Apparatus including a turbine, a condenser and a support arrangement therefor.

摘要

This invention relates to a support arrangement for steam turbine having an exhaust port for exhausting motive fluid therethrough and a condensing apparatus arranged below the turbine in fluid communication therewith through the exhaust port. The condenser has an outer wall (26) disposed below and flexibly joined to the bottom (24) of the condenser (12) so as to define with the condenser bottom a vacuum balancing chamber. Means (30) are provided rigidly connecting the outer wall (26) to tne turbine (10), for transmitting the atmospheric pressure forces from the outer wall to the turbine so as to limit the load on the turbine's support structure to the turbines weight. With this arrangement the turbine support structure needs to be designed only for the turbine weight.