Turbine seal fin leakage flow rate control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9593587-B2
Application number	US-201113580078-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2011
Priority date	Feb 25, 2010
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a turbine in which seal fins ( 15 ) are provided to a hub shroud ( 41 ) to protrude toward a bottom surface ( 33 a ) of an annular groove ( 33 ), small gaps (H) are formed between the tip ends of the seal fins and the bottom surface of the annular groove, and assuming that the axial distance between a first seal fin ( 15 a ) disposed on the front edge side of the hub shroud among the seal fins and a front edge ( 41 a ) of the hub shroud is (L) and the axial distance between the front edge of the hub shroud and an inside surface ( 33 b ) of the annular groove is (Bu), the first seal fin is disposed to satisfy L/Bu<0.3.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A turbine comprising:
a blade; and
a structure which is formed to surround a periphery of the blade and rotates relative to the blade,
wherein an annular groove that ensures a gap from a tip end of the blade is formed at a position of the structure corresponding to the tip end of the blade,
at least one seal fin protrudes from the tip end of the blade toward a bottom surface of the annular groove, and a small gap in a radial direction is formed between the tip end of the seal fin and the bottom surface of the annular groove,
among the seal fins, assuming that an axial distance between the upstream end side seal fin disposed on the upstream end side of the blade and an upstream end of the blade is L and an axial distance between the upstream end of the blade and an inside surface on an upstream side of the annular groove is Bu, the upstream end side seal fin is disposed to satisfy:
L/Bu≦ 0.1,

a small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to the upstream end of the blade, and
the upstream end side seal fin is disposed on the upstream end side of the blade among the seal fins is disposed to be in the same plane as an inside surface on a downstream side of the small annular groove.

2. The turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the upstream end side seal fin is disposed to be in the same plane as the upstream end of the blade.

3. The turbine according to claim 2 ,
wherein a plurality of the seal fins are provided to the tip end of the blade,
a stepped portion is provided in the annular groove from the upstream end of the blade toward a downstream side, and
the stepped portion is formed so that a height thereof is gradually lowered toward the downstream due to at least one level, and a downstream side edge portion formed with the level is formed to be positioned between the seal fins which are adjacent.

4. The turbine according to claim 3 ,
wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

5. The turbine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

6. The turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of the seal fins are provided to the tip end of the blade,
a stepped portion is provided in the annular groove from the upstream end of the blade toward a downstream side, and
the stepped portion is formed so that a height thereof is gradually lowered toward the downstream due to at least one level, and a downstream side edge portion formed with the level is formed to be positioned between the seal fins which are adjacent.

7. The turbine according to claim 6 ,
wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

8. The turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

Assignees

• Matsumoto Kazuyuki
• Kuwamura Yoshihiro
• Oyama Hiroharu
• Tanaka Yoshinori
• Matsuo Asaharu
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Matsumoto Kazuyuki
• Kuwamura Yoshihiro
• Oyama Hiroharu
• Tanaka Yoshinori
• Matsuo Asaharu

Classifications

• F01D11/02

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

• F05D2240/127

  Vortex generators, turbulators, or the like, for mixing · CPC title

• F01D11/001 Primary

  for sealing space between stator blade and rotor · CPC title

• F16J15/447

  Labyrinth packings · CPC title

• F01D11/08 Primary

  for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator (specially-shaped blade tips therefor F01D5/20) · CPC title