Wet-Steam Turbines for Nuclear Power Plants presents a survey of modern wet-steam turbines, addressing both full-speed and half-speed units. This book explains in clear, but detailed language the design features of the world’s leading wet-steam turbine manufacturers, including the subtleties of operation of these complex components. It also gives readers comprehensive background on typical repairs and maintenance planning. Mainly addressing issues concerned to owners and operators of nuclear power plants, university professors and engineering students will benefit from the thorough review of nuclear wet-steam turbines. Discussions include turbines between 200 and 1,500 MW and greater, operated at nuclear power plants with light-water and heavy-water reactors, such as PWR, BWR, PHWR, CANDU, and their advanced modifications. These turbines are fed with saturated steam, and most of their stages work with wet steam.
While this book focuses on the understanding of turbine design, it also covers the peculiarities of operation, spotting possible imperfections, and the distinct advantages of refurbishing older turbines to gain increased output, greater reliability and efficiency. Readers will gain knowledge of design decisions by world’s main turbine producers: ALSTOM, General Electric, Hitachi, LMZ, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Skoda, Siemens, Toshiba and Turboatom, as well as possibilities for improvement of aging turbines currently in service. This is the first book in 20 years on this highly technical subject.
Contents of Wet-Steam Turbines for Nuclear Power Plants :
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
The Nuclear Power Industry at the Turn of the 21st Century
The Thermal Process in Wet-Steam Turbines
Design
Operation
Refurbishment
Appendices
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
Unit Conversion Table
Index
About the Author of Wet-Steam Turbines for Nuclear Power Plants :
Dr. Alexander Leyzerovich has more than 40 years of experience in analysis, research, and development for large steam-turbine power units, both serviced and newly designed. After graduating from Moscow Power Engineering Technological University as a mechanical engineer with a major in power steam turbine design, he worked as a leading specialist at the All-Russia Thermal Engineering Research Institute. There he earned his scientific degrees and advanced from engineer to a chief researcher. His field of responsibility and interests include cycling operation of steam-turbine power units, unsteady temperature and thermal-stress states of the main turbine design components at the transients, technological fundamentals of automated control, surveillance, and technical diagnostics, as well as information support for the operational personnel. For years, he was also engaged in research and development for wet-steam turbines of nuclear power plants. In 1994 he relocated to the USA, where he has worked as a power engineering consultant and contributed to U.S. professional periodicals. He is the author and coauthor of about 200 published papers and overviews in Russian and English and several professional books, including two-volume Large Power Steam Turbines: Design & Operation, published by PennWell in 1997.
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