Bulb turbine system
AssigneeVA Tech Voest MCE GmbH & Co
InventorStefan Winkler
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Abstract
The invention concerns a system (1) of bulb turbines (2), in which each bulb turbine (2) comprises a generator located in an essentially cylindrical area (4) of a turbine housing and a turbine wheel coupled to the generator and mounted in such a way that it can rotate (7), a suction pipe (13) being attached to each bulb turbine. Several bulb turbines (2) are coupled with one another in a field-like or matrix-like order both in an essentially horizontal position side by side as well as stacked in a vertical position or are stored in at least one single common support (8). In said system, several bulb turbines are stored in one common support (8) and releasably connected to the corresponding suction pipes (13).
Claims9
A system of bulb turbines, wherein the bulb turbines are each comprised of a generator arranged within a substantially cylindrically designed region of a turbine casing and a rotatably mounted turbine runner coupled with the generator, which are each joined by a draft tube, wherein a plurality of bulb turbines are mutually coupled in a field-like or matrix-like array both in a substantially horizontal arrangement one beside the other and in a vertical arrangement one above the other or mounted in at least one common support, respectively, said plurality of bulb turbines each mounted in a common support being detachably coupled with associated draft tubes, wherein for the detachable coupling of the bulb turbines with associated draft tubes in the operating position coupling of a support comprising bulb turbines mounted therein with draft tubes optionally all mounted in one retention means is effected by complementary semi-shell-shaped connection pieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.