Trip system for steam turbine
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation
InventorsKen Nishitani, Abhay Jain
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Abstract
A trip system for a steam turbine closes a trip-and-throttle valve and a control valve of a steam turbine in an emergency. The trip system includes: an emergency shut-off device that shuts off supply of control oil for the trip-and-throttle valve and the control valve to close the trip-and-throttle valve and the control valve; and a drain device that includes a plurality of solenoid valves connected in parallel and drains the control oil by opening the solenoid valves. The emergency shut-off device includes a cylinder, a piston that slides in the cylinder, a spring that applies biasing force to the piston, a plurality of piston valves provided to the piston, and a plurality of chambers formed by the piston valves.
Claims6
A trip system for a steam turbine that closes a trip-and-throttle valve and a control valve of a steam turbine in an emergency, the trip system comprising:
- an emergency shut-off device that shuts off supply of control oil for the trip-and-throttle valve and the control valve to close the trip-and-throttle valve and the control valve;
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- a drain device that includes a plurality of solenoid valves connected in parallel and drains the control oil by opening the solenoid valves, wherein the emergency shut-off device includes:
- a cylinder;
- a piston that slides in the cylinder;
- a spring that applies biasing force to the piston;
- a plurality of piston valves provided to the piston;
- and
- a plurality of chambers formed by the piston valves,
- the plurality of chambers includes:
- a transfer chamber that moves the piston from a normal position during normal operation to an emergency position when the control oil is drained from the transfer chamber,
- a supply chamber that supplies the control oil to the control valve in normal operation,
- a control-valve drainage chamber that drains the control oil from the control valve during the emergency, and
- a trip-and-throttle-valve drainage chamber that drains the control oil from the trip-and-throttle valve during the emergency, and
- piping through which the control oil is supplied includes:
- a first piping connected to the supply chamber;
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- a second piping that passes through an orifice and is connected to the drain device, the transfer chamber, the trip-and-throttle-valve drainage chamber, and the trip-and-throttle valve so that the drain device, the transfer chamber, the trip-and-throttle-valve drainage chamber, and the trip-and-throttle valve are in parallel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.