Mechanical Engineer

It is certainly possible but definitely not recommended.

That was my first knee jerk response.

Then I started to think about all the other ways of monitoring overspeed, safety controlers, redundant checks, etc, and came to the conclusion that (unless it violated codes) it would be quite reasonable to design other overspeed monitoring devices that could actually respond faster and with more predictive functions such as rate of rise of speed, monitoring head pressure, along with data logging and trending.

The options could be quite interesting and still be relatively fail safe.

Perhaps it should be noted that the OP only asked about removing a critical safety device from a design and did not offer any evidence or indication that another device was being considered to replace it.

Had that been the case, some responses may have been quite different or even absent from the discussion.

The phrasing, grammar and punctuation of the question indicate that the author may not be employed in an environment of innovation, but that's just my opinion.

Please negate all the negative responses by offering some actual solutions to the problem at hand so that the OP may get on with his removal of the, "mechanical over speed device from design of steam turbine".

Thank you for your interest in the topic.

Would tangential disintegration be considered a mechanical overspeed device?

I believe there would also be a radial component to the disintegration.

Not really, but at a distance it would look about the same.

Now that I think about it, yup, you're right !!

Cheers !!

(mutter, mutter, must not reply in haste before putting fingers in gear.)

Dear Mr.pesho,

Even though the Answer for your question is YES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO REMOVE OVER SPEED RIPPING DEVICE, it SHOULD NOT BE DONE since Protection of the equipment, safety of operational staff, is very much important.

In the event of explosion due to enormous centrifugal force, it will create a CATOSTROPHIC DISASTER. I have come across a case about 7 years back, the over sppeding of Turbine resulted in the damage of the coupling, and broken to pieces and flown away and fallen far away - 2 KiloMeters away from the Factory.

The weakest point in the system will fail and in this case it is the coupling was weak and broken. If Turbine is exploded, the steam will engulf the entire area, visibility is not possible and untill and unless the steam valve at Boiler is closed - the problem will compund second after second.

DHAYANANDHAN.S

Yes, though the proposal is nonsense.

Just say NO to drug addled questions.

Yes, one can remove anything from a design. In your case you will now have a dangerous design that nobody should build.

....and the OP is gone, probably never to return.

The question was dumb, so I don't blame him, he probably realised it after reading a few answers...

The standard of manners on the internet simply gets worse daily.....

Do you blame them when remarks such as Darwin Award and other demeaning remarks are given?

We are rapidly dissintegrating into name calling and making demeaning remarks. The person should not be attacked, but the problem addressed.

I don't blame anyone. Making sure that the OP clearly understands how dangerous a capricious design change can be seems prudent to me. I also don't blame the OP for asking if this can be done. It can but at great risk.

I take my opening remark here back. What I do blame is the idea that we should coddle anyone that proposes an apparently dangerous act. Abuse is always inappropriate and IMHO abuse is not present in even the jokes of this thread.

The OP sets the level, as in this case......I did not post the DA answer, but I do agree with it.

The world is a rough place, so is CR4, he can either handle it or maybe not!!!