The explosion of a steam turbine

[@DJdoppIer]

That was possibly the calmest "explosion" I've ever seen.

[@dogking44]

...boom...

[@noumanashfaq7419]

because one wise man shut it down before getting exploded

[@TheGodParticle]

I'd still stay well clear of it, expert or not, high pressure will tear the body to shreds.

[@andyroo3022]

LIght your fart and it will be better than that.

[@appelmelk5664]

@@TheGodParticleyeah superheated steam at high pressure is like an invisible lasersword to humans

[@d.cypher2920]

the LEEAKING of a steam turbine.

[@ewanmccrimmon5406]

True

[@Avery_da_dragon]

It exploded inside and broke the seal

[@platimatty]

Thank you for saying it.

[@jockob1671]

That was a minute and 58 seconds of my life I'll NEVER get back.

[@jonathanderekvanwieringen3773]

Nice Sunday BREAKDOWN, DOUBLE PAY😂😂😂😂48hr job😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@derekwall200]

that's not an explosion but it's still a steam containment failure, and it can still be nasty if you were unlucky enough to get caught in that

[@akaKuiper]

Engulfed by boiling hot steam

[@enclaveofdoom]

Hotter than boiling water.

[@2Truth4Liberty]

Would not want to be standing beside it when it fails like that. Could cause what some might think is worse than death. Might get boiled alive within inches of your life only to be put on life support the rest of your life with severe pain.

[@derekwall200]

@@2Truth4Liberty yep and having to go through that day in and day out would make death seem like a blessing

[@LOGIBEAR01]

Is that even steam? Doesn't seem to be. Seems like magic smoke or a coupling let go.

[@electrician248]

I used to operate the steam plant for a hospital. We had a battery of four Kewanee 150 HP Scotch marine fire tube boilers. One day a seal on a hand hole became loose and began leaking one one of the boilers. It was blowing steam until I could shut down the boiler and take it off line. It did not explode. What we are viewing here is a leak, as opposed to an explosion.

[@alanblyde8502]

Yeh at no time did I see an explosion

[@richardcallihan9746]

I was told by my Uncle, that in the Navy when checking for a steam leak they would wave a wooden broomstick ahead of them. Because you might not be able to see it. The steam leak would cut right thru the broomstick in a heartbeat. I didn't see any such safety procedure. Wish there had been audio as you can hear a leak.

[@jacquesblaque7728]

Not really. Std practice was to use a straw broom to locate any main steam leaks. Leak would trim the broom, NOT the stick. Even 600 psi steam leaks are invisible and inaudible, and sufficiently violent that if you were using your hand to find them, you'd lose fingers or more. Must be really fun with 1000 psi steam.

[@richardcallihan9746]

@@jacquesblaque7728 My Uncle retired as Chief Machinist Mate after serving 20 yrs and was recalled as a Warrant Officer for the Korean War. As I remember these sticks were positioned where necessary so one could quickly navigate the confined spaces safely by rapidly waving the stick ahead of you if there was a leak, and if a significate leak hit the stick it would slice through the stick. He served on cruisers but mostly Destroyers in wartime. I think a full broom would slow you down, I would remember trimming straws. Maybe to isolate a leak. His destroyer was with the returning carriers to Pearl Harbor after the attack. The USS Wren, I believe. Elmer Callihan passed in 1975. That's all.

[@jacquesblaque7728]

@@richardcallihan9746 Not how the engineers explained it to me on the 600 psi FRAM-1 Gearing-class I served on. Steam leaks would mostlikely occur at flange-gaskets, resulting on excessively-rapid changes of steam temperature. Mostlikely you'd not be trying to hustle past, and there'd be room to keep clear of the relatively large steam lines, largely above you. The broom-straw bits would be used to locate a leak without suffering amputation. Handle, no, sorry. The ones I saw in the engine rooms were ordinary straw brooms; leak sufficient to trim them definitely would mandate immediate attention. We, on the bridge, would always take care while underway to assist the engineers in stabilizing main steam temps, as directed by our CO, an ex-Shipfitter, so we never got to put it to the test, fortunately. Easy to understand how gas turbines totally took over propulsion of cans.

[@rayswann7618]

Well just happens I was in the room at the time, it went WWWOOOSHHH CLINCKY CLANKIE VAROOM squeek

[@johnschneider3082]

While in the NAVY,running a main feed pump @1280 psi and 1000 degrees, supper heated steam,we had a turbine shroud failure, and a segment of the blades blew out of the case so this failure was nothing.

[@donk8472]

BT3 here!!

[@hankscorpio6111]

@@donk8472 Another BT3 here too!! "Although I've been doing steam and boilers ever since!!"

[@donk8472]

@@hankscorpio6111 i was steaming again from 2015 to 2022. until we had an explosion, hospitals first, my 2nd. First one was onboard ship. two more killed one a good friend. in 2022, couldnt take it anymore....hospital wasnt fixing shit ended up with severe anxiety and stress. plus diagnosed with PTSD from ships accident. other than that...love the job!!! BTs Rule the UNDERWORLD..

[@hankscorpio6111]

@@donk8472 I've been working for the same company for over 30 years now. I've worked at several hospitals here around the valley. The biggest problem I see with them is that they expect everything to go perfectly when they understaff. Luckily my boss is willing to make sure we fix things right when they go wrong and he trusts my judgement. So much so that it pit's me against administration "and our water treatment company that wants me to change chemicals to they're own". I'm still using the manufacturer's chemical. Our state doesn't license boiler operators, "although Salt Lake City used to until 2010 when they stopped". I think that attitude is odd when you consider that you have to be licensed by the state to work on women's fingernails but not something that can wipe out a city block. When I started I worked at a very large hospital and we did cogeneration. We had 2 noncondensing steam turbo generators and had 2 boilers operating at 250psi and 480 degree's superheat. It was a really slick operation. It was fully staffed 24hrs a day. "well we were alone on afternoons and nights" but there was still someone qualified there. When they shut down the turbines for the last time they went from a staff of 8 down to 2. They don't man it around the clock anymore obviously and they don't have separate management for that team. They've tried to offer me $10 an hour more to go back there but I've hit the jackpot as far as hospitals to work for in this company. I work for a smaller one that's still large enough to need a boiler mechanic but they're basically closed over the weekend and my on call is only once every 6 weeks. At the other place I was on call half of my life!! I was asked to apply for the job I have here "kind of like what's going on over there lol!" But I have no inclination on ever going back so long as I feel like I'm being treated fairly, and they allow me to fix what needs to be fixed. "in fact my boss is a stickler for good maintenance and insists that we get it done right regardless of cost". Needless to say I don't have a lot of equipment failures here because of that which makes my job easier "and imo cheaper in the long run for the company because they aren't having to buy new equipment as often"!

[@hankscorpio6111]

@@donk8472 Oh sorry! I meant to give you my condolences about your friend too! People outside of our field don't always understand the risks of what we do. Around the year 2000 I replaced a cast iron sectional boiler for a motel. The manager was a woman and her boyfriend was an independent contractor that they wanted to have help us. I wasn't working for a company to do this job I was working independently because they wanted to get it done on the cheap. After replacing the old one with a used one that was in very good shape we got it going. It wound up putting steam in the steam line "lol pretty obvious" but there was a steam leak in the line that went under the driveway. There was a small crawl space that it went through. While the guy was really helpful he saw the leak and I just said we got the boiler going and that was that.. "the owner decided to be a butt about paying". He was going to go in there to find the leak. I told him not to because the steam was going to displace the air in there.. He ignored me.. he went in maybe 3 to 4 feet before starting to scream that he couldn't breath!! We of course didn't go in but he was able to reach the hole out and we pulled him out. I didn't bother lecturing him that I told him so.. Almost if almost dyeing isn't statement enough then nothing will teach him.

[@jadefalcon001]

I think the poster needs to review what the word "explosion" means.

[@firemanslick]

Id imagine the sound experienced that day would have been near explosion level

[@MrNunna]

Why? It's perfect click bait.

[@evilswissy]

the content pirate just needs to be reminded how desperate they are

I witness much worse explosions than this in my bathroom on the morning after the first mug of coffee.

[@Lordoffail]

Why is this categorized as pets and animals and where the HELL IS MY EXPLOSION.

[@garrettbivens8339]

Now its titled as sience and technolagy THATS SO FUCKIN STUPID THERES NOTHIN SIENCY ABOUT IT ITS JUST A CRAPPY LEAK

[@d.cypher2920]

Pet turbine, with video title written by an animal i guess. 🤠 🐺 ❤ 🐑

[@NionXenion-gh7rf]

​@@d.cypher2920it runs on heat produced by burning pets

[@n10cities]

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom! More like a leak than explosion. Clickbait title... :(

[@Geaccw-ps6xm]

Ikr

[@USMC1984]

Not sure where this is or their operating procedure… but the last thing I would have done was run into a room where uncontrolled steam was being released!!! The operating controls should be in a separate room, and if something like this happens go through emergency shutdown procedures and let all pressures drop before entering the area!!

[@Sixta16]

nothing exploded. Just some small leak.

[@hafizisaid6774]

Click bait

[@carlosgh3687]

what a rip off... just vacuum lost, broken seals... i was waiting to see the stages blowing the casing in thousand pieces... and the shaft coming out to say hello

[@ThatOneTruckGuy]

By coming out to say hello, he means it exploding and the shaft going flying. haha

[@jordan1546]

No it's a homoerotic remark

[@buzzygaming7667]

rip off? wrong context mate you mean "what a misleading title"

[@BigChiefPops]

"Where's the boom? There was supposed to be a terrible boom?"

[@wulliest]

That’s nothing, I was waiting for pieces of the turbine disc to take out the camera

[@billharm6006]

Was this a rupture of the turbine exhaust? If so, was this a condensing engine (most are) and the problem initiated with a vacuum failure? It certainly was not a blade ejection. Neither was it a bearing failure. A steam supply flange leak perhaps? An explanation seems in order.

[@rsinclair689]

Well, not exactly an explosion but expensive nonetheless, curious what the HP feed pressure was and if it was a steam line or casing failure....

[@gregg4164]

Thats what happens when you hit a turbine with wet steam. most have had a slug on condensate pool in the inlet piping and it slammed the turbine blades.

[@NionXenion-gh7rf]

i wonder are there idiots that do that

[@daveh9083]

they make fresh water drains and high pressure drains for a reason.

[@Kendallian132]

We had a small back pressure machine come apart on us back in 1993. Luckily the steam stop for it was located across the turbine room floor so that we did not get hit with pieces that were being strewn about. No one injured.

[@Petefx86]

Seen a boiler explode at a local commercial laundromat. It launched itself through a brick wall and into the parking lot.

[@whitemonkey7932]

Boiler will always be more violent...think about why

[@daveg2609]

If its a condensing turbine, I'd bet they just lost vacuum on the condenser

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Does that cause a pressure spike in the last stages of the turbine causing the shaft seal to vomit out steam? Is the shaft seal destroyed by this?

[@daveg2609]

@@gregorymalchuk272 I doubt the shaft seal was "destroyed", They're not made of rubber. But if they lost the condenser circulating pumps, the steam stopped changing to condensate.& the condenser overpressurized.

[@TimeSurfer206]

My Union, the International Brotherhood of Electrified Workers, stole a training video from the Plumbers and Pipefitters. It showed a man walking through a steam plant, waving a broomstick ahead of him as he walked. As he was waving it, a good 6 inches fell off the end. He said, "And that is a steam leak. I'm glad that wasn't my head." I'm into the Alternative Energy scene, but, there are reasons I avoid steam and Methane Generators. That reason is, "Boom."

[@ignatiusdemonseed]

So what was the cause of the leak? A stage extraction line leak? Gland steam seal failure? It didn't look intense enough to be a main steam line failure. So many unanswered items... where is this power station? What size is the unit (looks like maybe 20 MW max)? What is the operating steam pressure?

[@Антон-е9й]

turbine power seems to be 5 megawatts

[@kaspervestergaard2383]

Why does matter where to power station is located. Shitty questions you ask.

[@fxturist8534]

if it was an explosion, half of the room would've been destroyed lol (if not the entire room)

[@FlorentinoRebuildingCo.5644]

I think this happened somewhere in England, because this was a very polite boiler explosion.

[@bigfatdavebigfatdave7395]

While the ‘explosion’ may have seemed a bit underwhelming, a very real danger is from suffocation. If the steam released has enough volume to displace the available air, one can very quickly be overcome by the lack of oxygen available. Those dudes in the background were very fortunate it wasn’t a catastrophic steam release.

[@godfreypoon5148]

If your breathing air is suddenly replaced by steam, lack of oxygen is NOT going to be your first concern.

[@heyyo162]

@@godfreypoon5148 My thought also. The autopsy report would not state "Suffocation" but rather "Steam cooked like a chicken".

[@theonewhoknows2]

Yea your lungs would be burnt out from the hot steam.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

What you see is water vapor, the result of condensation. Steam is colorless.

[@Visionery1]

Visible steam is 'cooler' than superheated steam. The latter is invisible, a jet of SH steam will cut your arm off before you even know it's there.

[@arthurmatthews9321]

That looks more like a steam supply pipe fracture or an exhaust Pipe rather than the turbine.

[@illbeyourmonster1959]

I'm guessing this "Explosion" was like when my friend 'destroyed' her car, and all it was is that she got a flat tire that cost her $28 and 45 minutes of inconvenience one day.

[@bubbleentity]

Well a LP containment failure, and not an explosion. Still, those guys had an exciting shift

[@bobo-wf1jv]

During summers in college, I was hired by an electrical utility to paint 250 MW generators and turbine housings ... crawled all over the machines, I'm still here.

[@skyounkin]

This is literally the description of anti-climatic.

[@shanebarry9396]

I seem to have missed the explosion. Can someone give me the timestamp of when the explosion takes place?

[@keithnoneya]

Wouldn't call this an explosion rather a pipe or seal rupture. "Kaboom, where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering Kaboom."

[@brianthesnail3815]

A turbine explosion is huge. The massive amount of energy inside a turbine is capable of lighting a medium sized town. Imagine all that energy released in 1 second. That was a leak.

[@Dr_Mario2007]

That's no steam explosion, that's a seal failure. No big deal, steam locomotives are so much worse when it comes to failures - the boilers are far more dangerous than turbines when it comes to overpressure event since they're the power sources (except for high rotational speed events, then the picture changes, as turbine dovetails have limits to how much they can hold themselves together before they catastrophically fail and indeed you don't want to be in the way when a fan blade lets go). And steam is no joke either.

[@Paul-pb3vq]

I've had a bigger explosion on the toilet after eating a curry. 😂😂

[@deankeen5186]

Looks more like some sort of failing of the gland steam and then you have a steam leak.

[@chrisperrien7055]

The word "anticlimactic" comes to mind. I expected hanging roof girders and a few steamed two legged crab.

[@jemotorsports00e]

Well that’s 2 minutes of my left I’m never getting back.

[@kamikazeratte]

"The leakage of a steam turbine"...

[@Jeremy_Moro]

Well.. this doesn't look like a turbine working with an 8 MPa pressure vessel but if it was happening in a nuclear power plant with a worker in the same room, then forget that worker, he's grave walking. Wait, sorry, he has evaporated

[@incrediblemichael]

it wasnt a turbie explosion a pipe ruptured and the safety systems recat instant by closing the valves to the turbine

[@robertlyle6277]

CLICK BAIT - No explosion - just steam release

[@Herodotortoise]

We call this a steam rupture….not an explosion

[@Gerri006]

As commented below already: just steam leaking from a failed connection. With an explosion the complete building would have gone up in the air.

[@EVAUnit4A]

Hollywood really has spoiled me in the definition of "explosion".

[@frankvandendool882]

No explosions here! You have been warned!

[@Keepawayfromopenflame]

Did they put all that steam into buckets so it can be added back to the system?

[@stevemenegaz9824]

This looks like a failure of seals of a motor driven refrigerant compressor

[@Thebuilderofthings1]

The only explosion I slept through.

[@jogi_54]

real accidents with steam turbines look very different, e.g. when the rotor of a 300MW steam turbine exit the hall trough the roof and lands 300m away in the field

[@jihnbrumfield4976]

How long that run for before that happen

[@gilbertbrewer269]

I wanted to see pieces flying through the air and people running for cover

[@gabrielv.4358]

I was searching about Endura E Engine and I came here because this random video was suggested to me and grabbed my attention

[@HeydenHarvey]

How how is the steam that escaped?

[@johanea]

My water kettle explodes daily like this, with a whistle.

[@sidneyswerissen3910]

Where is the bang??

[@Mr.1.i]

As soon as that steam escaped the temprature in that room would have neen about 200⁰c ....430⁰c in some places escaping pressure of about 220psi

[@CHOPERUS23]

Still waiting, is there any missing footage?!

[@tomrogers9467]

That’s an explosion? My fucking tea kettle male more steam!

[@EdwardBallinger-uj7uy]

It's a steam leak. If it exploded it would have put the casing bolts through the roof.

[@Deo-h3l]

Comrade deatlov the core exposed. RBMK reactors don't explode. The propane tanks exploded. So the turbines exploded?!

[@gregmercil3968]

What explosion?

[@TheoneGodfather]

Ours exploded/ came apart several years ago. Chunked pieces through the walls that were landing a couple hundred yards away . Kooky.

[@watchguy7986]

Changed video to “failed seal of a steam turbine”

[@fernandosantos3576]

So, where is the explosion?

[@tvoprosucks]

oh the humanity, how many were killed?

[@Stepneytheflower]

POV, when you soldier and you accidentally explode turbulence

[@williampalchak7574]

Is that a blower encased in something other than metal?

[@hankscorpio6111]

I've never seen it happen but I wonder if it wasn't a rupturing of a safety disc that went out? Some gen set's have them.

[@ewgenw]

It was a rupture of the high-pressure supply pipeline at the flange connection

[@rickgomez2885]

That was my first thought as well. I used to be an operator at a small power plant and I knew that if the condenser lost vacuum, it could blow the disc on the turbine exhaust hood although I have never seen this happen.

[@harrison00xXx]

so NO EXPLOSION stop with those midleading titles@@ewgenw

[@BVN-TEXAS]

Damn I guess you tell all the ladies it’s 10 inches too 😂😂😂

[@MrPWotan]

"explosion" Do you know the meaning of this word?

[@nunyabitnezz2802]

You haven’t seen many explosions, have you?

[@Less1leg2]

ooops boss, I forgots to keep the Jacking Oil on during run-up.

[@roddycreswell8613]

Where's the explosion? All I saw was a leak.

[@bigk4755]

CLICKBAIT! Y’all owe me an explosion.

[@MISTERLeSkid]

Wow. Some steam leaked out. It's a miracle no one got frizzy hair.

[@geniferteal4178]

You watch one steam explosion now you see them all.

[@fifiwoof1969]

The guy running around - is that after all the pressure has been released? There's no guards in place to protect him so did he shut it down before doing that?

[@ewgenw]

after 10 seconds, the protection valve was triggered due to a sharp drop in pressure in the main line

[@fifiwoof1969]

@@ewgenw does make it safe for him to be there unprotected?

[@q9260]

i waited for an explosion that never came.

[@mikerilling6515]

CLICKBAIT REPORTED AS SPAM/ MISLEADING

[@davidgraylord5977]

This is what the VA Hospitals are looking forward to with the new job requirements for powerhouse operators

[@Headcase0570]

Expected the turbine to enter low earth orbit, I am disappointed.

[@ricecooker3k]

chernobyl mini explosion toy set

[@unhippy1]

Output shaft seal let go by the looks of things

[@tri-washington3683]

The video title is a bit misleading, this actually isn't an explosion, but a leakage of steam, thankfully nobody was hurt however, that would've been terrible!

[@daveh9083]

Could be a rupture disk on the condenser, maybe lost cooling water.

[@daveh9083]

Also, if it was from the turbine you would probably see the lagging and insulation everywhere, and not from the ends so nothing to do with gland seal.

[@Thestorminator89]

to say i'm underwhelmed is an understatement.

[@rhettsdad608jv]

Labyrinth seal blew out. Not an explosion

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:24 Ahhm...I'm not sure I'd want to be the one to have to go running into there after that happened.

[@jimkellberg]

someone turned off the gland exhaust condenser fan

[@joedyeranch1]

explosion?

[@girthiusmaximius8486]

Less of an explosion and more of a fart.

[@Dykkermimosen]

Nvm the explosion. The plant looks like something from WWII. Or at least early fifties...

[@MartinchoDH]

00:25, a man hurry up to close the valve

[@roceye]

wait, they lived?

[@rtqii]

That turbine was just taking a 420 break.

[@leokimvideo]

Softest explosion i've ever witnessed

[@stephenpeacock8592]

For the masochistic non-empathetic people complaining the explosion is underwhelming. There's a good reason why you'll likely never ever have responsibility for equipment like this. For anyone who is researching this for professional development reasons, this is a very useful video. God help anyone who might have to work with people like you who want to see the biggest explosion possible when there are other people in the room. In addition, if you owned this equipment and that happened, you'd probably die of a heart attack, that 'overwhelming' enough for you?

[@jkrull13]

I'm running a t state of the art 670MW facility right now...and I really wanted to see the kaboom! Have previously worked in nuclear as well. I love a good arc flash too, molten metal is fun. But seriously watching switch gear get blown apart will make you wear your PPE and seeing the power of water induction turn a turbine into shrapnel will make you check your SH temps and attemperator flows more often. As an "expert" i was intrigued. To me that just looked like packing blow out on a before seat drain or seals failed. I have never worked with such a small machine so that didn't look like much nor does it mean much with out some kind of technical explanation.

[@Woodward06]

Eh.. seen more with a rupture disk when condenser goes positive. cooling tower pump failed and no one caught it

[@senjoronie3971]

Where's the "ka-boom" ??? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering "ka-boom" !!!