Gas turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10107194-B2
Application number	US-201414563868-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2014
Priority date	Dec 9, 2013
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

A gas turbine stage, in particular to an aircraft gas turbine. This gas turbine includes at least one casing having at least one bleed duct and at least one bore, and further includes at least one variable guide vane having a trunnion, a rotary plate, and a guide vane airfoil. The trunnion is disposed in the bore, and the guide vane airfoil is integrally formed with the rotary plate. The guide vane airfoil integrally formed with the rotary plate extends beyond this rotary plate in such a way that, viewed in the direction of flow of the gas path of the gas turbine, a flag corner of the guide vane airfoil, which corner faces the bleed duct and/or is in particular a virtual one, is located downstream of the beginning of the inlet opening of the bleed duct.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gas turbine comprising:
at least one casing provided with at least one bleed duct and at least one bore;
at least one variable guide vane having a trunnion, a rotary plate, and a guide vane airfoil, the trunnion being disposed in the bore, and the guide vane airfoil being integrally formed with the rotary plate,
the guide vane airfoil extending beyond the rotary plate in such a way that, viewed in a direction of flow of the gas path of the gas turbine, a flag corner of the guide vane airfoil facing the bleed duct is located downstream of a beginning of the inlet opening of the bleed duct, wherein the bleed duct connects a primary gas path to a secondary gas path; and
at least one rotor blade located downstream of the guide vane, the at least one casing separating the primary flow path from the secondary flow path, the primary flow path and the secondary flow path extending axially past the at least one guide vane and the at least one rotor blade vane.

2. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein the bore is located upstream of the bleed duct.

3. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein a first circumferential angle between a vertical line and the bore is equal to the second circumferential angle between the vertical line and the inlet opening of the bleed duct.

4. A gas turbine comprising:
at least one casing provided with at least one bleed duct and at least one bore; and
at least one variable guide vane having a trunnion, a rotary plate, and a guide vane airfoil, the trunnion being disposed in the bore, and the guide vane airfoil being integrally formed with the rotary plate,
the guide vane airfoil extending beyond the rotary plate in such a way that, viewed in a direction of flow of the gas path of the gas turbine, a flag corner of the guide vane airfoil facing the bleed duct is located downstream of a beginning of the inlet opening of the bleed duct;
wherein an outer surface of the annular space between the bore and the inlet opening of the bleed duct has a different radius than an outer surface of the annular space downstream of the inlet opening of the bleed duct.

5. A gas turbine comprising:
at least one casing provided with at least one bleed duct and at least one bore; and
at least one variable guide vane having a trunnion, a rotary plate, and a guide vane airfoil, the trunnion being disposed in the bore, and the guide vane airfoil being integrally formed with the rotary plate,
the guide vane airfoil extending beyond the rotary plate in such a way that, viewed in a direction of flow of the gas path of the gas turbine, a flag corner of the guide vane airfoil facing the bleed duct is located downstream of a beginning of the inlet opening of the bleed duct;
wherein an outer surface of the annular space between the bore and the inlet opening of the bleed duct has a larger radius than a lip located downstream of the inlet opening of the bleed duct.

6. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein a first axial distance D exists between a beginning and a trailing edge of the guide vane, and B represents an axial length of the flag, and wherein the ratio D/B is between 0.25 and 0.90.

7. The gas turbine as recited in claim 6 wherein the ratio D/B is between 0.35 and 0.55.

8. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein a first axial distance D exists between a beginning and a trailing edge of the guide vane, and a second axial distance C exists between the beginning and an end of the inlet opening, and wherein the ratio D/C is between 0.15 and 0.45.

9. The gas turbine as recited in claim 8 wherein the ratio D/C is between 0.25 and 0.35.

10. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein a first radius r 1 exists between a main shaft of the gas turbine and the outer casing, and a second axial distance C exists between the beginning and an end of the inlet opening, and wherein the ratio r 1 /C is between 0 and 0.6.

11. The gas turbine as recited in claim 10 wherein the ratio r 1 /C is between 0.2 and 0.45.

12. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein, viewed in the direction of flow of the gas path of the gas turbine, the flag corner of the guide vane airfoil is located downstream of the beginning of the inlet opening of the bleed duct when the opening angle of the variable guide vane is between 0° and 60°.

13. The gas turbine as recited in claim 12 wherein the opening angle is between 15° and 40°.

14. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein a region of the flag near the rotary plate of the variable guide vane has a smaller radius than the flag corner or the same radius as the flag corner.

15. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein the inlet opening is circular, square or rectangular in shape, or a circumferential groove, or the bleed duct is cylindrical, conical or cuboidal in shape.

16. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein a plurality of variable guide vanes of the at least one guide vane form a guide vane ring, and wherein two of the plurality of variable guide vanes have a different angular spacing than two other variable guide vanes of the plurality of guide vanes within the guide vane ring.

17. A gas turbine comprising:
at least one casing provided with at least one bleed duct and at least one bore;
at least one variable guide vane having a trunnion, a rotary plate, and a guide vane airfoil, the trunnion being disposed in the bore, and the guide vane airfoil being integrally formed with the rotary plate,
the guide vane airfoil extending beyond the rotary plate in such a way that, viewed in a direction of flow of the gas path of the gas turbine, a flag corner of the guide vane airfoil facing the bleed duct is located downstream of a beginning of the inlet opening of the bleed duct, wherein the bleed duct connects a primary gas path to a secondary gas path;

wherein a forward boundary of the inlet opening has a first opening angle with respect to the engine axis or a rearward boundary of the inlet opening has a second opening angle with respect to the engine axis, and wherein the first or second opening angle is between 30° and 60°, viewed in the direction of flow.

18. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein the variable guide vane and the bleed ducts are located in the compressor of the gas turbine.

19. The gas turbine as recited in claim 18 wherein the compressor is a high-pressure compressor.

20. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 wherein the flag corner is a virtual flag corner.

21. An aircraft gas turbine comprising the gas turbine as recited in claim 1 .

22. The gas turbine as recited in claim 1 , wherein the secondary flow path is located radially outside of the at least one casing.

Assignees

• MTU Aero Engines AG

Inventors

• Lahmer Manfred
• Sahota Harsimar

Classifications

• F02C9/18

  by bleeding, bypassing or acting on variable working fluid interconnections between turbines or compressors or their stages {(F02C3/113 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• F04D29/563

  specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F01D17/16

  by means of nozzle vanes · CPC title

• Y02T50/671

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F04D29/545

  Ducts · CPC title