Show THE STEAM TURBINE contributed the rapidity with which the steam turbine has come into popular favor is one of the phenomena of modern steam engineering it is less than a decade ago since the first turbine was sold in the american market but there are today about in use throughout the country aggregating a total capacity of approximately kilowatts or about horse power this wonderful demand for that novel prime mover is of course easily explained by the many advantages the turbine has over the necip ro crating steam engine an interesting test was conducted recently by the engineers of the new york E edison company at the Waier waterside side station near street which developed facts hitherto unattained by any st steam eam prime mover in this country the unit under test was a westinghouse turbine of horse po power capacity it had been sold under a steam consumption guarantee of pounds of steam per kilowatt hour but the test recorded the phenomenally no low steam consumption of a shade less than pounds per kilowatt kilowatt hour apart from the fact that this result gained a bonus for the westinghouse turbine of over it is of the utmost interest to all users of steam engineers as an illustration of the lowest record for steam consumption which has ever been recorded by a stationary steam engine this steam consumption figures less than one and one half pounds of coal per kill hour and graphically illustrates the great advance in modern power plant practice attained through the introduction tro of the steam turbine the efficiency of which has been demonstrated in all respects to be superior to the recipe reciprocating focati ng engines as to practically supplant them thein altogether |