Gas turbine blade

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10006368-B2
Application number	US-201414547730-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2014
Priority date	Nov 20, 2013
Publication date	Jun 26, 2018
Grant date	Jun 26, 2018

Abstract

The invention provides a gas turbine blade that is capable of reducing the temperature difference between the pressure side and the suction side even if the trailing-edge cooling channel is narrow, thereby lessening thermal stress as well.
A gas turbine blade 1 comprises: an internal trailing-edge cooling channel formed by a suction-side cooling target surface 6 a and a pressure-side cooling target surface 6 b that face each other; and multiple vortex-generator-shaped fins 10 disposed between the two cooling target surfaces 6 a and 6 b such that the fins 10 connect the two cooling target surfaces 6 a and 6 b . Each of the vortex-generator-shaped fins 10 includes an oblique surface 33 located on the downstream side of the flow direction of a cooling medium. A normal line 34 to the oblique surface 33 intersects with one of the two cooling target surfaces 6 a and 6 b.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gas turbine blade comprising:
an internal cooling channel formed by two mutually-facing cooling target surfaces, one of the cooling target surfaces being located on a suction side, the other being located on a pressure side; and
a plurality of structural components disposed between the two cooling target surfaces such that the plurality of structural components connect the two cooling target surfaces, wherein
each of the plurality of structural components is pyramidal-frustum-shaped and includes: i) two bottom surfaces contacted with the two cooling target surfaces, the two bottom surfaces having triangular shapes that differ in area, each triangular shape having three vertices with one vertex of each triangular shape facing the upstream side of a flow direction of a cooling medium and the other two vertices facing a downstream side of the flow direction of the cooling medium, and ii) an oblique surface that is oblique relative to the flow direction of the cooling medium is located on the downstream side of the flow direction of the cooling medium,
the two cooling target surfaces are subject to different thermal loads, and
a normal line to the oblique surface intersects with one of the two cooling target surfaces that is subject to higher thermal loads than the other of the two cooling target surfaces.

2. The gas turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein the oblique surface is isosceles-trapezoid-shaped and an angle formed between the oblique surface and one of the two bottom surfaces in the flow direction of the cooling medium is in the range from 30 to 60 degrees.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Horiuchi Yasuhiro
• Tagawa Hisato
• Morisaki Tetsuro

Classifications

• F05D2250/38

  angled, e.g. sweep angle · CPC title

• F05D2250/21

  pyramidal · CPC title

• F02C7/18 Primary

  the medium being gaseous, e.g. air {(F02C7/125 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• F05D2260/2212

  by creating turbulence · CPC title

• F05D2260/221

  Improvement of heat transfer · CPC title