Turbomachinery Educational Programs
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SoftInWay presents new course Steam Turbine Fundamentals for mechanical engineers aspiring
to enhance their understanding of steam turbine basics and find new,
more accurate, and cost-saving technical solutions.
The highlights of the program include the fundamentals of thermodynamics,
gas dynamics, structural analysis and basics of steam turbines and their elements.
This comprehensive course gives an in-depth insight into turbine engineering,
starting from general data like turbine classification and layouts, and ending
with tertiary components design.
By the end of the course, the participants will have the knowledge
to successfully carry out steam turbine design and operation tasks.
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“A most useful and interesting educational course backed up by excellent
course text with helpful examples. The course content covered all of the
basic steam turbine fundamentals and was delivered at a pace that allowed
the information to be digested ensuring a full understanding. The lecturers
were extremely helpful and were more than willing to answer any questions.
Overall a very good insight into steam turbine fundamentals."
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Nathan Abbott MEng (Hons) AMIMechE
Design Engineer - Product Development
Dresser-Rand Company Limited
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If you want more information on the courses we offer, please contact us via info@softinway.com .
Steam Turbine Fundamentals
Training Course Syllabus
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1. Steam turbine designs. Fundamental turbine stage parameters.
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Basic steam turbine designs and cycles consideration. Introduction to turbine gas dynamics. Turbine
stage and cascade: definitions, dimensions. Transformation of energy through turbine stage: impulse
and reactive turbines, velocity triangles, stage dimensionless parameters, Rateau and Curtis stages.
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2. Initial turbine sizing. Multistage turbines
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Preliminary design: selection of optimal number of stages and diameters. Design with inverse task.
Turbine efficiency and energy losses. Main challenges in design process.
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3. Turbine optimization and detailed design
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Direct task: meanline (1D) turbine calculation, streamline (2D) calculation, distributions of parameters
spanwise, cylindrical and twisted blades: effects on turbine performance, mechanical and
thermodynamic design. Optimisation methods, principles and processes. Off design turbine
performance prediction, turbine operating modes.
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4. Profiling
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Potential flow in blade-to-blade channel. Basic profiling knowledge’s, Pritchard profiling model.
Subsonic and supersonic profiles, deviation angle Boundary layer. Laminar and turbulent flow modes.
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5. Blade design
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3D blade design: cylindrical and twisted blades. Special blade design effects: lean, sweep. Structural
analysis. Elements of rotor and stator: shrouds, diaphragms etc.
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6. Tertiary components
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Sealing systems. Moisture separation and extraction, wet steam turbine special features. Steam
extractions and additions. Steam admission types. Diaphragm design and balancing holes, axial loads.
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Note: each section includes exercises to ensure the information
is learnt well and can be effectively applied to engineering tasks.
The tools used: Mollier diagram, scientific calculator, AxSTREAM.
The above schedule and topics can be customized to fulfill the participants’ requirements.
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