified by providing to reopen the valves only partially to and thereafter retain them at a preset partially open position.For best results the process of what can be termed sustained partial reopening is so effected as to result in its completion within a fraction of a second following the peak of the first forward swing of the generator rotor.