Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2019
Date 22-Nov
Volume 223
Issue 4,626
Page 799
Category Turbine
Part 20
Title Steam Turbines Large and Miniature. More on nozzle design
Author Mike Tilby
Notes Explores the technology, history and modelling of steam turbines. More on nozzle design, Victorian and Edwardian manufacturing methods, early machine tool operators, George Blackwood (1867-1938), machine bay in Turbinia Works of Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co., about 1910, nozzles and steam flow rate, calculation of mass flow rate, measures of flow rate, units of measurement, rate of steam consumption, critical pressure, nozzle area, calculation of volume flow rate, output pressure below critical pressure, flow rate when outlet pressure is below the critical pressure, flow rate when outlet pressure is above the critical pressure, friction, previous nozzle sizing guidelines, divergent section of a C-D nozzle, references