Steam Turbine Generator Start Up

This video is part of a steam lab for a 4th class power engineering / operating engineering program. It shows power engineering students how to start a small steam turbine which powers a single phase generator. It emphasizes on the procedures. The background noise of the power plant is taken out and voice is then recorded over. The camera technician is Gordon Aisman. This video shows: How to slow roll a steam turbine, check the oil for the speed governor and bearings, check the drain for the turbine, test the over speed trip,(its purpose is to shut off the turbine if its running speed is too high), adjust the frequency of the generator to 60 hertz by adjusting the governor, put on load: electrical heating element banks and light banks, re-adjust the frequency again. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License