Originally Posted By: tom slick
Each of those blades are longer than the diameter of the turbines I worked on. As always, thank you for the pictures.
tom slick, here's the other thread that turtlevette mentioned, on fixing some broken blades without taking the rotors out.
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubb......#Post3842393
Couple of other bits from the past...
I built this in the mid '90s...A 35,000 tonne circular stacker reclaimer (Schade) and associated 900-1,200 tonne per hour coal handling plant....the "Jupiter 2" is 330 feet diameter, and you can watch eagles riding the thermals that come off it.
Here's another interesting one that not many get to see...
It's technically what hades should look like...that's molten sulfur burning in air, inside a reaction chamber. Forms SO2, which then goes over a vanadium pentoxide catalyst to make SO3. SO3, injected into the power station flue gasses decreases the resistivity of the fly ash (ours was highly resistive, being mostly alumina and silica), improving the ability of the electrostatic precipitators to capture it.
Adding Sulfurous oxides to the flu gas actually decreased our sulfur emissions.
Built that plant in the 90s as well.
Then moved from "construction" to operations at the end of the '90s, and managed the coal, ash, dust and whatnot until I got turbines in around 2001.
