Cooling structure for turbine, and gas turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10472969-B2
Application number	US-201515524486-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2015
Priority date	Nov 12, 2014
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

A cooling structure for a turbine includes a plurality of disks configured to rotate integrally with blades, the disks being arranged along a rotational axis; and the disks have disk holes defined therein and arranged in a circumferential direction for supplying cooling air for cooling the blades to downstream disks. At least one of the disk holes is set such that, when a rotational direction of the disk is defined as a positive direction and a direction opposite the rotational direction is defined as a negative direction, an outlet absolute circumferential velocity vector which is a component in the rotational direction of a velocity vector of the cooling air at an outlet of the disk hole is smaller than an inlet absolute circumferential velocity vector which is a component in the rotational direction of a velocity vector of the cooling air at an inlet of the disk hole.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cooling structure for a turbine, the cooling structure comprising:
disks configured to rotate integrally with blades about a rotational axis in a rotational direction, the disks being disposed in a plurality of stages along the rotational axis; and
disk holes defined in the disks along a circumferential direction, the disk holes being configured to supply cooling air to the disks on a downstream side so as to cool the blades,
wherein:
at least one of the disks, from among the disks from a second of the disks onward from an upstream side in a flow direction of the cooling air, is configured as a motive power recovery disk in which at least one of the disk holes is set such that an outlet absolute circumferential velocity vector, which is a component in the rotational direction of a velocity vector of the cooling air at an outlet of the at least one of the disk holes, is smaller than an inlet absolute circumferential velocity vector, which is a component in the rotational direction of a velocity vector of the cooling air at an inlet of the at least one of the disk holes;
the rotational direction of the motive power recovery disk is defined as a positive direction and a direction opposite the rotational direction of the motive power recovery disk is defined as a negative direction; and
the cooling air is configured to be supplied to the motive power recovery disk from one of the disks disposed further to the upstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air than the motive power recovery disk.

2. The cooling structure according to claim 1 ,
wherein the outlet of the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk is disposed further to the upstream side, in the rotational direction, than the inlet of the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk.

3. The cooling structure according to claim 2 ,
wherein, in a cross section cut along the circumferential direction, the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk has an airfoil shape that curves in the direction opposite the rotational direction of the motive power recovery disk toward the downstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air.

4. The cooling structure according to claim 2 ,
wherein the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk is narrowed on the downstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air.

5. The cooling structure according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a cross section cut along the circumferential direction, wall surfaces defining the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk are straight lines.

6. The cooling structure according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a TOBI nozzle configured to form a circulating flow of the cooling air rotating in the same direction as the rotational direction of the motive power recovery disk, the cooling air being supplied from the TOBI nozzle to the motive power recovery disk.

7. The cooling structure according to claim 6 ,
wherein the TOBI nozzle is in at least one of spaces between the disks.

8. The cooling structure according to claim 1 , wherein:
an inclination angle of the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk and an inclination angle of the disk hole of the one of the disks disposed further to the upstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air than the motive power recovery are different angles such that the outlet absolute circumferential velocity vector is smaller than the inlet absolute circumferential velocity vector in the motive power recovery disk.

9. The cooling structure according to claim 1 , wherein:
a distance from the rotational axis to the at least one of the disk holes of the motive power recovery disk is different than a distance from the rotational axis to the disk hole of the one of the disks disposed further to the upstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air than the motive power recovery disk such that the outlet absolute circumferential velocity vector is smaller than the inlet absolute circumferential velocity vector in the motive power recovery disk.

10. A gas turbine comprising:
a compressor portion configured to take in and compress air; a combustion portion configured to generate combustion gas by combusting a fuel-air mixture of compressed air and a fuel supplied from outside; and a turbine portion configured to extract a rotational driving force from the combustion gas generated by the combustion portion, the turbine portion including the cooling structure according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Fujimura Daigo

Classifications

• F01D5/081

  Cooling fluid being directed on the side of the rotor disc or at the roots of the blades (F01D5/087 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F01D25/12

  Cooling · CPC title

• F05D2260/601

  using an ejector or a jet pump · CPC title

• F05D2220/32

  in gas turbines · CPC title

• F05D2260/20

  Heat transfer, e.g. cooling · CPC title