EP0194957B1 - Système de réduction des pertes des extrémités des aubes tournants auprès des compresseurs - Google Patents
Système de réduction des pertes des extrémités des aubes tournants auprès des compresseurs Download PDFInfo
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
- F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
- F01D5/00—Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
- F01D5/12—Blades
- F01D5/14—Form or construction
- F01D5/20—Specially-shaped blade tips to seal space between tips and stator
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
- F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
- F01D11/00—Preventing or minimising internal leakage of working-fluid, e.g. between stages
- F01D11/08—Preventing or minimising internal leakage of working-fluid, e.g. between stages for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
- F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
- F04D29/00—Details, component parts, or accessories
- F04D29/08—Sealings
- F04D29/16—Sealings between pressure and suction sides
- F04D29/161—Sealings between pressure and suction sides especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
- F04D29/164—Sealings between pressure and suction sides especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps of an axial flow wheel
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- This invention relates to axial flow fans/com- pressors of gas turbine engines and particularly to the relationship of the tips of the blades to the adjacent shroud or rub strip.
- a fan or compressor according to the precharacterizing portion of claim 1 is disclosed in US-A 4 239 452 and in US-A 4 238 170.
- the tips of the compressor blades extend adjacent the surrounding shroud or rub strip that is trenched or recessed to the dimension complementary to the outer station and tip of the blade.
- the blades which move radially outward during engine acceleration, machine the groove. Obviously, this technique assures a close fit of the mating parts and helps in avoiding leakage around the tips of the blade.
- FIG. 1 discloses in Fig. 1 an ambodiment similar to the US patents referred to.
- Fig. 2 of CH-A 414 681 the trench receiving the blade tips is angularly disposed with respect to the outer flow path surface but the blade tip is parallel with respect thereto.
- a stator vane is also shown having a tip extending into a trench at the inner flow path wall. The tip of the stator vane and the outwardly oriented surface of the trench are angularly disposed with respect to the inner flow path wall. The vane is adapted to extend deeper into the trench at its leading edge. There is no leakage opposing pumping action against a downstream vertical side wall of the trench.
- a ducted propeller is disclosed wherein the inwardly facing surface of the trench converges or diverges with respect to the outer flow path surface, but the blade is parallel with respect thereto, thus providing the disadvantage referred to above.
- GB-A 882 015 the blade tip and the inwardly oriented surface of the trench are angularly disposed with respect to the outer flow path surface.
- the maximum penetration is at the blade leading edge.
- GB-A 2 034 435, Fig. 4 wherein a turbine blade tip is shown received in an annular trench in the outer flow path wall. Cooling fluid under pressure is discharged into a cavity formed between the turbine blade tip and the trench to oppose blade tip leakage. The inwardly oriented surface of the trench and a portion of the turbine blade tip are angularly disposed with respect to the outer flow path wall.
- the object of the invention is to provide a fan or compressor of the type disclosed avoiding or reducing leakage around the blade tip without adversely affecting performance.
- the blade tip does not penetrate along its full width into the trench when the operating speed causing penetration is obtained.
- the tip aft portion first penetrates into the trench. This allows deeper penetration without causing too substantial turbulence and accordingly penetration is acceptable at low operation speeds to reduce or avoid leakage in the low speed operating range.
- the angular contour is designed to effectuate a closure in the gap between the inner wall of the trench and the tip of the blad upon displacement of the compressor and/or fan blade arising out of the growth of the materials resulting from stable hand temperature operating conditions.
- the invention in its preferred embodiment is illustrated for use in the lower temperature stations of a gas turbine engine and particularly in the compressor section where a soft material circumscribes the engine's inner diameter of the engine case and is abradable so as to be susceptible of being machined by the operation of the rotating blades.
- a soft material circumscribes the engine's inner diameter of the engine case and is abradable so as to be susceptible of being machined by the operation of the rotating blades.
- the blades at zero rotational speeds are spaced from the inner diameter of the rub strip and when accelerated to its highest operating speed, cut into the rub strip to define the trench.
- the trench shape can be machined out prior to engine operation. What is considered the improvement by the teachings of this invention is the particular contour of the tips of the blades and its cooperating trench.
- FIG. 1 A portion of a compression section 10 of an axial flow compressor of a gas turbine engine is illustrated in Fig. 1.
- a flow path 16 for working medium gases extends axially through the compression section.
- An outer wall 18 having an inwardly facing surface to 20 and an inner wall 22 having an outwardly facing surface 24 form the flow path.
- a plurality of axially spaced rows of rotor blades as represented by the single blades 26 extend outwardly from the rotor 12 across the flow path into proximity with the outer wall.
- Each blade has an unshrouded tip 28 and is contoured to an airfoil cross section. Accordingly, each blade has a pressure side and a suction side and, as illustrated, has an upstream edge 30 and a downstream edge 32.
- Extending over the tips of each row of rotor blades is a stator seal land 34.
- Each land has a circumferentially extending groove or trench 36 formed therein to a depth D at an inwardly facing surface 37 thereof paralleling the
- a plurality of rows of stator vanes represented by the single vanes 38 are cantilevered inwardly from the stator 14 across the flow path 16 into proximity with the inner wall 22.
- Each vane which in this illustration has an unshrouded tip 40, is contoured to an airfoil section. Accordingly, each vane has a pressure side and a suction side and, as illustrated, has an upstream edge 42 and a downstream edge 44.
- Extending over the tips of each row of stator vanes is a rotor seal land 46. Each land has a circumferentially extending groove 48 formed therein.
- the blade tips 28 are spaced from the inwardly facing surface 37.
- the gap between tips and surface enables assembly of the components.
- the rotor tips grow radially outward machining the groove 36 in the abradable material of the stator seal land 34.
- the point of closes proximity of the blades to the bottom of the groove is referred to as the «pinch point» and normally occurs during a transient engine operating to a maximum speed or power condition.
- the outer wall including the land moves both axially and radially relative to the blade tips to a position at which the blade tips 28 and inner surface 37 define a gap D.
- Fig. 2 which is a prior art design is that the blade 50 penetration along its full width into the trench 54 toward the inwardly facing surface 52 as operating speed/increases causes a substantial pumping of air against the trench vertical wall 53 adjacent the blade trailing edge which creates turbulence.
- the turbulence as shown by arrow A essentially becomes a blockage in the flow path of the gas engine's working medium and adversely affects performance.
- the maximum depth of blade tip penetration must be controlled to avoid unreasonable turbulence losses at the maximum operating speed. At low speed operating the blade 50 will not penetrate into the trench 54 and leakage can readily occur between the flow path outer wall and the blade tip.
- the full width of the blade works on the air and has the tendency of over pressurizing this air and hence, creates the undesirable turbulence.
- the tip of the blade and the inwardly facing surface 37 of the trench 36 are contoured to be angularly disposed relative to the outer gas path wall 18. This is best seen in Fig. 3.
- the trench 36 is formed to define the contour of the inwardly facing surface 37.
- the depth of the trench 36 as measured from the inwardly facing surface 20 of the outer wall 18 increases toward the vertical side wall 39 of the tench 36 adjacent the blade trailing edge 32.
- the axial extension of surface 37 relative to the flow path defined by surface 20 forms angle alpha a.
- the tip 28 of the blade 26 slants from a given diameter at the leading edge 30 to a higher diameter at the trailing edge 32.
- Fig. 4 exemplifies another configuration on how the tip can be contoured to combat the leakage problem alluded to in the above.
- the tip of blade 70 is contoured in a sawtooth fashion providing a plurality of parallel channels 72.
- the inner surface 74 is angularly disposed to the gas path wall providing similar benefits as was described above.
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US71027085A | 1985-03-11 | 1985-03-11 | |
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EP0194957A2 EP0194957A2 (fr) | 1986-09-17 |
EP0194957A3 EP0194957A3 (en) | 1987-06-03 |
EP0194957B1 true EP0194957B1 (fr) | 1990-01-31 |
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DE (2) | DE194957T1 (fr) |
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JPS6363726A (ja) * | 1986-09-05 | 1988-03-22 | Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co Ltd | 表面処理用組成物 |
EP0528138B1 (fr) * | 1991-08-08 | 1995-05-17 | Asea Brown Boveri Ag | Anneau d'aube de turbine axiale |
DE59201833D1 (de) * | 1991-10-08 | 1995-05-11 | Asea Brown Boveri | Deckband für axialdurchströmte Turbine. |
DE19738671B4 (de) * | 1997-09-04 | 2007-03-01 | Alstom | Dichtungsanordnung |
EP1840332A1 (fr) * | 2006-03-27 | 2007-10-03 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Aube de turbomachine et turbomachine |
WO2014189564A2 (fr) * | 2013-03-06 | 2014-11-27 | United Technologies Corporation | Rotor comportant une prétranchée pour turbine à gaz |
CN112360816A (zh) * | 2020-12-08 | 2021-02-12 | 成都成发科能动力工程有限公司 | 一种轴流压缩机承缸和应用其的轴流压缩机 |
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CH221391A (de) * | 1939-04-06 | 1942-05-31 | Maschf Augsburg Nuernberg Ag | Spaltabdichtungseinrichtung an den Köpfen der Beschaufelung von Strömungsmaschinen, insbesondere Dampfturbinen. |
GB882015A (en) * | 1957-04-18 | 1961-11-08 | English Electric Co Ltd | Improvements in and relating to high speed axial flow compressors |
DE1057137B (de) * | 1958-03-07 | 1959-05-14 | Maschf Augsburg Nuernberg Ag | Schaufelspaltdichtung bei Kreiselradmaschinen mit deckband- oder deckenscheibenlosenLaufraedern |
FR1348186A (fr) * | 1963-02-19 | 1964-01-04 | Hélice carénée | |
CH414681A (de) * | 1964-11-24 | 1966-06-15 | Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie | Strömungsmaschine |
US3575523A (en) * | 1968-12-05 | 1971-04-20 | Us Navy | Labyrinth seal for axial flow fluid machines |
GB2034435A (en) * | 1978-10-24 | 1980-06-04 | Gerry U | Fluid rotary power conversion means |
US4645417A (en) * | 1984-02-06 | 1987-02-24 | General Electric Company | Compressor casing recess |
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- 1986-03-06 DE DE198686630032T patent/DE194957T1/de active Pending
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EP0194957A2 (fr) | 1986-09-17 |
DE3668661D1 (de) | 1990-03-08 |
EP0194957A3 (en) | 1987-06-03 |
JPS61207802A (ja) | 1986-09-16 |
DE194957T1 (de) | 1987-03-19 |
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