Steam turbine thrust bearing

The effect of steam turbine thrust bearing is in order to determine the axial position of the rotor in the cylinder inside.

In the case of normal operation, the thrust bearing of turbine, effect of tile work force, to ensure that the rotor of steam turbine generator will not shift to the position.

But the load reduction, especially in the case of load rejection due to inertia and other reasons, resulting in steam turbine have trend that Shift to the head direction.

At this time, the force is thrust in non working pad, so as to ensure the relative position of the steam turbine rotor in the cylinder axial direction does not change. The turbine thrust forward thrust and reverse thrust.