US2280585A - Expansion turbine for low temperature plants - Google Patents
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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
- F01D1/00—Non-positive-displacement machines or engines, e.g. steam turbines
- F01D1/02—Non-positive-displacement machines or engines, e.g. steam turbines with stationary working-fluid guiding means and bladed or like rotor, e.g. multi-bladed impulse steam turbines
- F01D1/06—Non-positive-displacement machines or engines, e.g. steam turbines with stationary working-fluid guiding means and bladed or like rotor, e.g. multi-bladed impulse steam turbines traversed by the working-fluid substantially radially
- F01D1/08—Non-positive-displacement machines or engines, e.g. steam turbines with stationary working-fluid guiding means and bladed or like rotor, e.g. multi-bladed impulse steam turbines traversed by the working-fluid substantially radially having inward flow
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
- F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
- F25B9/06—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point using expanders
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- the present invention relates to expansion turbines for cooling gaseous mediums to low temperatures.
- the expansion turbine has always been used in conjunction with high pressure compressors. These turbines are usually constructed according to the steam turbine principle of impulse axial flow turbines.
- the present invention provides means for the cooling of gases adiabatically by the use of an expansion turbine alone making the use of the high pressure apparatusunnecessary.
- Fig. l is a sectional view of the turbine casing showing one type of rotor blade.
- Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating another type of rotor blade.
- Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a modified turbine casing showing a third type of rotor.
- Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a fourth type of rotor.
- Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the turbine taken on the line V-V of Fig. 3.
- the working medium has such a density that the turbine can be constructed on the principle of steam or gas turbines making use of the expansion of the gas and the principle'of the turbines working in the dense medium such as the hydraulic turbine where one makes use of centrifugal force.
- the turbine as can be seen from the annexed drawings, is like a radial flow turbine in which the working medium is not directed from the centre to the periphery as is usual, but from the periphery to the centre. In this-way the expansion turbine is constructed in much the same way as an inverted turbo-compressor.
- i is the turbine casing, 2 the spiral channel of the air feeding means, and 3 the rotor.
- the arrows show the direction of the flow of the inlet air and the direction of the rotation of the rotor. The incoming air enters the whole circumference of the wheel.
- FIG. 2 A modification is shown in Fig. 2 wherein the spiral channel 2 has a guiding mechanism consisting of the guide blades 4 and all the blades of the rotor 3 and of the directing mechanism 4 are shown to be rectilinear.
- Fig. 3 illustrates another possible construction in which the spiral channel 2 is formed by an inserted piece 5 so that thecasing i can be made concentric to the rotor and the guiding Passages.
- the blades 6 and l of both are curved as shown in the drawings.
- Fig. 4 shows still another form in which the blades 8 of the guiding passages are so constructed that the channel between them has the same shape as Lavals expanding nozzle.
- the guiding passages can be distributed all round the rotor.
- Fig. 5 shows that the casing I is made of two halves i a and lb fixed together and forming the spiral air feeding channel 2 by their conjunction with the inserted blade.
- the air compressed to a few atmospheres and suitably cooled is let into the feed channel 2 through a pipe which is not-shown in Fig. 5 and passes through the guiding passages 8 to the rotor blades 1 from where it goes out through the central opening 9 after expanding and giving up its energy and passes on to the next apparatus at a temperature of about -196 C. and a pressure of 1 atmosphere.
- the casing la and lb is rigidly fixed to the table H) which is supported by three columns II. On these columns two holders i2 and I3 are fixed with ball bearings l4 and I5 to the vertical shaft 16 of the turbine wheel ll. Owing to the device and also to the high density of the gas at the low pressure at which it enters the passage between the blades acentriiugal force is produced whose action is directed towards the blades to increase the pressure on them.
- the power or the shaft ii of the expansion turbine can be utilised in some already known way or have its energy absorbed by the use of some device which will convert its mechanical energy into heat.
- An expansion turbine for low temperature refrigerating plants having a,working medium entering said turbine ata low temperature and having considerable density at the temperatures and pressures existing in the turbine rotor comprising, a shaft, a rotor attached to the shaft, means for utilizing the work done by the expansion of the working medium and by the centrifugal forces in the working medium comprising radially disposed single action blades directing the working medium from the periphery to the center of the rotor, means for feeding the working medium to the periphery of the rotor comprising a spiral-formed channel, and means circumferentially spaced around the periphery of the rotor for guiding the working medium between said blades.
- An expansion turbine for low temperature refrigerating plants with a working medium entering said turbine at a low temperature and having considerable density at the temperatures and pressures existing in the turbine rotor comprising a vertically disposed shaft, a rotor attached to the shaft, means for utilizing the work done by the expansion of the working medium and by the centrifugal forces in the working medium comprising radially disposed single-action blades directing the working medium from the periphery to the center of the rotor, and means for feeding the working medium to the periphery of the rotor comprising a spiral-formed channel having a ring-shaped group of director vanes.
- An expansion turbine for low-temperature refrigerating plants with a working medium entering the turbine at a low temperature and having considerable density at the temperatures and pressures 'existing in the turbine rotor comprising, a vertically disposed shaft, a rotor attached to the shaft, means for utilizing the work done by the expansion of the working medium and by the centrifugal forces in the working medium, comprising radially disposed blades directing the working medium from the periphery to the center of the rotor, and means for feeding the working medium to the periphery of the rotor comprising a spiral-formed channel having a ringshaped group of director vanes forming expansion channels.
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April 21, 1942. -P. KAPITZA 8 EXPANSION TURBINE FOR. LOW" TEMPERATURE PLANTS Q I Filed Nov. 5, 193B 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Fig.2.
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April 21, 1942. P. KAPITZA 3 EXPANSION TURBINE FOR Low, TEMPERATURE PLANTS Filed Nov. 3, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 2 6 2 6 2 1a U I Patented Apr. 21, 1942 FFE EXPANSION TURBINE FOR LOW TEMPERAT- PLANTS Peter Kapitza, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Application November 3, 1938, Serial No. 238,599.
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Sep- TUBE teinber 16, 1938 3 Claims.
The present invention relates to expansion turbines for cooling gaseous mediums to low temperatures.
Up to the present time it has not been possible to use an expansion turbine for the cooling to very low temperatures large quantities of gas as the construction of an ordinary expansion turbine gave such a small pressure drop that the adiabatic process was not sufiicient to cool the gas down to the required temperature.
The expansion turbine has always been used in conjunction with high pressure compressors. These turbines are usually constructed according to the steam turbine principle of impulse axial flow turbines.
Contrary to this, the present invention provides means for the cooling of gases adiabatically by the use of an expansion turbine alone making the use of the high pressure apparatusunnecessary. Other and further features and objects of the invention will be more apparent to those skilled in the art upon a consideration of the accompanying drawings and the following description wherein several exemplary embodiments of the invention are disclosed.
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Fig. l is a sectional view of the turbine casing showing one type of rotor blade.
Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating another type of rotor blade.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a modified turbine casing showing a third type of rotor.
Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a fourth type of rotor.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the turbine taken on the line V-V of Fig. 3.
It has been established that at the low temperature achieved by an expansion turbine adiabatically by feeding it with air cooled, say, to about 160 (3., the working medium has such a density that the turbine can be constructed on the principle of steam or gas turbines making use of the expansion of the gas and the principle'of the turbines working in the dense medium such as the hydraulic turbine where one makes use of centrifugal force. The combining of these two principles makes the pressure drop 2 or 3 times greater and it follows that the temperature limits are much larger in the expand= ing cycles, which leads to increased thermodynamic efiiciency and so to the efficiency of the whole expansion turbine.
For example, it has been found that when the air let into the turbine at 4 atmospheres, after being cooled in heat exchangers to -165 C., it
can be expanded to 1' atmosphere, and on leaving the turbine reaches the temperature of --196 C. It was found from experiments that the efficiency of the expansion turbine is about 85% in practice or even higher. To achieve this result, the turbine, as can be seen from the annexed drawings, is like a radial flow turbine in which the working medium is not directed from the centre to the periphery as is usual, but from the periphery to the centre. In this-way the expansion turbine is constructed in much the same way as an inverted turbo-compressor. As can 'be seen from the drawings, i is the turbine casing, 2 the spiral channel of the air feeding means, and 3 the rotor. The arrows show the direction of the flow of the inlet air and the direction of the rotation of the rotor. The incoming air enters the whole circumference of the wheel.
A modification is shown in Fig. 2 wherein the spiral channel 2 has a guiding mechanism consisting of the guide blades 4 and all the blades of the rotor 3 and of the directing mechanism 4 are shown to be rectilinear.
Fig. 3 illustrates another possible construction in which the spiral channel 2 is formed by an inserted piece 5 so that thecasing i can be made concentric to the rotor and the guiding Passages.
The blades 6 and l of both are curved as shown in the drawings.
Fig. 4 shows still another form in which the blades 8 of the guiding passages are so constructed that the channel between them has the same shape as Lavals expanding nozzle. In all these different designs the guiding passages can be distributed all round the rotor.
Fig. 5 shows that the casing I is made of two halves i a and lb fixed together and forming the spiral air feeding channel 2 by their conjunction with the inserted blade.
The air compressed to a few atmospheres and suitably cooled is let into the feed channel 2 through a pipe which is not-shown in Fig. 5 and passes through the guiding passages 8 to the rotor blades 1 from where it goes out through the central opening 9 after expanding and giving up its energy and passes on to the next apparatus at a temperature of about -196 C. and a pressure of 1 atmosphere.
The casing la and lb is rigidly fixed to the table H) which is supported by three columns II. On these columns two holders i2 and I3 are fixed with ball bearings l4 and I5 to the vertical shaft 16 of the turbine wheel ll. Owing to the device and also to the high density of the gas at the low pressure at which it enters the passage between the blades acentriiugal force is produced whose action is directed towards the blades to increase the pressure on them.
In this way the pressure drop of 1:3 used in the expansion turbines up to this time may be increased to 1:8 or even higher.
Beside this it is possible to combine a series of two or more expansion turbines and obtain a still greater increase of the pressure drop and the consequent lowering of the temperature in the system at the expense of the adiabatic expansion.
In this way there is provided a low temperature plant without high pressure and all the consequent difilculties attached to the use of high pressure compressors giving a much more simple and economical plant.
The power or the shaft ii of the expansion turbine can be utilised in some already known way or have its energy absorbed by the use of some device which will convert its mechanical energy into heat. I
I claim:
1. An expansion turbine for low temperature refrigerating plants having a,working medium entering said turbine ata low temperature and having considerable density at the temperatures and pressures existing in the turbine rotor comprising, a shaft, a rotor attached to the shaft, means for utilizing the work done by the expansion of the working medium and by the centrifugal forces in the working medium comprising radially disposed single action blades directing the working medium from the periphery to the center of the rotor, means for feeding the working medium to the periphery of the rotor comprising a spiral-formed channel, and means circumferentially spaced around the periphery of the rotor for guiding the working medium between said blades.
2. An expansion turbine for low temperature refrigerating plants with a working medium entering said turbine at a low temperature and having considerable density at the temperatures and pressures existing in the turbine rotor comprising a vertically disposed shaft, a rotor attached to the shaft, means for utilizing the work done by the expansion of the working medium and by the centrifugal forces in the working medium comprising radially disposed single-action blades directing the working medium from the periphery to the center of the rotor, and means for feeding the working medium to the periphery of the rotor comprising a spiral-formed channel having a ring-shaped group of director vanes.
3. An expansion turbine for low-temperature refrigerating plants with a working medium entering the turbine at a low temperature and having considerable density at the temperatures and pressures 'existing in the turbine rotor comprising, a vertically disposed shaft, a rotor attached to the shaft, means for utilizing the work done by the expansion of the working medium and by the centrifugal forces in the working medium, comprising radially disposed blades directing the working medium from the periphery to the center of the rotor, and means for feeding the working medium to the periphery of the rotor comprising a spiral-formed channel having a ringshaped group of director vanes forming expansion channels.
PETER KAPITZA.
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US2529880A (en) * | 1949-03-15 | 1950-11-14 | Elliott Co | Turboexpander |
US2709567A (en) * | 1948-12-27 | 1955-05-31 | Garrett Corp | Turbine rotor bearing with cooling and lubricating means |
US3091182A (en) * | 1960-12-08 | 1963-05-28 | Shell Oil Co | Centrifugal pumps |
US3784324A (en) * | 1971-03-31 | 1974-01-08 | Tno | Centrifugal fluid vanes compressor |
US3892070A (en) * | 1970-05-08 | 1975-07-01 | Ranendra K Bose | Automobile anti-air pollution device |
US3922871A (en) * | 1974-04-15 | 1975-12-02 | Dmytro Bolesta | Heating and cooling by separation of faster from slower molecules of a gas |
US4381171A (en) * | 1978-10-20 | 1983-04-26 | Cummins Engine Company, Inc. | Casting for a turbine wheel |
US4473931A (en) * | 1982-03-24 | 1984-10-02 | Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. | Method of producing a turbine casing |
US4893986A (en) * | 1979-10-29 | 1990-01-16 | Rockwell International Corporation | High-pressure high-temperature coal slurry centrifugal pump and let-down turbine |
US4959966A (en) * | 1989-02-17 | 1990-10-02 | Berge A. Dimijian | Ice forming apparatus |
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US2529880A (en) * | 1949-03-15 | 1950-11-14 | Elliott Co | Turboexpander |
US3091182A (en) * | 1960-12-08 | 1963-05-28 | Shell Oil Co | Centrifugal pumps |
US3892070A (en) * | 1970-05-08 | 1975-07-01 | Ranendra K Bose | Automobile anti-air pollution device |
US3784324A (en) * | 1971-03-31 | 1974-01-08 | Tno | Centrifugal fluid vanes compressor |
US3922871A (en) * | 1974-04-15 | 1975-12-02 | Dmytro Bolesta | Heating and cooling by separation of faster from slower molecules of a gas |
US4381171A (en) * | 1978-10-20 | 1983-04-26 | Cummins Engine Company, Inc. | Casting for a turbine wheel |
US4893986A (en) * | 1979-10-29 | 1990-01-16 | Rockwell International Corporation | High-pressure high-temperature coal slurry centrifugal pump and let-down turbine |
US4473931A (en) * | 1982-03-24 | 1984-10-02 | Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. | Method of producing a turbine casing |
US4959966A (en) * | 1989-02-17 | 1990-10-02 | Berge A. Dimijian | Ice forming apparatus |
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