Impeller and rotating machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10859092-B2
Application number	US-201716312570-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2017
Priority date	Oct 21, 2016
Publication date	Dec 8, 2020
Grant date	Dec 8, 2020

Abstract

An impeller includes a disk, a long blade that is disposed at an interval in a circumferential direction on a disk surface on a first side in an axial direction of the disk, and that reaches an outer peripheral edge of the disk, and a short blade that is disposed between the long blades adjacent to each other on the disk surface, and that reaches the outer peripheral edge. A circumferential length of the short blade gradually increases as the short blade faces outward in the radial direction, and a circumferential length of the long blade in the outer peripheral edge is smaller than the circumferential length of the short blade in the outer peripheral edge.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An impeller comprising:
a disk having a disk shape centered on an axis;
a long blade that is disposed at an interval in a circumferential direction on a disk surface on a first side in an axial direction of the disk, and that reaches an outer peripheral edge of the disk by extending toward the first side in the circumferential direction as the long blade faces outward in a radial direction; and
a short blade that is disposed between the long blades adjacent to each other on the disk surface, and that reaches the outer peripheral edge by extending to the first side in the circumferential direction as the short blade faces outward in the radial direction, from a radially outer position of an inner side end portion of the long blade in the radial direction,
wherein a circumferential length of the short blade gradually increases as the short blade faces outward in the radial direction,
wherein a circumferential length of the long blade in the outer peripheral edge is smaller than the circumferential length of the short blade in the outer peripheral edge,
wherein a location where a flow path width is narrowest between the long blade and the short blade in a portion where the long blade and the short blade are adjacent to each other is a second throat position,
wherein a thickness of the long blade gradually increases outward in the radial direction from an inner end portion in the radial direction, and is thickest at the second throat position, and
wherein the thickness of the long blade in a radially outer portion from the second throat position is thinner than the thickness of the long blade at the second throat position.

2. The impeller according to claim 1 ,
wherein the long blade has a long blade pressure surface which faces the first side in the circumferential direction and a long blade suction surface which faces the second side in the circumferential direction,
wherein the short blade has a short blade pressure surface which faces the first side in the circumferential direction and a short blade suction surface which faces the second side in the circumferential direction, and
wherein when a circumferential length from a suction side of the long blade to a pressure side of the short blade on the outer peripheral edge of the disk is set to a flow path width on a side of the long blade suction surface and a circumferential length from a pressure side of the long blade to a suction side of the short blade is set to a flow path width on a side of the long blade pressure surface, the flow path width on the side of the long blade suction surface is equal to or narrower than the flow path width on the side of the long blade pressure surface.

3. The impeller according to claim 2 ,
wherein a ratio between the flow path width on the side of the long blade pressure surface and the flow path width on the side of the long blade suction surface falls within a range of 3:7 to 1:1.

4. The impeller according to claim 1 ,
wherein a blade length of the short blade is 20% to 80% of a blade length of the long blade.

5. The impeller according to claim 1 ,
wherein when a width of the long blade on the outer peripheral edge is set to a long blade outlet width TL, a width of the short blade on the outer peripheral edge is set to a short blade outlet width TS, an outer diameter of the impeller is set to D, and the number of the long blades is set to Z, a relationship of TL<TS<0.5×πD/Z-TL is satisfied.

6. A rotating machine comprising:
a rotor that extends along an axis;
the impeller that is attached to the rotor according to claim 1 ; and
a casing that covers the impeller from an outer peripheral side.

7. The rotating machine according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a diffuser that is disposed on the outer peripheral side of the impeller,
wherein the diffuser has a diffuser blade whose blade thickness gradually increases from a leading edge to a trailing edge.

8. The rotating machine according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a diffuser that is disposed on the outer peripheral side of the impeller,
wherein the diffuser has
a diffuser short blade whose blade thickness gradually increases from a leading edge to a trailing edge, and
a diffuser long blade whose blade thickness is thinner than that of the trailing edge of the diffuser short blade.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Sano Takeshi
• Iino Masamichi
• Meguro Keiichi

Classifications

• F05D2250/52

  Outlet · CPC title

• F04D29/448

  bladed diffusers · CPC title

• F04D29/2216

  Shape, geometry (F04D29/2211 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F04D29/44

  Fluid-guiding means, e.g. diffusers · CPC title

• F04D29/2222

  Construction and assembly (F04D29/2211 takes precedence) · CPC title