The steam lines supply steam to drive the propulsion turbine (which drives one propeller through reduction gears) and the turbogenerator (which generates electrical power).
The propshaft from the forward propulsion turbine can be seen poking through the bulkhead. Because the Project 667 submarines have two propellers and two turbines in different compartments, the propshafts have unequal lengths and the aft turbine is displaced slightly to starboard.
The steam from the turbines is exhausted into two condensers, which are tubes surrounding a pipe with cold seawater circulating through it. The steam condenses on the circulating water pipe, creating a vacuum inside the condenser. The circulating water can be driven by pumps or the natural flow created by scoops on the outside of the hull at higher speeds. The scoops and discharge vents can be seen here.
The condensed steam is pumped via condensate pumps (not shown) to the feedwater system, which pumps the water into the steam generators, where the heat of the reactor turns the feedwater back into steam. Visible in the photo are two backup feed pumps (the main feed pumps are further forward).
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subs have got to be a fricking nightmare to work on god damn
What morons designed this, what poor devils assembled it, no doubt it's sailors knew they were doomed as soon as stepping aboard
Have you looked inside any submarine ever?
Here's what the first purpose built submarine looked like.
W-what am i looking at?
My mind can't even.
Looks like schizopunk
It's a gateway to mechanical hell.
damm that sexy steam pipe.
The submarine knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.
>autism: the boat
>200k years of evolution
>everything we do still depends on moving steam around
lame ass apes
>he doesn't respect the mastery of entropy.
Water ain't nothing to frick with.
Don't anger the pipes Artyom.
>2,000 million years of evolution
>still breathing.
How do you get to any of those valves?
How do you repair any of that?
I came
>ten's of thousands of control valves
>you must memorize how to operate them in the complete dark
>in the dark while the freezing water pours in around you
>depth charges go off in the distance
Also you have to be a manlet to be a submariner. Truly hell.
the front fell off
The complexity of this machine scares me.
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