THERMAL SCIENCE

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Kezhen Huang

,

Lin Cai

,

Jianshu Gao

,

Zhuo Liu

,

Xinggang Yu

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF CONDENSING FLOW OF LOW PRESSURE STEAM TURBINE AT DIFFERENT FLOW RATE CONDITIONS

ABSTRACT
The numerical investigation on the wet steam flow in the last two stages of a 1000 MW fossil-fired low pressure steam turbine is presented in this paper. The non-equilibrium model via the classical nucleation theory is employed to simulate the condensing flow of the wet steam. The characteristics of the flow filed from design condition to low volume flow condition are calculated and the static performance of last stage moving blade is also obtained. The development of the backflow phenomenon is clearly captured through the analysis of the velocity triangle.
KEYWORDS
low volume flow, steam turbine, condensation, windage condition, CFD
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2017-03-10
PAPER REVISED: 2017-05-01
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2017-05-12
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2017-12-02
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI17S1161H
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2017, VOLUME 21, ISSUE Supplement 1, PAGES [S161 - S167]
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Numerical investigation of condensing flow of low pressure steam turbine at different flow rate conditions

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