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In throttle governing the steam entering is regulated by opening and closing of valve. As the valve is closed, the throttling or constant enthalpy process occurs across the valve with an increase in entropy and corresponding decrease in availability of energy per unit mass flow of steam. Also due to throttling Steam Turbines the state of steam entering turbine stage gets modified and the modified expansion line for each load is obtained. It may be noted that even when the governor valve is full open the pressure drop does occur and thus it can be said that throttling is evident at all loads on turbine. Here a centrifugal governor is used to sense the change in speed of shaft. The relay system has a pilot valve piston and servo-motor. of upward The or displacement either servomotor
downward decides the opening of throttle valve C. Servomotor piston is actuated by the high pressure oil entering from pilot valve to upper or lower half of servomotor piston D.
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Under normal operation the servomotor piston occupies middle position and pilot valves keep the inlet and exit ports in closed position. When oil enters the upper half of servomotor then servomotor piston lowers down and the throttle valve starts closing causing reduction of steam flow rate and so the output till the speed is maintained to normal running speed. Simultaneously, the oil from lower half of servomotor drained out through pilot valve port. When oil under pressure enters lower half of servomotor then servomotor piston gets lifted up causing lift of throttle valve. Throttle governing offers following disadvantages due to throttle action at inlet: (a) Throttling increases initial superheat at inlet and the greatest variations in steam velocity occur in the later stages. (b) The wetness of steam gets reduced in later stages due to throttling. Due to this reduced wetness there occurs reduction in stage efficiency at part load operation of turbine. gets
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