EP3587743B1 - Cooling device for a turbine-engine housing - Google Patents

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EP3587743B1
EP3587743B1 EP19182042.2A EP19182042A EP3587743B1 EP 3587743 B1 EP3587743 B1 EP 3587743B1 EP 19182042 A EP19182042 A EP 19182042A EP 3587743 B1 EP3587743 B1 EP 3587743B1
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Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel
Etienne Gérard Joseph CANELLE
Emeric Christian Amaury D'herbigny
Pierrick Bernard Jean
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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
    • F01D11/14—Adjusting or regulating tip-clearance, i.e. distance between rotor-blade tips and stator casing
    • F01D11/20—Actively adjusting tip-clearance
    • F01D11/24—Actively adjusting tip-clearance by selectively cooling-heating stator or rotor components
    • 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
    • F01D25/00—Component parts, details, or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, other groups
    • F01D25/08—Cooling; Heating; Heat-insulation
    • F01D25/12—Cooling
    • 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
    • F01D25/00—Component parts, details, or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, other groups
    • F01D25/08—Cooling; Heating; Heat-insulation
    • F01D25/14—Casings modified therefor
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2260/00—Function
    • F05D2260/20—Heat transfer, e.g. cooling
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2260/00—Function
    • F05D2260/20—Heat transfer, e.g. cooling
    • F05D2260/201—Heat transfer, e.g. cooling by impingement of a fluid
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2260/00—Function
    • F05D2260/20—Heat transfer, e.g. cooling
    • F05D2260/232—Heat transfer, e.g. cooling characterized by the cooling medium

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  • the subject of the invention is a device for cooling a turbomachine casing by a flow of gas.
  • a method widely used for adjusting the clearances in turbomachines, between the fixed and mobile blades on the one hand, the rotor and the stator to which they are attached on the other hand, consists in blowing a flow of fresh gas on the stator housing. to produce thermal shrinkage of its diameter.
  • the flow is generally a small part of the flow of gases from the vein of the turbomachine, which is withdrawn from compressors where the gas is at high pressure and still fresh, which is allowed to circulate in conduits along the vein and that we blow on the much hotter turbines of the machine.
  • the device traditionally comprises annular ramps surrounding the stator casing at a distance from it and provided with blowing orifices directed towards the casing.
  • the document US 6,149,074 A describes such a cooling device.
  • a disadvantage of this device is a lack of precision.
  • the position of the ramp cannot always be kept optimal because of the deformations, in particular the differential thermal expansions due to different heating, undergone by the machine during operation and the manufacturing tolerances of the blowing device comprising the ramps.
  • These differential deformations and expansions may amount to moving the ramps both in the axial direction and in the radial direction of the casing, especially since the latter is generally conical.
  • the ramps can thus be located next to the places of the casing which were supposed to undergo the blowing (normally the most rigid parts, around the circular ribs which stiffen it, and which determines these dimensions well), and their distance from the casing can also be out of order, and even disappear in certain situations.
  • a device in which the ramps are assembled to the housing is the subject of the document EP 2236772 A2 .
  • the ramps are made up of an interior sheet provided with the blowing openings, an exterior sheet delimiting a blowing chamber with the interior sheet, and an intermediate sheet allowing equalization of the air flows towards the blowing openings. These sheets are provided with superimposed edges and screwed to retaining lugs on the casing.
  • the structure is relatively complex, and positional errors, sufficiently large in this field where very high precision is desired, risk appearing in the absence of special precautions during assembly.
  • the invention is therefore based mainly on the connection to the casing of the end of the blowing device, that is to say the sheet through which the gas is blown, which is parallel to the casing and maintained at a constant distance and well. determined by the casing, thanks to the two stop supports obtained in perpendicular directions.
  • the geometric blowing conditions thus remain uniform regardless of the changes in the operation of the machine and the deformations undergone by the various parts, which do not affect this almost indeformable junction of the casing and the end of the blowing device.
  • the protruding reliefs on the casing may be provided with discharge openings.
  • the collector box comprises edges respectively parallel to the edges of the sheet and placed on them; this arrangement, especially if the sheet comprises a first essentially plane edge and a second edge essentially perpendicular to the first edge, makes it possible to easily assemble the collector box to the sheet.
  • the connector is elbow and sliding through a wall of the housing, a wall of the capacity or both, which makes it possible to compensate for differential expansions in the directions of the sliding movement, or possibly any direction.
  • Another aspect of the invention is a turbomachine comprising such a cooling device, the sheet then being able to advantageously be situated around a portion of the casing which is provided with a circular rib.
  • the cooling device may also comprise a plurality of sheets and manifold boxes respectively associated with the sheets, the sheets and boxes form successive rings around the casing in the axial direction of the casing.
  • a turbomachine turbine comprises a casing 1 around an axial direction X.
  • the casing 1 comprises a skin 2 of conical shape regularly reinforced by circular ribs 3 and which therefore define more rigid annular portions of the casing 1.
  • a cooling device comprises rings 4 surrounding the casing 1, resting on circular bands of the skin 2 and preferably mounted in front of the ribs 3.
  • the rings 4 are connected to a fresh gas tank, here an air supply box 5, which extends at some distance from them, by fittings 6 having an elbow shape.
  • the figure 2 shows in detail one of the rings 4 of the device. It comprises a sheet 7 of annular and conical shape, unitary in the axial direction X (possibly composed of angular sectors assembled together) placed on the skin 2 while being mounted around it and a collector box 8 covering the sheet 7.
  • the figure 3 shows that the sheet 7 comprises a main part 9, foraminous (crossing multiple holes) and two side edges 10 and 11.
  • the sheet 7 has the same taper as the portion of the skin 2 on which it extends, so that the main part 9 is parallel to the skin 2 and separated from it by a blowing chamber 12 of a constant depth of a few millimeters (for example 2 millimeters).
  • a first side edge 10 is essentially plane and extends perpendicular to the axial direction X , while the second side edge 11 (at a larger diameter of the sheet 7) is essentially cylindrical.
  • Skin 2 ( figure 4 ) is provided with two reliefs 13 and 14 rigid, annular and protrusions in the form of ribs, intended to receive the lateral edges 10 and 11 respectively in order to establish support or stop states.
  • the first lateral edge 10 abuts against a lateral face of the relief 13 which is flat and oriented in the axial direction X, while the second lateral edge 11 rests on an outer face, cylindrical and of the same diameter as it and oriented in the direction radial R, of the other relief 14.
  • the latter is provided with evacuation slots 15 regularly distributed over its circumference to allow the evacuation of the blowing chamber 12.
  • the collector housing 8 is also of annular shape and comprises ( figure 5 ) a first lateral edge 16 plane perpendicular to the axial direction X and a second lateral edge 17, opposite, directed in this axial direction X and cylindrical or slightly conical.
  • the side edges 16 and 17 respectively have the same directions as the side edges 10 and 11 of the sheet 7, and they can be laid on them and fixed to them by brazing, welding or otherwise.
  • the side edges 10 and 11 of the sheet 7 are likewise fixed to the reliefs 13 and 14 by brazing, welding or otherwise.
  • the collector housing 8 is furthermore formed of a continuous sheet between the side edges 16 and 17, which is bulging outward in the radial direction R and opens only on the inner radial side, where the collector housing 8 covers the main part 9 of the sheet 7. The latter therefore separates the blowing chamber 12 from a distribution chamber 18 located outside radially to it and delimited by the manifold housing 8.
  • the wall of the collector box 8 is however pierced at the location of the connector 6.
  • the latter passes through it by an axial branch 19 and is connected to the supply box 5 by passing through its wall by another branch 20 oblique and separated from the previous by an elbow 21.
  • the ends of the branches 19 and 20 penetrate into the collector housing 8 and the supply housing 5 by junctions which allow to slide through their walls, in order to accommodate the device to variations in positions, due for example to thermal expansions in the machine, in particular between the housing 1 and the power supply unit 5.
  • a single connector 6 has been shown between the supply unit 5 and each of the rings 4.
  • Several connectors 6 could be provided for each of the rings 4, distributed around their circumference. It would then be advisable to compartmentalize the inside of the manifold boxes 8 by partitions, in order to ensure equal flow therein.
  • the supply unit 5, common to all the connections 6, is connected to the compressor of the machine, or possibly to another source of compressed air, by a pipe 22 which has only been sketched out here.
  • the compressed air withdrawn from the compressors arrives in the supply box 5 through the pipe 22, then is distributed by the fittings 6 in the manifold boxes 8 and is distributed in angular direction in their distribution chambers 18, then passes through the sheets 7 by their holes to enter the blowing chambers and lick the skin 2 at the location of the stiffeners 3, before being discharged to the outside through the slots 15.
  • the uniform depth of the blowing chambers 12 guarantees that the air flows lick each portion of the skin 2 invariably, which makes it possible to predict the thermal shrinkages that are imposed with good precision.
  • the value of the flow rate can conventionally be regulated by a valve placed for example on the pipe 22.

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Le sujet de l'invention est un dispositif de refroidissement d'un carter de turbomachine par un écoulement de gaz.The subject of the invention is a device for cooling a turbomachine casing by a flow of gas.

Un procédé très employé pour régler les jeux dans les turbomachines, entre les aubes fixes et mobiles d'une part, le rotor et le stator auxquels elles sont fixées d'autre part, consiste à souffler un écoulement de gaz frais sur le carter du stator pour produire une rétraction thermique de son diamètre. L'écoulement est généralement une petite partie de l'écoulement des gaz de la veine de la turbomachine, qu'on soutire aux compresseurs où le gaz est à haute pression et encore frais, qu'on laisse circuler dans des conduits longeant la veine et qu'on souffle sur les turbines beaucoup plus chaudes, de la machine. Le dispositif comprend traditionnellement des rampes annulaires entourant le carter du stator à distance de lui et pourvues d'orifices de soufflage dirigés vers le carter. Le document US 6 149 074 A décrit un tel dispositif de refroidissement.A method widely used for adjusting the clearances in turbomachines, between the fixed and mobile blades on the one hand, the rotor and the stator to which they are attached on the other hand, consists in blowing a flow of fresh gas on the stator housing. to produce thermal shrinkage of its diameter. The flow is generally a small part of the flow of gases from the vein of the turbomachine, which is withdrawn from compressors where the gas is at high pressure and still fresh, which is allowed to circulate in conduits along the vein and that we blow on the much hotter turbines of the machine. The device traditionally comprises annular ramps surrounding the stator casing at a distance from it and provided with blowing orifices directed towards the casing. The document US 6,149,074 A describes such a cooling device.

Un inconvénient de ce dispositif est un manque de précision. La position de la rampe ne peut pas toujours être maintenue optimale en raison des déformations, notamment des dilatations thermiques différentielles dues à des échauffements différents, subies par la machine au cours du fonctionnement et des tolérances de fabrication du dispositif de soufflage comprenant les rampes. Ces déformations et dilatations différentielles peuvent revenir à déplacer les rampes aussi bien en direction axiale qu'en direction radiale du carter, d'autant plus que celui-ci est généralement conique. Les rampes peuvent ainsi se trouver à côté des endroits du carter qui étaient supposés subir le soufflage (normalement les parties les plus rigides, autour des nervures circulaires qui le raidissent, et qui détermine bien ces dimensions), et leur distance au carter peut aussi être déréglée, et même disparaître dans certaines situations. Or, une très grande précision de position est nécessaire pour obtenir une bonne qualité de réglage des jeux dans les moteurs contemporains, et des erreurs de position ou des déplacements de l'ordre du millimètre peuvent compromettre la qualité du soufflage. Et si le carter entre en contact avec les rampes, elles peuvent éclater s'il se dilate davantage.A disadvantage of this device is a lack of precision. The position of the ramp cannot always be kept optimal because of the deformations, in particular the differential thermal expansions due to different heating, undergone by the machine during operation and the manufacturing tolerances of the blowing device comprising the ramps. These differential deformations and expansions may amount to moving the ramps both in the axial direction and in the radial direction of the casing, especially since the latter is generally conical. The ramps can thus be located next to the places of the casing which were supposed to undergo the blowing (normally the most rigid parts, around the circular ribs which stiffen it, and which determines these dimensions well), and their distance from the casing can also be out of order, and even disappear in certain situations. However, a very high position precision is necessary to obtain a good quality of adjustment of the clearances in contemporary engines, and position errors or displacements of the order of. millimeter can compromise the quality of the blowing. And if the crankcase comes in contact with the ramps, they can burst if they expand further.

Les inconvénients d'erreurs de position au montage du dispositif sur le carter ou pendant le fonctionnement peuvent être réduits si les rampes sont unies au carter par des dispositifs de liaison, au lieu d'être complètement séparées de lui dans le brevet mentionné ci-dessus, mais les déformations et dilatations thermiques différentielles contraignent fortement alors l'assemblage, et des ruptures sont aussi possibles.The disadvantages of position errors when mounting the device on the housing or during operation can be reduced if the ramps are joined to the housing by connecting devices, instead of being completely separated from it in the patent mentioned above. , but the differential thermal deformations and expansions then strongly constrain the assembly, and ruptures are also possible.

Le maintien des rampes de refroidissement par soufflage à une position bien définie, aussi bien axiale que radiale, par rapport au carter qui subit le soufflage d'air n'est donc pas résolu de façon satisfaisante aujourd'hui.Maintaining the blast cooling ramps in a well-defined position, both axial and radial, relative to the casing which is subjected to the air blowing is therefore not satisfactorily resolved today.

Un dispositif dans lequel les rampes sont assemblées au carter est le sujet du document EP 2236772 A2 . Les rampes sont composées d'une tôle intérieure munie des orifices de soufflage, d'une tôle extérieure délimitant une chambre de soufflage avec la tôle intérieure, et d'une tôle intermédiaire permettant une égalisation des flux d'air vers les orifices de soufflage. Ces tôles sont munies de rebords superposés et vissés à des pattes de maintien sur le carter. La structure est relativement complexe, et des défauts de position, suffisamment importants dans ce domaine où une très grande précision est souhaitée, risquent d'apparaître en l'absence de précautions particulières au montage.A device in which the ramps are assembled to the housing is the subject of the document EP 2236772 A2 . The ramps are made up of an interior sheet provided with the blowing openings, an exterior sheet delimiting a blowing chamber with the interior sheet, and an intermediate sheet allowing equalization of the air flows towards the blowing openings. These sheets are provided with superimposed edges and screwed to retaining lugs on the casing. The structure is relatively complex, and positional errors, sufficiently large in this field where very high precision is desired, risk appearing in the absence of special precautions during assembly.

C'est pour obvier à cet inconvénient d'imprécision du refroidissement que l'invention fut conçue. Sous une forme générale, elle concerne un dispositif de refroidissement d'un carter de révolution de turbomachine par un écoulement de gaz selon la revendication 1.It is to obviate this drawback of imprecision of the cooling that the invention was conceived. In a general form, it relates to a device for cooling a casing of revolution of a turbomachine by a flow of gas according to claim 1.

L'invention repose donc principalement sur la liaison au carter de l'extrémité du dispositif de soufflage, c'est-à-dire la tôle à travers laquelle le gaz est soufflé, qui est parallèle au carter et maintenue à une distance constante et bien déterminée du carter, grâce aux deux appuis de butée obtenues dans des directions perpendiculaires. Les conditions géométriques de soufflage restent ainsi uniformes quelles que soient les évolutions de fonctionnement de la machine et les déformations subies par les différentes pièces, qui n'affectent pas cette jonction à peu près indéformable du carter et de l'extrémité du dispositif de soufflage.The invention is therefore based mainly on the connection to the casing of the end of the blowing device, that is to say the sheet through which the gas is blown, which is parallel to the casing and maintained at a constant distance and well. determined by the casing, thanks to the two stop supports obtained in perpendicular directions. The geometric blowing conditions thus remain uniform regardless of the changes in the operation of the machine and the deformations undergone by the various parts, which do not affect this almost indeformable junction of the casing and the end of the blowing device.

Les reliefs saillants sur le carter peuvent être munis d'ouvertures d'évacuation.The protruding reliefs on the casing may be provided with discharge openings.

Dans une variante préférée de réalisation, le boîtier collecteur comprend des bords respectivement parallèles aux bords de la tôle et posés sur eux ; cette disposition, surtout si la tôle comprend un premier bord essentiellement plan et un second bord essentiellement perpendiculaire au premier bord, permet d'assemblerfacilement le boîtier collecteur à la tôle.In a preferred variant embodiment, the collector box comprises edges respectively parallel to the edges of the sheet and placed on them; this arrangement, especially if the sheet comprises a first essentially plane edge and a second edge essentially perpendicular to the first edge, makes it possible to easily assemble the collector box to the sheet.

Selon une disposition préférée, le raccord est coudé et coulissant à travers une paroi du boîtier, une paroi de la capacité ou les deux, ce qui permet de compenser des dilatations différentielles dans les directions du mouvement coulissant, ou éventuellement toute direction.According to a preferred arrangement, the connector is elbow and sliding through a wall of the housing, a wall of the capacity or both, which makes it possible to compensate for differential expansions in the directions of the sliding movement, or possibly any direction.

Un autre aspect de l'invention est une turbomachine comprenant un tel dispositif de refroidissement, la tôle pouvant alors avantageusement être située autour d'une portion du carter qui est pourvue d'une nervure circulaire. Le dispositif de refroidissement peut encore comprendre une pluralité de tôles et de boîtiers collecteurs respectivement associés aux tôles, les tôles et boîtiers forment des anneaux se succédant autour du carter en direction axiale du carter.Another aspect of the invention is a turbomachine comprising such a cooling device, the sheet then being able to advantageously be situated around a portion of the casing which is provided with a circular rib. The cooling device may also comprise a plurality of sheets and manifold boxes respectively associated with the sheets, the sheets and boxes form successive rings around the casing in the axial direction of the casing.

Les différents aspects, caractéristiques et avantages de l'invention seront maintenant décrits en détail en liaison aux figures suivantes, qui en représentent un mode de réalisation préféré, donné à titre purement illustratif :

  • la figure 1 est une vue d'ensemble du dispositif en coupe longitudinale de la machine ;
  • la figure 2 est en agrandissement d'une unité du dispositif;
  • la figure 3 illustre la tôle foraminée ;
  • la figure 4 illustre le carter ;
  • la figure 5 illustre le boîtier collecteur ;
  • et la figure 6 illustre l'écoulement de soufflage.
The various aspects, characteristics and advantages of the invention will now be described in detail with reference to the following figures, which represent a preferred embodiment thereof, given purely by way of illustration:
  • the figure 1 is an overall view of the device in longitudinal section of the machine;
  • the figure 2 is enlarged by one unit of the device;
  • the figure 3 illustrates foraminous sheet;
  • the figure 4 illustrates the crankcase;
  • the figure 5 illustrates the collector housing;
  • and the figure 6 illustrates the blow flow.

Une vue générale du dispositif et de son environnement est donnée à la figure 1. Une turbine de turbomachine comprend un carter 1 autour d'une direction axiale X. Le carter 1 comprend une peau 2 de forme conique régulièrement renforcée par des nervures 3 circulaires et qui définissent donc des portions annulaires plus rigides du carter 1. Un dispositif de refroidissement comprend des anneaux 4 entourant le carter 1, s'appuyant sur des bandes circulaires de la peau 2 et montés de préférence devant les nervures 3. Les anneaux 4 sont reliés à une capacité de gaz frais, ici un boîtier d'alimentation d'air 5, qui s'étend à quelque distance d'eux, par des raccords 6 ayant une forme coudée.A general view of the device and its environment is given at the figure 1 . A turbomachine turbine comprises a casing 1 around an axial direction X. The casing 1 comprises a skin 2 of conical shape regularly reinforced by circular ribs 3 and which therefore define more rigid annular portions of the casing 1. A cooling device comprises rings 4 surrounding the casing 1, resting on circular bands of the skin 2 and preferably mounted in front of the ribs 3. The rings 4 are connected to a fresh gas tank, here an air supply box 5, which extends at some distance from them, by fittings 6 having an elbow shape.

La figure 2 représente en détail un des anneaux 4 du dispositif. Il comprend une tôle 7 de forme annulaire et conique, unitaire dans la direction axiale X (éventuellement composée de secteurs angulaires assemblés entre eux) posée sur la peau 2 en étant montée autour d'elle et un boîtier collecteur 8 coiffant la tôle 7. La figure 3 montre que la tôle 7 comprend une partie principale 9, foraminée (traversée de perçages multiples) et de deux bords latéraux 10 et 11. La tôle 7 a la même conicité que la portion de la peau 2 sur laquelle elle s'étend, de sorte que la partie principale 9 est parallèle à la peau 2 et séparée d'elle par une chambre de soufflage 12 d'une profondeur constante de quelques millimètres (par exemple 2 millimètres). Elle est supposée rester rigide pendant l'assemblage et le fonctionnement, pour maintenir cette profondeur invariable et uniforme sur toute l'étendue de la chambre de soufflage 12. Un premier bord latéral 10 est essentiellement plan et s'étend perpendiculairement à la direction axiale X, alors que le second bord latéral 11 (à un plus grand diamètre de la tôle 7) est essentiellement cylindrique. La peau 2 (figure 4) est munie de deux reliefs 13 et 14 rigides, annulaires et saillants en forme de nervures, destinés à recevoir respectivement les bords latéraux 10 et 11 pour établir des états d'appui ou de butée. Le premier bord latéral 10 bute contre une face latérale du relief 13 qui est plane et orientée dans la direction axiale X, alors que le second bord latéral 11 s'appuie sur une face extérieure, cylindrique et de même diamètre que lui et orientée en direction radiale R, de l'autre relief 14. Ce dernier est muni de fentes d'évacuation 15 régulièrement réparties sur sa circonférence pour permettre l'évacuation de la chambre de soufflage 12. Le boîtier collecteur 8 est également de forme annulaire et comprend (figure 5) un premier bord latéral 16 plan perpendiculaire à la direction axiale X et un second bord latéral 17, opposé, dirigé dans cette direction axiale X et cylindrique ou légèrement conique. Les bords latéraux 16 et 17 ont respectivement les mêmes directions que les bords latéraux 10 et 11 de la tôle 7, et ils peuvent être posés sur eux et fixés à eux par brasage, soudage ou autrement. Les bords latéraux 10 et 11 de la tôle 7 sont de même fixés aux reliefs 13 et 14 par brasage, soudage ou autrement. Les appuis ou butées dans des directions essentiellement perpendiculaires entre les bords 10 et 11 de la tôle 7 d'une part, les reliefs 13 et 14 ou les bords 16 et 17 du boîtier collecteur d'autre part, offrent un montage simple à établir et peu contraint mécaniquement. Le boîtier collecteur 8 est par ailleurs formé d'une tôle continue entre les bords latéraux 16 et 17, qui est bombée vers l'extérieur en direction radiale R et s'ouvre seulement du côté radial intérieur, à l'endroit où le boîtier collecteur 8 coiffe la partie principale 9 de la tôle 7. Cette dernière sépare donc la chambre de soufflage 12 d'une chambre de distribution 18 située extérieurement radialement à elle et délimitée par le boîtier collecteur 8.The figure 2 shows in detail one of the rings 4 of the device. It comprises a sheet 7 of annular and conical shape, unitary in the axial direction X (possibly composed of angular sectors assembled together) placed on the skin 2 while being mounted around it and a collector box 8 covering the sheet 7. The figure 3 shows that the sheet 7 comprises a main part 9, foraminous (crossing multiple holes) and two side edges 10 and 11. The sheet 7 has the same taper as the portion of the skin 2 on which it extends, so that the main part 9 is parallel to the skin 2 and separated from it by a blowing chamber 12 of a constant depth of a few millimeters (for example 2 millimeters). It is supposed to remain rigid during assembly and operation, to maintain this invariable and uniform depth over the entire extent of the blowing chamber 12. A first side edge 10 is essentially plane and extends perpendicular to the axial direction X , while the second side edge 11 (at a larger diameter of the sheet 7) is essentially cylindrical. Skin 2 ( figure 4 ) is provided with two reliefs 13 and 14 rigid, annular and protrusions in the form of ribs, intended to receive the lateral edges 10 and 11 respectively in order to establish support or stop states. The first lateral edge 10 abuts against a lateral face of the relief 13 which is flat and oriented in the axial direction X, while the second lateral edge 11 rests on an outer face, cylindrical and of the same diameter as it and oriented in the direction radial R, of the other relief 14. The latter is provided with evacuation slots 15 regularly distributed over its circumference to allow the evacuation of the blowing chamber 12. The collector housing 8 is also of annular shape and comprises ( figure 5 ) a first lateral edge 16 plane perpendicular to the axial direction X and a second lateral edge 17, opposite, directed in this axial direction X and cylindrical or slightly conical. The side edges 16 and 17 respectively have the same directions as the side edges 10 and 11 of the sheet 7, and they can be laid on them and fixed to them by brazing, welding or otherwise. The side edges 10 and 11 of the sheet 7 are likewise fixed to the reliefs 13 and 14 by brazing, welding or otherwise. The supports or stops in essentially perpendicular directions between the edges 10 and 11 of the sheet 7 on the one hand, the reliefs 13 and 14 or the edges 16 and 17 of the collector housing on the other hand, offer a simple assembly to establish and little mechanically constrained. The collector housing 8 is furthermore formed of a continuous sheet between the side edges 16 and 17, which is bulging outward in the radial direction R and opens only on the inner radial side, where the collector housing 8 covers the main part 9 of the sheet 7. The latter therefore separates the blowing chamber 12 from a distribution chamber 18 located outside radially to it and delimited by the manifold housing 8.

La paroi du boîtier collecteur 8 est toutefois percée à l'endroit du raccord 6. Celui-ci la traverse par une branche 19 axiale et se raccorde au boîtier d'alimentation 5 en traversant sa paroi par une autre branche 20 oblique et séparée de la précédente par un coude 21. Il est avantageux que les extrémités des branches 19 et 20 pénètrent dans le boîtier collecteur 8 et le boîtier d'alimentation 5 par des jonctions qui permettent de coulisser à travers leurs parois, afin d'accommoder le dispositif à des variations de positions, dues par exemple aux dilatations thermiques dans la machine, en particulier entre le carter 1 et le boîtier d'alimentation 5.The wall of the collector box 8 is however pierced at the location of the connector 6. The latter passes through it by an axial branch 19 and is connected to the supply box 5 by passing through its wall by another branch 20 oblique and separated from the previous by an elbow 21. It is advantageous that the ends of the branches 19 and 20 penetrate into the collector housing 8 and the supply housing 5 by junctions which allow to slide through their walls, in order to accommodate the device to variations in positions, due for example to thermal expansions in the machine, in particular between the housing 1 and the power supply unit 5.

On a représenté un seul raccord 6 entre le boîtier d'alimentation 5 et chacun des anneaux 4. Plusieurs raccords 6 pourraient être prévus pour chacun des anneaux 4, répartis autour de leur circonférence. Il serait alors indiqué de compartimenter l'intérieur des boîtiers collecteurs 8 par des cloisons, afin d'y assurer des écoulements égaux. Le boîtier d'alimentation 5, commun à tous les raccords 6, est relié au compresseur de la machine, où éventuellement à une autre source d'air comprimé, par une canalisation 22 qu'on a seulement ébauchée ici.A single connector 6 has been shown between the supply unit 5 and each of the rings 4. Several connectors 6 could be provided for each of the rings 4, distributed around their circumference. It would then be advisable to compartmentalize the inside of the manifold boxes 8 by partitions, in order to ensure equal flow therein. The supply unit 5, common to all the connections 6, is connected to the compressor of the machine, or possibly to another source of compressed air, by a pipe 22 which has only been sketched out here.

En fonctionnement (figure 6), de l'air comprimé soutiré des compresseurs arrive dans le boîtier d'alimentation 5 par la canalisation 22, puis est distribué par les raccords 6 dans les boîtiers collecteurs 8 et se répartit en direction angulaire dans leurs chambres de distribution 18, puis franchit les tôles 7 par leurs perçages pour entrer dans les chambres de soufflage et lécher la peau 2 à l'endroit des raidisseurs 3, avant d'être évacué à l'extérieur par les fentes 15. La profondeur uniforme des chambres de soufflage 12 garantit que les débits d'air lèchent chaque portion de la peau 2 de façon invariable, ce qui permet de prévoir les rétractions thermiques qu'on impose avec une bonne précision. La valeur du débit peut classiquement être réglée par une vanne placée par exemple sur la canalisation 22.Operating ( figure 6 ), the compressed air withdrawn from the compressors arrives in the supply box 5 through the pipe 22, then is distributed by the fittings 6 in the manifold boxes 8 and is distributed in angular direction in their distribution chambers 18, then passes through the sheets 7 by their holes to enter the blowing chambers and lick the skin 2 at the location of the stiffeners 3, before being discharged to the outside through the slots 15. The uniform depth of the blowing chambers 12 guarantees that the air flows lick each portion of the skin 2 invariably, which makes it possible to predict the thermal shrinkages that are imposed with good precision. The value of the flow rate can conventionally be regulated by a valve placed for example on the pipe 22.

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  1. Device for cooling a turbomachine revolving casing by a flow of gas, comprising: a plate (7) surrounding a circular band of the casing in front of a circular rib (3) belonging to the casing, having edges (10, 11) fixed to the casing (1) and a main foraminous part (9) parallel to the casing (7), the plate and the casing (1) delimiting a gas blowing chamber (12) provided with discharge openings (15); a collection box (8) surrounding the plate, and delimiting with the plate (7) a gas distribution chamber (18) while covering the main part of the plate; a cooling gas supply capacity (5) at a distance from the collection box; and at least one connecting duct (6) connecting the capacity to the collection box, the collection box being formed by a continuous plate between two lateral edges of said collection box, which are respectively secured to said edges (10, 11) of the plate (7) and which respectively have same directions as said edges (10, 11) of the plate (7), the sheet of the collection bow being pierced at a place of the connecting duct (6), characterised in that it comprises reliefs (13, 14) projecting on the casing to serve as supports to the edges (10, 11) of the plate (7), and the reliefs (13, 14) procure a stop in an axial direction (X) of the casing for a first of the edges (10) of the plate and a support in a radial direction (R) of the casing for a second of the edges (11) of the plate (7).
  2. Device according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that the edges of the plate are essentially perpendicular to each other.
  3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the edges (16, 17) of the collection box (8) are laid on the edges (10, 11) of the plate.
  4. Device according to claim 3, characterised in that one of the reliefs (14) at least is provided with the discharge openings (15).
  5. Device according to any of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the connecting duct (6) is bent and sliding through either a wall of the collection box, or a wall of the capacity, or said two walls.
  6. Turbomachine, characterised in that it comprises a device according to any of the preceding claims.
  7. Turbomachine according to claim 6, characterised in that the cooling device comprises a plurality of plates and collection boxes respectively associated with the plates, the plates and boxes forming rings (4) succeeding one another around the casing in the axial direction of the casing.
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