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MITSUBISHI
Mechanical Drive
Steam Turbine

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Technical Evolutions of Steam Turbine

Mitsubishi Mechanical Drive Steam Turbine

Application line up

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (MCO) has been building steam turbines for almost
one century. Mitsubishi mechanical drive steam turbines are being accepted favorably as smooth, economical,
reliable turbines by all our customers.
Today, MCO is one of the leading manufacturers of steam turbines of all types. The first mechanical drive
turbine from our Works was delivered in 1958. Since then, we are a leading global provider of steam turbines
for the petrochemical industry and oil & gas field. Mitsubishi steam turbines have established a world-class
reputation for reliability and high performance achieved through cutting edge technologies.

Upstream

LNG, Natural Gas Liquids (NGL), Refinery, Gas to Liquid (GTL)

Downstream Ethylene & Derivatives, Ammonia / Urea, Methanol, Air Separation, Propane dehydrogenation (PDH), Nitric Acid

and other plants including Floating LNG, Industrial Power Generation and so on.

Advantage of Mitsubishi Mechanical Drive Steam Turbine

Stable superior performance

High speed and Compact design

Easy maintenance

Reliable long term operation

Quick and excellent After-sales service

Fertilizer Plant

Methanol Plant

Worlds first Floating LNG Facility

Ethylene Plant

For Mega Ethylene Plant

For PTA Plant

(Integrally Geared Compressor Drive)

For PDH Plant

Type and Characteristic

Extraction control valve

Back Pressure Turbine

Diaphragm

Governing valve

Back pressure type turbines efficiently utilize a large quantity of process steam, with the exhaust steam available
for process heat or for the other steamdriven operations, such as lowpressure turbines.

Casing
Blade

Condensing Turbine
Condensing type turbines, which are highly economical for variable speed operations, can be directly connected to
high speed compressors, thus providing a drive of a minimum initial cost.

Trip & Throttle valve

Rotor

Automatic Extraction / Induction Turbine

Where controlled power and process steam pressure are required, the use of the automatic extraction / induction turbine is
highly desirable. Within capacity limits, the Mitsubishi automatic extraction turbine can supply varying amounts of extraction
steam at constant pressure, while maintaining the required load output by governing the amount of steam admitted to the
low-pressure part of the turbine. MCO is well experienced in induction turbine and extraction / induction turbine.
Thrust bearing
Journal bearing

Labyrinth seal

Design Features
Trip & Throttle
Valve ( TTV)

Casing & Support

Center support design, describing below, can align original
casing center by absorbing casing thermal expansion during
operation. It assures st a b l e o p e r a t i o n not only for normal
condition but also for start-up, shut down.

MCO can provide two kinds

of TTV for inlet steam
conditions and customers
requirement.

Casing supports, having enough strength to with stand

connecting pipe force and moments, can absorb t h ermal
expansion without dirturbing shaft alignment.

Outlet
steam

Valve chest

Main valve
Pilot valve
Valve
spindle

Outlet
steam

Valve spindle

Emergency
oil cylinder

(i) Horizontally mechanical type

Pilot valve

Governing Valve (GV) / Extraction Control Valve (ECV)

Main valve

Valve chest

Intlet
steam
Spring

Turbine Exhaust casing is fixed point and expands toward

high pressure end, which is supported by flexible member
absorbing axial expansion.

Inlet steam

Partial stroke
test lever

Spring
Pilot
Emergency
oil cylinder

Multiple-valves assembly minimizes throttling losses and

provides for economical operation, both at rated and
partial loads. The sequence of opening valves provides a
continuous arc of steam admission, m i n i m i z i n g excitation
force on rotating blades. For upper portion of the valve
chest, hardened bushing that piped to the gland seal system
prevent the steam leakage from the steam chest.

(ii) Back seated oil operated type

Inlet
steam

Inlet
steam

Inner
bar

Valve chest

Valve spindle

Valve
body

Valve
spindle
Inner bar
Valve
disk

Valve
chest

Valve seat

Nozzle

Power
cylinder

(i) Independent Valve Chests

with nozzle box

Nozzle box
(ii) Integral Valve Chests
(Independent Valve Type)

Power
cylinder

Valve
seat
(iii) Integral Valve Chests
(Bar Lift Type)

(iv) Extraction/Admission
Control Valve

Nozzle & Diaphragm

av o i d r o t o r d a m a g e e v e n i f the rotor

MCO has developed state of the art profiles to minimize profile loss and
secondary flow loss, and applying optimum one to each stage.

contacts with labyrinth f i n s . In order to

Labyrinth seal

- Nozzle
Nozzle profiles and configurations are designed to minimize exciting force
on moving blades.

Rotor

Diaphragm assembly

- Diaphragm

Steam turbine rotors are designed and manufactured carefully

to realize safety / reliable operation.

Valve
spindle
Valve chest
Valve body

Valve body

Valve
seat

Labyrinth type packings are applied to

shaft end seals and interstage seals to
keep minimum clearance between rotor
and seal. Labyrinth packings are spring
loaded and / or fin is tilted against flow
direction to keep minimum clearance and

Spring

Spring
Valve
spindle
Steam chest

Labyrinth seal

minimize leakage steam, slanting labyrinth

In case of high pressure and high temperature steam, a

separate type nozzle box is used to prevent abnormal stress
or c r a c k i n g on casing due to d i f f e r e n c e in t h e r m a l
expansion of the steam chests during partial load. These
nozzle boxes are supported to compensate thermal growth
due to governing valve opening sequence.

Power piston

Nozzle
box

seals are applied.

-Nozzle Box

Diaphragms are horizontally split and supported on center lines in order

not to disturb shaft centering by thermal expansion.

Integral rotor provides stable operation against abnormal vibration

due from loosening of shrink fit, fretting and so on.

Blade

Diaphragm

Ample of experiences not only mechanical drive steam turbines but

also power generator drive and laboratory experimental data are fully
reflected to the present design to provide the reliability and performance.

Well balanced rotor provides low vibration. Special attention is

paid to minimize unbalance in each stage blade assembling.
MCO has two high speed balancing machine to achieve
the low vibration. This balancing machine can be measured
to 20,000 rpm.
High speed balance and low
speed balance are enough
to achieve low vibration
operation by this attention, in
addition to the design concept
of rotor dynamics.

Bearing
- Journal bearing
Direct lubrication type tilting pad design provides excellent heat dissipation
feature.

- Thrust bearing
Thrust bearing with multi segment pivoted pads and self leveling, can
withstand thrust force from either directions and position the rotor accurately.

Rotor assembly

Titanium Alloy Blade

Integral Shrouded Blade

Journal bearing
- Direct lubrication type

Thrust bearing
- Direct lubrication type

Spring box
Valve body
Power
cylinder

Type of
Mitsubishi Mechanical Drive Steam Turbine

Design Features

Application Range

Start up Philosophy

140,000

For turbine stat up, MCO has two start up procedure.

Model No : 9 and over

Turbine Max Output (kW)

120,000

TTV start up is MCOs traditional design. This start up

provides the uniform heating of turbine casing . It prevents
the deformation of turbine casing due to the unequal
heating.

100,000

Model No : 8

80,000

- GV start up

- TTV start up

MCO applies GV st art up if customer re q uest that

procedure. MCO has a lot of experience for this start
up. GV start up provides the easy start up for operator.

Model No : 7

60,000

Governing system & Safety device

Model No : 5
40,000

- Governing System
Model No : 4

20,000

Model No : 3

- Safety Device

Mitsubishi Mechanical Drive Steam Turbine can

employ any type of electronic governor that is available
in the market. MCO can provide combined compressor
and turbine control system as requested.

Three safety devices can be applied.

(i) Dual electro-hydraulic solenoid-operated valve
(ii) Dual electronic overspeed circuit
(iii) 2 out of 3 voting overspeed trip device

0
0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

16,000

18,000

20,000

Trip & throttle valve

Turbine Max Speed (rpm)

Pilot valve

Model Code

Steam inlet

BD

Extraction
control valves

Emergency
trip piston

Feedback
lever

Governing
valves

Feedback lever

Power
piston

Power piston
External signal

Number of stage

Model size

Turbine type
B:
EB:
C:
E:
DE:
MX:

Back pressure turbine

Extraction back pressure turbine
Condensing turbine
Extraction condensing turbine
Double extraction turbine
Admission condensing turbine

Working steam
pressure and temperature
H:
L:

High inlet steam model

Low inlet steam model

DCS.
etc.

E/H
actuator

( from 3 to 11)

Special type
DF:
TF:
MC:
BD:
SG:

Electronic
governor

E/H
actuator

Operation
panel

Pilot valve

Double flow
Triple flow
Multi-casing
Both end drive
Geared turbine

Pilot valve
2 out of 3
Overspeed
trip module
(option)

Dual 2 way solenoid valve

Emergency oil
drain at trip

Manual trip button

Speed sensors
(Magnetic pick-ups)
2 3

Orifice
Reset button

3
Orifice

Control oil supply

Emergency
trip piston

Control oil
Drain oil

Extraction steam
non-return valve

Back pressure turbine

Extraction back pressure turbine

Condensing turbine

Extraction condensing turbine

Double extraction turbine

Admission condensing turbine