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Select low cost, high quality steam turbines quickly and easily A must for plant engineers looking to stay competitive in today's intense global marketplace., Heinz P. Bloch's Practical Guide to Steam Turbine Technology takes you step-by-step through the art of designing and selecting more reliable, cost-efficient turbomachinery. It includes everything you need to master steam turbine technology--from basic types and controls to the Elliot Shortcut selection method for multivalve, multistage systems. You get fingertip access to critical data on casing design...mechanical drive bearings...impulse and reaction turbine rotors...blade design...governors and control systems...couplings...rotor dynamics...reaction vs. impulse steam turbines...performance degradation...transmission elements...shortcut graphical selection methods...and more.