Rotary machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10476365-B2
Application number	US-201615757591-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2016
Priority date	Sep 2, 2015
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a rotary machine capable of increasing cooling efficiency while preventing an increase in the weight and cost of a rotor even in a case where the diameter of the rotor is increased. A rotary machine including a rotor which is rotatable around a rotational axis, and a cooling device, wherein the rotor includes: a hollow cooling medium flow section provided in a center portion of the rotor in a radial direction and extending along the rotational axis; and a cooling target provided outward of the cooling medium flow section in the radial direction, and the rotary machine comprises a stationary section pipe which introduces a liquid phase cooling medium generated by cooling in the cooling device into the cooling medium flow section, and returns a gas phase cooling medium present in an inside of the cooling medium flow section from the cooling medium flow section toward the cooling device, the rotor including: a leading passage which leads the liquid phase cooling medium to a region which is in the vicinity of the cooling target through a first opening formed in a side surface of the cooling medium flow section, the side surface extending along the rotational axis; and a return passage which returns the gas phase cooling medium to the inside of the cooling medium flow section, the gas phase cooling medium being generated by evaporation of the liquid phase cooling medium in the region which is in the vicinity of the cooling target, by heat exchange between the liquid phase cooling medium and the cooling target.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotary machine including a rotor which is rotatable around a rotational axis, and a cooling device,
wherein the rotor includes:
a hollow cooling medium flow section provided in a center portion of the rotor in a radial direction and extending along the rotational axis; and
a cooling target provided outward of the cooling medium flow section in the radial direction,
the cooling medium flow section and the cooling target being spaced apart in the radial direction,
the rotary machine comprising:
a stationary section pipe which introduces a liquid phase cooling medium generated by cooling in the cooling device into the cooling medium flow section, and returns a gas phase cooling medium present in an inside of the cooling medium flow section from the cooling medium flow section toward the cooling device,
the rotor including:
a leading passage which leads the liquid phase cooling medium to a region which is in the vicinity of the cooling target through a first opening formed in a side surface of the cooling medium flow section, the side surface extending along the rotational axis; and
a return passage which returns the gas phase cooling medium to the inside of the cooling medium flow section, the gas phase cooling medium being generated by evaporation of the liquid phase cooling medium in the region which is in the vicinity of the cooling target, by heat exchange between the liquid phase cooling medium and the cooling target,
wherein the return passage is configured to return the gas phase cooling medium to the inside of the cooling medium flow section, through a second opening formed in the cooling medium flow section and located inward of the first opening in the radial direction of the rotor.

2. The rotary machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second opening is formed in a center portion of a side surface of one end portion of the cooling medium flow section in a direction of the rotational axis.

3. The rotary machine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the cooling target includes a plurality of cooling targets arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotational axis,
wherein the leading passage is configured to lead the liquid phase cooling medium to regions which are in the vicinity of the plurality of cooling targets through first openings which are equal in number to the plurality of cooling targets, and
wherein the return passage includes a plurality of first passages which lead the gas phase cooling medium from the regions which are in the vicinity of the plurality of cooling targets to the center portion of the rotor in the radial direction, and a second passage extending along the rotational axis so that the plurality of first passages are collectively connected to the second opening via the second passage, in the center portion of the rotor in the radial direction.

4. The rotary machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the return passage and the leading passage constitute a double passage.

5. The rotary machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein a length of the cooling medium flow section in a direction of the rotational axis is shorter than a length of the cooling target in the direction of the rotational axis.

6. The rotary machine according to claim 4 ,
wherein the rotor includes an ingress prevention section which prevents ingress of the liquid phase cooling medium from the cooling medium flow section into the return passage constituting the double passage together with the leading passage.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd
• National Univ Corporation Tokyo Univ Of Marine Science And Technology

Inventors

• Murase Yohei
• Yanase Etsuya
• Yanamoto Toshiyuki
• Izumi Mitsuru
• Miki Motohiro
• Yamaguchi Kota

Classifications

• H02K1/32

  with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium · CPC title

• H02K9/20

  wherein the cooling medium vaporises within the machine casing · CPC title

• H02K55/04 Primary

  with rotating field windings · CPC title

• Y02E40/625

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H02K9/19

  for machines with closed casing and closed-circuit cooling using a liquid cooling medium, e.g. oil · CPC title