Inlet guide vane and centrifugal compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10544800-B2
Application number	US-201515565732-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2015
Priority date	Apr 14, 2015
Publication date	Jan 28, 2020
Grant date	Jan 28, 2020

Abstract

Provided are an inlet guide vane and a centrifugal compressor such that air can be caused to efficiently flow in with use of a simple shape. The inlet guide vane is disposed upstream of an impeller in a flow path of a centrifugal compressor. The inlet guide vane has: a plate-shaped plate section that is disposed in the flow path; and a rotation part that causes the plate section to rotate along an axis of rotation aligned with the radial direction of a rotary shaft of the centrifugal compressor. In a cross-section orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the rotation part, the plate section has, at the leading edge thereof on the upstream side of the flow path, a bent part that is tilted with respect to the other portions.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An inlet guide vane which is disposed on an upstream side of an impeller in a flow path of a centrifugal compressor, the vane comprising:
a plate-shaped plate portion which is disposed in the flow path; and
a rotation portion which rotates the plate portion with an axis in a radial direction of a rotary shaft of the centrifugal compressor as a rotation axis,
wherein the plate portion includes a bent portion inclined with respect to other portions at a leading edge on an upstream side of the flow path in a cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the rotation portion, and a center line of the bent portion is inclined to a center line of the other portions.

2. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein a center line of the bent portion is a curved line in the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the rotation portion.

3. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein a center line of the bent portion is a straight line in the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the rotation portion.

4. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein a boundary position between the bent portion and other portions with respect to the entire length L in a longitudinal direction of the plate portion in the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the rotation portion is constant.

5. The inlet guide vane according to claim 4 ,
wherein the bent portion is formed within a range from 0.1 L to 0.3 L on the leading edge side on the upstream side in the flow path with respect to the entire length L.

6. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein a distance between the rotation axis of the rotation portion in the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the rotation portion and the boundary position between the bent portion and the other portions is constant.

7. The inlet guide vane according to claim 6 ,
wherein the bent portion is formed within a range from 0.1 L to 0.3 L on the leading edge side on the upstream side in the flow path with respect to the entire length L in the longitudinal direction of the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis, at a position from 0.35 D to 0.7 D from an outer end portion in the radial direction with respect to a distance D of the outer end portion in the radial direction of the plate portion from the rotation axis.

8. The inlet guide vane according to claim 6 ,
wherein the bent portion is formed within a range from 0.1 L to 0.3 L on the leading edge side on the upstream side in the flow path with respect to the entire length L in the longitudinal direction of the cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis, at a position of 0.5 D with respect to the distance D of the outer end portion in the radial direction of the plate portion from the rotation axis.

9. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bent portion is inclined toward a side to be rotated at the time of being throttled.

10. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bent portion is inclined toward a side to be rotated at the time of having an excessive opening degree.

11. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the bent portion, a slit is formed from a surface on which an angle between the surface and the other portions is larger than 180° toward a surface on which an angle between the surface and the other portions is less than 180°, and
wherein in the slit, an opening of a surface side on which an angle between the surface and the other portions is larger than 180° is formed on an upstream side in the flow direction of an opening of a surface on which an angle between the surface and the other portions is less than 180°.

12. A centrifugal compressor, comprising:
the inlet guide vane according to claim 1 ; and
an impeller which is disposed on a downstream side of the inlet guide vane.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Thermal Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Koga Jun
• Hasegawa Yasushi
• Omura Shintaro

Classifications

• F04D17/10 Primary

  for compressing or evacuating · CPC title

• F04D29/284

  for compressors · CPC title

• F04D29/462

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/4213

  suction ports · CPC title

• F04D29/442 Primary

  rotating diffusers · CPC title