EP2242932B1 - Ventilateur méridional - Google Patents

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EP2242932B1
EP2242932B1 EP09701751.1A EP09701751A EP2242932B1 EP 2242932 B1 EP2242932 B1 EP 2242932B1 EP 09701751 A EP09701751 A EP 09701751A EP 2242932 B1 EP2242932 B1 EP 2242932B1
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Anthony Geoffrey Sheard
Allessandro Corsini
Franco Rispoli
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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
    • F04D29/26—Rotors specially for elastic fluids
    • F04D29/32—Rotors specially for elastic fluids for axial flow pumps
    • F04D29/38—Blades
    • F04D29/384—Blades characterised by form
    • 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
    • F04D29/66—Combating cavitation, whirls, noise, vibration or the like; Balancing
    • F04D29/68—Combating cavitation, whirls, noise, vibration or the like; Balancing by influencing boundary layers
    • F04D29/681—Combating cavitation, whirls, noise, vibration or the like; Balancing by influencing boundary layers especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps

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  • the present invention relates to meridional fans, particularly but not exclusively, to axial flow fans for large scale air ventilation and/or heating purposes in industrial buildings, industrial air conditioning units, underground railway systems and similar large infrastructures.
  • Such fans are typically located in a duct system and it is desirable for efficiency purposes for the area swept by the fan blades to be located in a cylindrical ring part of the duct system with a minimal clearance between the tips of the fan blades and the surface of the cylindrical ring.
  • the outer surface of the tips of the fan blades have a contour in the form of an arc corresponding to the circle swept by the fan blades.
  • the fan aerodynamic work input establishes a higher pressure downstream of the fan than upstream.
  • the pressure rise is obtained by means of aerodynamic forces at play when the air flows about the rotor blades.
  • Owing to the design of the blade a pressure difference is established between the blade pressure surface or side and its suction surface or side. The result of this pressure difference means that air tends to spill back over the tip of the fan from the high pressure to the low-pressure side. This air movement reduces the efficiency of the fan and also increases the noise generated by the fan.
  • a known method for reducing the amount of flow back air is to keep the gap between the fan tips and the cylindrical ring to a minimum and also to extend the length of the gap by incorporating on the tip of each blade an extending flange which increases the length of the gap in the direction of the leakage flow and thereby increases the resistance to flow back through the gap.
  • the present invention seeks to provide an improved form of a fan blade tip which increases the efficiency of the fan and at the same time reduces the noise generated by the fan.
  • the fan tips have, in the past, been made as a uniform as possible, but it has now, surprisingly, been discovered that a non uniform profile for certain sections of the blade tip can be advantageous in increasing the efficiency of the fan, reducing the power required to drive the fan at a given speed and pressure, and at the same time reducing the noise generated by the fan.
  • the uniform profile of the known conventional blade tips lead to the generation of tight vortices at the blade tip and it is believed that these vortices, when they reach a critical state suddenly expand very rapidly, to the extent of provoking vortex bursting or collapse, which generates a great deal of turbulence. This adverse effect is amplified if the vortices impinge on an adjacent fan blade at which point they burst on impact.
  • GB 2050530 (Papst) (D3) discloses an axial fan for impelling air through a duct and has a plurality of fan blades with peripheral blade tips having a leading edge, a trailing edge and a tip outer surface defining a leakage path between the tip and the duct ring.
  • the tip has a flange extending in the axial direction, but the whole tenor of the specification is that this is on the upstream side and it is entirely fortuitous that, for manufacturing reasons, certain embodiments have the tip extending onto the downstream high-pressure side as well. However there is no disclosure or teaching in the specification that it is important that the tip flange and hence the leakage path should extend into the high-pressure side.
  • FR 2753495 (Valeo) (D2) discloses a fan rotatable in a duct and in the leakage path between the outer tips of the fan blades and the duct provides means in the form of protuberances to minimise the width of the leakage path. There is no teaching of the desirability of having the leakage path on the high-pressure side nor the advantages of having a non-uniform leading edge.
  • a meridional fan adapted to be rotatably mounted in a duct ring of circular cross section for impelling air through the duct, and having a plurality of fan blades with peripheral blade tips having a width defining an arc with a circumferential extent describing, in operation, a circular path adjacent the duct ring, the blade tips each having a leading edge, a trailing edge and a tip outer surface, a leakage path being formed between the tip outer surface and the duct ring, at least one of the edges and/or the outer surface having a non-uniform profile for influencing the flow of air through the flow leakage path, characterised in that the or each tip has a flange extending in the axial direction on the downstream, high pressure side of the fan, which increases the length of the leakage flow path and wherein the leading edge of the flange has a non-uniform profile so that the circumferential axial extent of the leading edge of the flange varies along the width of the blade
  • the leading edge of the flange has an undulating profile.
  • the trailing edge of the blade tip includes a stepped shoulder extending at least partially across the width of the blade tip.
  • the stepped shoulder consists of a plurality of stepped recesses spaced across the width of the blade tip. These stepped recesses preferably are regularly spaced, but may be irregularly spaced.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a schematic cross-section through the axis of the fan and cylindrical ring 3 illustrating the peripheral flange 5 with its non-uniform leading edge 6.
  • the flange extends axially downstream on the high pressure side of the fan blade.
  • the effect of the high pressure on the blade pressure side means that air tends to spill backwards at the periphery of the fan tips through the gap between the fan tip 4 and the cylindrical ring 3 as illustrated by the arrow 7.
  • the gap thus forms a leakage flow path for air to flow from the high pressure, downstream side of the blade back to the upstream low pressure side and it is desirable to reduce this flow to a minimum.
  • the maximum pressure on the downside of the fan occurs in the boundary layer adjacent the fan face.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a scrap view of a fan blade 2 and its tip 4 in the direction of the arrow B in which the outer surface 8 of the tip has a non uniform profile in the circumferential direction formed by undulations. These undulations may be regular or irregular in size.
  • Figure 6 illustrates an alternative embodiment of a rear view of the blade tip in which a continuous stepped shoulder 9 is provided across the full width of the fan blade.
  • the peripherally extending flange 5 has a non-uniform dimension in the circumferential direction formed by a gradual curving of the leading edge 6.
  • the variation in the circumferential extent of the flange may be formed in a stepped manner with regular or irregularly spaced steps.

Claims (9)

  1. Ventilateur méridional adapté pour être monté à rotation dans une couronne de canalisation (3) de section transversale circulaire pour refouler de l'air à travers la canalisation et ayant une pluralité de pales de ventilateur (2) avec des pointes de pale périphériques (4) ayant une largeur définissant un arc avec une extension circonférentielle décrivant en service un trajet circulaire adjacent à la couronne de canalisation (3), les pointes de pale (4) ayant chacun un bord d'attaque (6), un bord de fuite (9) et une surface externe de pointe (8), un trajet de fuite étant formé contre la surface externe de pointe (8) et la couronne de canalisation (3), au moins l'un des bords (6) et/ou de la surface externe (8) ayant un profil non uniforme pour influencer l'écoulement d'air à travers le trajet de fuite d'écoulement, caractérisé en ce que :
    la ou chaque pointe (4) présente une bride (5) s'étendant dans la direction axiale du côté aval sous pression élevée du ventilateur, qui augmente la longueur du trajet d'écoulement de fuite, et dans lequel le bord d'attaque (6) de la bride (5) un profil non uniforme de sorte que l'extension axiale circonférentielle du bord d'attaque (6) de la bride (5) varie sur la largeur de la pointe de pale.
  2. Ventilateur selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le bord d'attaque (6) de la bride a un profil ondulé.
  3. Ventilateur selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel le bord de fuite de la pointe du ventilateur comprend un épaulement étagé (9) s'étendant au moins en partie en travers de la largeur de la pointe de pale (3).
  4. Ventilateur selon la revendication 3, dans lequel l'épaulement étagé (9) comprend une pluralité de cavités étagées espacées en travers de la largeur de la pointe de pale.
  5. Ventilateur selon la revendication 5, dans lequel les cavités étagées (9) sont régulièrement espacées en travers de la largeur de la pointe de pale.
  6. Ventilateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel la surface de pointe externe (8) a un profil non uniforme dans la direction circonférentielle.
  7. Ventilateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel la surface de pointe externe (8) a un profil non uniforme dans la direction axiale.
  8. Ventilateur selon la revendication 6 ou 7, dans lequel le profil non uniforme est formé par des ondulations ou par des rainures (10) ou par un de leurs mélanges.
  9. Ventilateur selon la revendication 9, dans lequel les ondulations et/ou les rainures (10) s'étendent en partie ou complètement sur l'extension axiale de la surface externe.
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