Industrial notes

An unusual turbine-condenser arrangement was developed by the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Box 2278, Pittsburgh 30, Pa., because basement space limitations in an existing plant made it desirable that the condensers be located on the turbine operating floor level of the Crawford Avenue Station of the Commonwealth Edison Co. Instead of exhausting steam to the condenser in the conventional manner from the bottom of the turbine casing, the steam exhausts through two openings in the turbine casing located above the horizontal joint and on both sides of the longitudinal center-line of the unit. Engineers used a plastic model to determine the optimum arrangement of structural members in the low-pressure turbine casing.