Axial flow rotating machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11053807-B2
Application number	US-201816619660-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 6, 2018
Priority date	Jun 12, 2017
Publication date	Jul 6, 2021
Grant date	Jul 6, 2021

Abstract

An axial flow rotating machine includes: a rotor; a plurality of vanes; and a medium flow modification member. Each of the vanes has an inner shroud and one or more seal fins. An annular groove, which is recessed toward a radially inner side, in which the inner shroud and the seal fins are placed in a non-contact manner, is formed at a rotor shaft. A distance from an end of the inner shroud on a furthest axially downstream side to a downstream-side groove side surface is a distance (L). A distance (Lf) from a most-downstream seal fin to a medium flow modification surface is equal to or less than the distance (L) in the axially downstream side.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An axial flow rotating machine comprising:
a rotor that is configured to rotate about an axial line;
a casing that covers an outer circumferential side of the rotor;
a plurality of vanes that are provided inside the casing and are aligned in a circumferential direction with respect to the axial line; and
a medium flow modification member that has a medium flow modification surface extending in a radial direction with respect to the axial line,
wherein the casing has a medium inlet port that guides a working medium into the casing and a medium outlet port that is located on an axially downstream side that is a downstream side in an axial line direction, in which the axial line extends, beyond the medium inlet port,
the rotor has, around the axial line, a rotor shaft that is elongated in the axial line direction, in which the axial line extends, and a plurality of blades that are aligned in the circumferential direction and are secured to the rotor shaft,
both the plurality of vanes and the plurality of blades are disposed between the medium inlet port and the medium outlet port in the axial line direction, and the plurality of blades are disposed on the axially downstream side beyond the plurality of vanes,
each of the plurality of vanes has a vane body that extends in the radial direction and has a vane shape, an inner shroud that is provided on a radially inner side with respect to the axial line of the vane body, and one or more seal fins that are provided on the radially inner side of the inner shroud,
an annular grove, which is recessed toward the radially inner side and has an annular shape around the axial line, in which the inner shroud and the one or more seal fins are placed in a non-contact manner, is formed at the rotor shaft,
the annular groove has a groove bottom surface that is directed to a radially outer side with respect to the axial line and a downstream-side groove side surface that spreads from an end of the groove bottom surface on the axially downstream side toward the radially outer side,
the medium flow modification surface is directed to an axially upstream side that is on a side opposite to the axially downstream side in the axial line direction and spreads from the groove bottom surface toward the radially outer side,
a distance between an end of the inner shroud on the furthest axially downstream side to the downstream-side groove side surface in the axial line direction is a distance L,
the medium flow modification surface is disposed on the axially upstream side beyond the downstream-side groove side surface,
and a distance Lf from a most-downstream seal fin on the furthest axially downstream side among the one or more seal fins to the medium flow modification surface in the axial line direction is equal to or less than the distance L on the axially downstream side.

2. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inner shroud has a downstream-side end surface that is directed to the axially downstream side and faces the downstream-side groove side surface, and
the downstream-side end surface includes an inclined surface that is gradually directed to the axially downstream side toward the radially outer side.

3. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 2 , wherein the inclined surface is present at a direction of 170° with respect to the medium flow modification surface from an end of the medium flow modification surface on the radially outer side.

4. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the inner shroud has a shroud main body in which the vane body is provided on the radially outer side and a seal ring, which is secured to the shroud main body on the radially inner side, at which the one or more seal fins are provided on the radially inner side, and
the seal ring has the inclined surface.

5. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the inner shroud has a gas path surface, which is directed to the radially outer side, at which the vane body is formed, and
the inclined surface is present at least within a range from the gas path surface of the inner shroud to a position at a half distance of a thickness of the inner shroud in the radial direction toward the radially inner side.

6. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 5 , wherein an end of the inclined surface on the radially inner side is located within a range from the gas path surface of the inner shroud to a position at the half distance of the thickness of the inner shroud in the radial direction toward the radially inner side.

7. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 2 , wherein the medium flow modification surface is located within a region in which the inclined surface is present in the axial line direction.

8. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 2 , wherein a modification surface height that is a distance from the groove bottom surface to an end of the medium flow modification surface on the radially outer side in the radial direction is lower than an inclined surface height that is a distance from the groove bottom surface to an end of the inclined surface on the radially inner side in the radial direction.

9. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 2 , wherein an imaginary extension line from the inclined surface toward the radially outer side and toward the axially downstream side does not intersect the downstream-side groove side surface.

10. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein a shortest distance from an end of the medium flow modification surface on the radially outer side to the inner shroud is equal to or less than the distance L.

11. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the distance Lf is a distance that is equal to or greater than 0.5 times the distance L.

12. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the modification surface height that is a distance from the groove bottom surface to the end of the medium flow modification surface on the radially outer side in the radial direction is equal to or less than a seal surface height that is a distance from the groove bottom surface to an end of the inner shroud on the radially inner side in the radial direction.

13. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the modification surface height that is a distance from the groove bottom surface to the end of the medium flow modification surface on the radially outer side in the radial direction is equal to or less than a fin height that is a length of the one or more seal fins in the radial direction.

14. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the casing is a steam turbine casing, and
the steam turbine casing has a steam inlet port that serves as the medium inlet port that guides steam as the working medium into the steam turbine casing and a steam outlet port that serves as the medium outlet port.

15. The axial flow rotating machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the casing is a gas turbine casing, and
the gas turbine casing has a combustion gas inlet port that serves as the medium inlet port that guides combustion gas as the working medium into the gas turbine casing and a combustion gas outlet port that serves as the medium outlet port.

16. An axial flow rotating machine comprising:
a rotor that is configured to rotate about an axial line;
a casing that covers an outer circumferential side of the rotor;
a plurality of vanes that are provided inside the casing and are aligned in a circumferential direction w

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys
• Mitsubishi Power Ltd

Inventors

• MOMMA Kazuhiro
• Senoo Shigeki

Classifications

• F01D11/02 Primary

  by non-contact sealings, e.g. of labyrinth type (for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator F01D11/08) · CPC title

• F01D9/041 Primary

  using blades (F01D5/148 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16J15/4472

  with axial path · CPC title

• F05D2220/31

  in steam turbines · CPC title

• F05D2240/55

  Seals · CPC title