STEAM TURBINE PLANT CONDENSER Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: heat power engineering; condensers for double-flow turbines. SUBSTANCE: condenser has housing with or two connecting branch pipes placing the condenser in communication with exhaust part. Each branch pipe is provided with bellows spaced in height of branch pipe. Walls of branch pipe over upper bellows and under lower bellows are connected from inside by braces rigid in vertical direction and made in form of rigid rods hinge-secured on these walls or flexible plates rigidly connected with these walls. Such design provides displacement of turbine along its axis relative to condenser at thermal at thermal expansion and unloading of low-pressure cylinder from atmospheric pressure. EFFECT: enhanced reliability of operation. 3 cl, 2 dwg