US20140369815A1 - Control of low volumetric flow instabilites in steam turbines - Google Patents
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- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
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- F01D11/10—Preventing or minimising internal leakage of working-fluid, e.g. between stages for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator using sealing fluid, e.g. steam
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
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- the present invention relates to a configuration of the last stage in a steam turbine for controlling rotating flow instabilities in the last stage rotor blades when the steam turbine operates at low volumetric flow conditions, particularly during starting and low load conditions.
- Stalling is a known phenomenon based on the sudden decrease of the load exerted onto a profile subjected to a flow: in steam turbines, the stalling phenomenon induces rotating flow instabilities in the rotor blades, particularly in the last stage rotor blades.
- the flow structure In steam turbines, during starting and low load conditions (up to around 10% of the design mass flow), the flow structure is very disorderly, particularly in the low pressure stage of the steam turbine: this flow is centrifuged radially outwards in the rotor blades, the flow being centrifuged radially inwards in the stator blades.
- this flow is centrifuged radially outwards in the rotor blades, the flow being centrifuged radially inwards in the stator blades.
- At low load conditions there is high flow incidence onto the last stage rotor blades, which can cause flow separation from the rotor blades surface and flow instabilities, these instabilities are commonly found to rotate at about one half of the blade rotational speed.
- the flow field also contains large toroidal vortex structures are set up. These rotating instabilities can couple with the natural frequency of the rotor blades and produce undesirable vibration effects.
- the invention is oriented towards solving these problems.
- the present invention relates to a configuration for controlling flow instabilities in steam turbines when they operate at low volumetric conditions, particularly during starting and low load conditions.
- the configuration of the invention comprises a plurality of passages located in the last stage vane carrier of the low pressure stage of the steam turbine, these passages being located at specific positions at the vane carrier: through these passages, a fluid is blown onto the rotating blades to counteract rotating flow instabilities in them.
- the number of passages and their specific positions are defined in such a way that the fluid blown is directed towards the rotor blades and preventing the excitation.
- the passages are shaped circumferentially in order to increase the circumferential coverage of each passage.
- the fluid blown through the passages into the rotor blades is such that the swirl injection angle incident on the rotor blades forms an angle from zero to ⁇ 90 degrees.
- the positive angle being taken in the direction of the turbine rotor rotation, with zero degrees being axial, wherein in the axial/radial plane the jet is directed downwards from the outer flow boundary.
- FIG. 1 shows the characteristics of low flow in a steam turbine. Radial movements of the through flow can be seen together with the recirculation zones created;
- FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the invention where the passages are shaped in the circumferential direction to increase the flow coverage for each passage provided;
- FIG. 3 shows schematically the configuration of the invention for controlling flow instabilities in the last stage rotor blades of a steam turbine when the turbine operates at low volumetric conditions
- FIGS. 4 a,b,c shows the influence of injection swirl angle on Volumetric flow versus fractional Speed and Vibration amplitude
- FIG. 5 shows the influence of blowing mass flow on dynamic blade stress.
- the present invention relates to a configuration 10 for controlling flow instabilities in the last stage rotor blades 2 of a steam turbine when the turbine operates at low volumetric conditions, particularly during starting and low load conditions.
- the configuration 10 is such that a plurality of passages 20 are located in the vane carrier 1 of the last stage of the steam turbine, these passages 20 being located at specific positions at the circumference of the vane carrier 1 . Through these passages 20 , a fluid is blown onto the rotor blades 2 .
- the number of passages 20 and their specific positions are defined in such a way that the fluid blown through the passages 20 is directed towards the rotor blades 2 avoiding rotating stability problems in these last stage rotor blades 2 that produce undesired vibration effects on them.
- FIG. 1 shows the flow pattern in the last stage low pressure vane carrier 1 during starting and low load conditions (up to around 10% of the design mass flow), showing that the flow structure is very disorderly.
- the through flow in the vane carrier 1 adopts a wavy shape, as shown in FIG. 1 , existing large toroidal vortex structures 30 : the last stage low pressure vane carrier 1 actually acts as a radial pump and there is net energy input to the stage.
- a solution is to use water sprays injected in the exhaust diffuser to cool the exhaust casing vane carrier walls and last stage blades, but this solution has not been found to be reliable.
- the purpose of the configuration 10 of the invention is to design the passages 20 to eliminate the rotating flow instabilities in the last stage rotor blades 2 during starting and low load conditions of the steam turbine.
- the positions of the passages 20 upstream of the last stage rotor blade 2 is such that the injection flow is directed through the last stage vane carrier 1 to approximately 80% last stage blade height, as measured from the blade platform to the tip, so as to blow into the torodial vortex 30 typically formed upstream of the rotor blade 2 tip region.
- FIGS. 4 a , 4 b and 4 c shows a series of tests that demonstrate the surprising effect that a negative injection angle results in a more stable and steady separated flow, decoupled from resonance can be seen.
- the tests were carried out in a one third scale model low pressure steam turbine over a range of mass flow rates and condenser pressure. During the tests measurement were made of last stage blade stress using a strain gauge located on the surface of the last stage blade. Results of these measurements are shown as lines representation vibrational amplitude in FIGS. 4 a , 4 b and 4 c.
- An additional dynamic pressure sensor acting as a microphone, was additional located in the flow to detect the formation of the rotating events that can give rise to blade vibration. From the pressure signal it was possible to determine frequency, which is transformable into fractional speed, and represent this as spheres in FIGS. 4 a , 4 b and 4 c . The amplitude from the pressure sensor was then used in FIGS. 4 a , 4 b and 4 c to define the size of the grey spheres on each of the graphs.
- the fluid injected from the passages 20 which preferably is steam, is such that the injection angle incident on the rotor blades 2 forms an angle from zero to ⁇ 90 degrees, the negative angle being taken in the direction counter to the turbine rotor rotation.
- the preferred injection angle range is ⁇ 45 to ⁇ 75 degrees, the most preferred injection angle being ⁇ 60 degrees.
- the flow injected from the passages 20 is up to 10% of the mainstream flow.
- the number of passages 20 relative to the number of rotor blades 2 is set to provide sufficient stabilization of the rotating events. In the case of the test results given, 12 passages were used. Other embodiments of this invention may use a different number of passages to obtain sufficient stabilization.
- the passages are equally spaced around the circumference. In an alternative embodiment the passages are unevenly spaced around the circumference for enhanced performance or for practical considerations.
- the following parameters influence the performance of the configuration 10 of the invention maintaining the trajectory length of the fluid blown from the passages 20 as small as possible; maintaining the velocity of the fluid injected as high as possible; and maximizing the circumferential extent of the passages 20 in the vane carrier 1 .
- the passages 20 are circumferentially shaped to increase the circumferential coverage in the vane carrier 1 as shown in FIG. 2 .
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