Titanics Engines

Thanks a lot Matt!
This plan is already better. Profile plan? It hears good. I've got the Shipbuilder's plan of the Engine Room, but that isn't show the connections of the pipes.
 
I dont know if you can see the details much but the pipes all on the port side of the Titanic (upper half of the plan) are the refrigerating lines and the ones on the starboard side of the Titanic (lower half of the plan) are the steam lines. I assume those are the steam lines cause they were connecting between the boiler room #1 and the turbine room and then eventually made its way to portions of the steam pipes going into the change over valve in the turbine room.

Yep the profile plan I showed in earlier links are going to be used to show the major steam pipes from the boiler rooms to the turbine rooms

Here are the profile plans im going to be using there the same as above but I croped them down more so you can see more details that I have added but the steam pipes havent been added as of yet.

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/Rusty_S85/Titanic/TitanicProfile1of.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/Rusty_S85/Titanic/TitanicProfile2of.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/Rusty_S85/Titanic/TitanicProfile3of.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/Rusty_S85/Titanic/TitanicProfile4of6.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/Rusty_S85/Titanic/TitanicProfile5of6.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/Rusty_S85/Titanic/TitanicProfile6of6.jpg
 
 
Hey everyone

I am doing a research paper on Titanic's essential technology. I found some info off an odd website and i want to know f it is all correct

1. Were there two sets of reciprocating engines with four cylinders each and they were triple expansion?

2.The ships turbine was it a low pressure turbine and utilized exhaust steam at 9 pounds per square inch form the reciprocating engines to rotate the rotor? Was it 12 feet in diameter, weighed 130 tons ad delivered 1600 standard horse power at 165 rpm?

3. The boilers, all 24, did they supply steam at 215 psi to the engines?

I know most of the other things, but if you think I need to add anymore info and or it is incorrect could you please help me find correct info?

Thanks,
Taylor
 
Modern "steam engines" basically use the same principle of reclaiming energy from the low pressure steam that exhausts from the HP engine (turbine) and sends it through an LP turbine. Today's main engines however combine the motive force of both turbines into one shaft through the reduction gear.

The Titanic had two HP Reciprocal engines that exhausted to a single LP turbine, all three separate engines connected to separate shafts.

The Lusitania had two HP turbines connected to a individual shafts as well as two LP turbines connected again to individual shafts what I don't know is if they used a reduction gear on the HP engines or if they were directly connected.

Sorry if I went off topic, just trying to make sense of the marriage of the different technologies into what we have today which is two turbines through a common reduction gear into one shaft.
 
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