EP2087207B1 - Aube de turbine - Google Patents

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EP2087207B1
EP2087207B1 EP07821492.1A EP07821492A EP2087207B1 EP 2087207 B1 EP2087207 B1 EP 2087207B1 EP 07821492 A EP07821492 A EP 07821492A EP 2087207 B1 EP2087207 B1 EP 2087207B1
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Heinz-Jürgen GROSS
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01DNON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D5/00Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
    • F01D5/12Blades
    • F01D5/14Form or construction
    • F01D5/18Hollow blades, i.e. blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities; Heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades
    • F01D5/187Convection cooling
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01DNON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D5/00Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
    • F01D5/12Blades
    • F01D5/14Form or construction
    • F01D5/147Construction, i.e. structural features, e.g. of weight-saving hollow blades
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05DINDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2250/00Geometry
    • F05D2250/10Two-dimensional
    • F05D2250/18Two-dimensional patterned
    • F05D2250/181Two-dimensional patterned ridged
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05DINDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2250/00Geometry
    • F05D2250/20Three-dimensional
    • F05D2250/28Three-dimensional patterned
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05DINDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2250/00Geometry
    • F05D2250/30Arrangement of components
    • F05D2250/34Arrangement of components translated
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05DINDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2250/00Geometry
    • F05D2250/70Shape
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05DINDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2260/00Function
    • F05D2260/20Heat transfer, e.g. cooling
    • F05D2260/221Improvement of heat transfer
    • F05D2260/2214Improvement of heat transfer by increasing the heat transfer surface
    • F05D2260/22141Improvement of heat transfer by increasing the heat transfer surface using fins or ribs

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  • the invention relates to a turbine blade.
  • Turbine blades particularly turbine blades for gas turbines, are exposed during operation to high temperatures which rapidly exceed the limit of material stress. This applies in particular to the areas in the vicinity of the flow inlet edge.
  • it has long been known to cool turbine blades suitable, so that they have a higher temperature resistance. With turbine blades, which have a higher temperature resistance, higher energy efficiencies can be achieved in particular.
  • Cooling cooling is probably the most common type of blade cooling.
  • This type of cooling cooling air is passed through channels in the interior of the blade and uses the convective effect to dissipate the heat.
  • impingement cooling a cooling air flow impinges on the blade surface from the inside. In this way, a very good cooling effect is made possible at the point of impact, but this is limited only to the narrow area of the point of impact and the closer environment.
  • This type of cooling is therefore usually used for cooling the flow inlet edge of a turbine blade, which is exposed to high temperature loads.
  • film cooling cooling air is directed outward through openings in the turbine blade from inside the turbine blade. This cooling air flows around the turbine blade and forms an insulating layer between the hot process gas and the blade surface.
  • the types of cooling described are suitably combined depending on the application in order to achieve the most effective blade cooling possible.
  • coolants such as turbulators, which are usually provided in the form of low ribs, very common and for example from the EP 1 637 699 A2 known.
  • the fins are disposed within the convection flow provided cooling channels that run inside the turbine blade.
  • the incorporation of fins in the cooling channels causes the flow of cooling air in the boundary layers to be detached and entangled. Due to the forced disruption of the flow, the heat transfer can be increased in the presence of a temperature difference between the cooling channel wall and the cooling air.
  • the ribbing constantly causes the flow to form new "recovery areas" in which a substantial increase in the local heat transfer coefficient can be achieved.
  • cooling channels are often formed in turbine blades parallel to and close to the flow inlet edge, to which cooling air is supplied by further cooling channels formed in the blades.
  • the convective cooling of the flow inlet edge realized in this way is usually supplemented in the case of film-cooled blades by an impingement cooling of the inner wall of the cooling channel running close to the flow inlet edge.
  • convective cooling is intensified by turbulators disposed on the inner wall of the cooling duct.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a turbine blade whose flow inlet edge can be cooled more effectively compared to known solutions, both in existing as well as non-existing film cooling.
  • a turbine blade which has a plurality of ribs, which are arranged successively in a cooling channel which extends along a flow inlet edge, and in which each with two ribs a pair of ribs is formed, arranged the ribs in skating step shape are.
  • the inventively provided pairwise arrangement of the ribs in skate step shape causes over known solutions a greatly increased turbulence of the cooling air flowing in the cooling channel according to the invention, such that the cooling air flowing in the cooling channel from one rib of a rib-pair on the other rib of the ribs Pair is headed.
  • a greatly increased turbulence of the cooling air a greatly increased local heat transfer coefficient is connected, so that overall, compared to known solutions, a significantly more effective cooling, in particular in the region of the flow inlet edge, can be provided.
  • the turbine blade according to the invention can thus be exposed to higher gas temperatures, even if no film cooling is provided. If film cooling is provided, even higher gas temperatures are possible.
  • a high degree of turbulence is formed on the flowed-on ribs, which, in combination with impingement cooling effects and a strong increase in surface area on the cooling air side, leads to efficient use of cooling air and equalization of the temperature distribution.
  • the two ribs of a rib-pair are each formed as a guide element for a core flow of a cooling medium flowing in the cooling channel, such that the ribs direct the core flow of a rib of the rib-pair substantially transversely to the other rib of the rib-pair ,
  • a particularly large proportion namely the cooling medium stream flowing in the center of the channel, is guided as an impact cooling jet against the side surfaces of the downstream ribs, so that in the region of the ribbed pair a very high local heat transfer coefficient and a According strong trained cooling effect can be achieved.
  • a core flow of the medium flowing in the cooling channel is understood to mean that part of the cooling medium that flows essentially in the center of the channel, ie, that does not flow essentially along the channel walls.
  • the ribs according to the invention are not turbulators in the sense of EP 1 637 699 A2 but guide elements with which a significant proportion of the cooling medium can be deflected or diverted each.
  • the two ribs of a rib pair include a predetermined angle, and a total cooling capacity of the two ribs of a rib pair is adjusted over the angle to a predetermined cooling requirement for the flow inlet edge in the vicinity of the rib pair.
  • the extent of the turbulence of the cooling air and thus also the local heat transfer coefficient can be selectively influenced, so that cooling adapted to a local cooling requirement for the flow inlet edge can be realized.
  • the cooling ability of a pair of ribs by increasing the angle of the two ribs of the rib-pair is included, be enlarged.
  • the temperature distribution at the flow inlet edge can be "made uniform" by means of this practical development, since according to the invention comparatively hot spots of the flow inlet edge by appropriately trained rib pairs a correspondingly strong cooling and vice versa, so that an effective cooling of the flow inlet edge can be realized which counteracts an inhomogeneous temperature distribution.
  • An inhomogeneous temperature distribution is associated with high thermal loads, which adversely affect the life of the turbine. This applies in particular to turbine blades which are used in axially through-flow turbines in which an inhomogeneous temperature distribution along the radial direction is formed for the flow inlet edge.
  • the ribs extend projecting from a wall bounding the cooling channel into the cooling channel, the ribs preferably being formed integrally with the bounding wall.
  • the rib pairs are mounted within an insert which is inserted into the cooling channel.
  • an insert is provided according to the invention, which can optionally be removed from the turbine blade, preferably in the form of a guide vane, to adapt, for example, the angular position of the rib pairs of a given application.
  • the casting of the turbine blade can thus be kept simple so that the turbine blade according to the invention can also be produced without elaborately designed casting cores.
  • the cooling channel extends parallel to the flow inlet edge continuously through the Turbine blade to provide effective cooling along the entire extent of the flow entry edge.
  • FIG. 1 shows a sketch-like sectional view of a turbine blade 10 according to the invention by the flow inlet edge 12.
  • the section according to the sectional area AA of FIG. 1 is in FIG. 3 this is a sketch-like sectional view of the front portion of a turbine blade 10 according to the invention.
  • a cooling channel 14 extending parallel to the flow inlet edge 12 is formed near the flow inlet edge 12 (ie a radially extending channel 14 in the case of axially through-flowed turbines).
  • the cooling channel 14 are in this successively a number of rib pairs 24 (in FIG. 1 hidden), wherein the individual ribs 18 of each pair of ribs 24 are set transversely to each other by a predetermined angle ⁇ .
  • the ribs 18 of a pair of ribs 24, viewed along the cooling channel extension, are arranged offset to one another.
  • the ribs 18 of each pair 24 and the ribs 18 of immediately adjacent pairs 24 are thus arranged overlapping in skating step shape.
  • the ribs 18 according to the invention are designed as guide elements for the cooling air flowing in the center of the cooling channel 14 in order to mutually guide the substantial portion of the cooling air flowing there to the side surfaces of the following ribs 18. Accordingly, the ribs 18 according to the invention protrude considerably further into the cooling channel 18 than the turbulators of FIG EP 1 637 699 A2 which are compared to the ribs 18 only to be near the surface and also do not conduct or deflect a significant proportion of the cooling air.
  • the cooling air When flowing through the cooling channel 14, the cooling air is alternately deflected by the individual ribs 18 of each pair 24. A high degree of turbulence is formed at the bulging ribs 18, which flows in a transverse direction, which, in combination with impingement cooling effects and the associated cooling air-side surface enlargement, leads to an efficient use of cooling air.
  • the angle ⁇ in the central region of the turbine blade 10 is greater than in the edge regions of the turbine blade 10, so as to cool the middle, during operation usually strongly heated area of the flow inlet edge 12 stronger than the edge regions of the flow inlet edge 12 by an enlargement of the angle ⁇ , the cooling air is deflected more strongly, with a concomitant increased turbulence, which ultimately has a more pronounced increase in the local heat transfer coefficient compared to smaller angles.
  • the inhomogeneous temperature distribution which forms along the flow inlet edge 12 when the turbine blade 10 is used can be counteracted.
  • Suitable values for the angle ⁇ , which are adapted to the respective cooling requirement, according to the invention are in the range of about 60 ° to 90 °.
  • FIG. 2 is the sketchy sectional view of the front portion of the turbine blade 10 according to the invention according to FIG. 1
  • the individual ribs 18 of a pair 24 extend predominantly from a front wall 16 of the cooling channel 14 to a rear wall 20 of the cooling channel 14.
  • the ribs 18 may also be part of an insert which can be inserted in the cooling channel 14.
  • the cooling air can preferably be guided in the direction of the front wall 16 by suitably setting the angular position ⁇ , in order to achieve the most effective possible cooling of the flow inlet edge 12.
  • provided angular sizes are in the range of about 30 ° to 60 °.

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Claims (6)

  1. Aube (10) de turbine ayant plusieurs ailettes (8), qui se succèdent dans un conduit (14) de refroidissement s'étendant suivant un bord (12) d'entrée de l'écoulement, et dans laquelle il est formé par respectivement deux ailettes (18) une paire (24) d'ailettes, dont les ailettes (18) sont disposées sous la forme d'un pas de patin à glace, caractérisée
    en ce que les deux ailettes (18) d'une paire (24) d'ailettes sont respectivement sous la forme d'un élément de conduite d'un courant de coeur d'un fluide de refroidissement passant dans le conduit (14) de refroidissement, de manière à ce que les ailettes (18) conduisent le courant de coeur sensiblement transversalement d'une ailette (18) de la paire (24) d'ailettes à l'autre nervure (18) de la paire (24) d'ailettes.
  2. Aube (10) de turbine suivant la revendication 1,
    dans laquelle les deux ailettes (18) d'une paire (24) d'ailettes font un angle défini à l'avance et en ce qu'un pouvoir global de refroidissement des deux ailettes (18) d'une paire (24) d'ailettes est adapté par l'angle à un besoin de refroidissement donné à l'avance du bord (12) d'entrée d'écoulement à l'entour de la paire (24) d'ailettes.
  3. Aube (10) de turbine suivant la revendication 1 ou 2, dans laquelle les ailettes (18) s'étendent dans le conduit (14) de refroidissement en partant d'une paroi (16, 20) délimitant le conduit (14) de refroidissement.
  4. Aube (10) de turbine suivant la revendication 3,
    dans laquelle les ailettes (18) sont constituées d'une seule pièce avec la paroi (16, 20) de limitation.
  5. Aube (10) de turbine suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 3,
    dans laquelle les paires (24) d'ailettes sont mises à l'intérieur d'un insert qui est poussé dans le conduit (14) de refroidissement.
  6. Aube (10) de turbine suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que le conduit (14) de refroidissement s'étend parallèlement au bord (12) d'entrée de l'écoulement de bout en bout dans l'aube (10) de turbine.
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