. The Street railway journal . generator loss, and thusmore definitely establishes a measure of performance. One is impressed with two distinguishing features of the tur-bines sleam efficiency, namely, that it seems to vary but littleover wide ranges of load, and, further, that the size of the unithas comparatively little bearing. It follows, then, that if goodresults are possible,at all, they are neither restricted to the largerplants nor to the requirement of steady load. Fig. 5 illustrates this. Herein are given the results of testson a 400-kw turbine made at the builders works before shipm
. The Street railway journal . generator loss, and thusmore definitely establishes a measure of performance. One is impressed with two distinguishing features of the tur-bines sleam efficiency, namely, that it seems to vary but littleover wide ranges of load, and, further, that the size of the unithas comparatively little bearing. It follows, then, that if goodresults are possible,at all, they are neither restricted to the largerplants nor to the requirement of steady load. Fig. 5 illustrates this. Herein are given the results of testson a 400-kw turbine made at the builders works before shipment,the machine having since been in daily operation eight tests were conducted under brake load, so that the figuresare based on the brake horse-power developed. The rated loadwould be about 600 B. H. P. The steam consumption is seen tobe very flat, graduating from lbs. at full load to 16 lbs. athalf rating, and to less than 19 lbs. at one-quarter capacity. The October 18, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 645. FIG. 3.—NEW 400-KW STEAM TURBINE AT YALE & TOWNE MANUFACTURING WORKS, STAMFORD, CONN.
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