Turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9726027-B2
Application number	US-201113817893-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 8, 2011
Priority date	Sep 17, 2010
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A turbine includes: a blade body having a blade provided at one of a rotor rotatably supported and a stator provided around the rotor and extending in a radial direction and a shroud extending in a circumferential direction at a tip portion in the radial direction of the blade; and an accommodating concave body provided at another one of the rotor and the stator, extending in the circumferential direction, accommodating the shroud with a gap interposed therebetween, and relatively rotating with respect to the blade body, wherein a leakage flow leaked from a main flow flowing along the blade flows into the gap; and wherein the shroud is provided with a guide curved surface formed between a peripheral surface facing the accommodating concave body and a trailing edge end portion formed closer to a main flow side in a downstream side of the leakage flow than the peripheral surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A turbine comprising:
a rotor that is rotatably supported;
a stator around the rotor;
a blade body having a blade at one of the rotor and the stator and extending in a radial direction toward a first side from a second side and a shroud extending in a circumferential direction at a tip portion in the radial direction of the blade; and
an accommodating concave body at another of the rotor and the stator, extending in the circumferential direction, being configured to accommodate the shroud with a gap interposed there between, and relatively rotate with respect to the blade body;
wherein leakage flow leaked from main flow flowing along the blade is configured to flow into the gap,
wherein the shroud includes a guide curved surface between a peripheral surface facing the accommodating concave body and a trailing edge end portion that is closer to the main flow side than the peripheral surface in a downstream side of the leakage flow,
wherein the guide curved surface has a curved surface that is in a convex shape protruding outward toward the accommodating concave body and away from the blade and is continuously curved from the peripheral surface toward the trailing edge end portion, and
wherein the guide curved surface is configured to guide the leakage flow along the peripheral surface from the peripheral surface to the trailing edge end portion.

2. The turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the trailing edge end portion is an axial fin extending in a direction of a rotation axis.

3. The turbine according to claim 1 , wherein a guide pathway configured to perform guidance in a direction opposite to a relative rotation direction of the shroud with respect to the accommodating concave body is on the guide curved surface, and
in the guide pathway, an inflow portion configured to allow the leakage flow to flow into the guide pathway at the peripheral surface side and an outflow portion configured to allow the leakage flow to flow out of the guide pathway at the trailing edge end portion side are shifted in the opposite direction to the relative rotation direction.

4. The turbine according to claim 3 , wherein the guide pathway is in a groove shape.

5. The turbine according to claim 3 , wherein the guide pathway is a protrusion wall protruding in a direction normal to the guide curved surface.

6. The turbine according to claim 1 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

7. The turbine according to claim 1 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an elliptical shape.

8. The turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the guide curved surface is in a more concavo-convex shape compared to at least a surface of the blade.

9. The turbine according to claim 2 , wherein a guide pathway configured to perform guidance in a direction opposite to a relative rotation direction of the shroud with respect to the accommodating concave body is on the guide curved surface, and
in the guide pathway, an inflow portion configured to allow the leakage flow to flow into the guide pathway at the peripheral surface side and an outflow portion configured to allow the leakage flow to flow out of the guide pathway at the trailing edge end portion side are shifted in the opposite direction to the relative rotation direction.

10. The turbine according to claim 9 , wherein the guide pathway is in a groove shape.

11. The turbine according to claim 9 , wherein the guide pathway is a protrusion wall protruding in a direction normal to the guide curved surface.

12. The turbine according to claim 2 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

13. The turbine according to claim 3 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

14. The turbine according to claim 4 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

15. The turbine according to claim 5 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

16. The turbine according to claim 9 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

17. The turbine according to claim 10 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

18. The turbine according to claim 11 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an arc shape.

19. The turbine according to claim 2 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an elliptical shape.

20. The turbine according to claim 3 , wherein in the guide curved surface, a cross-sectional contour of a cross section of the guide curved surface along a plane intersecting the circumferential direction is in an elliptical shape.

Assignees

• Kuwamura Yoshihiro
• Matsumoto Kazuyuki
• Oyama Hiroharu
• Tanaka Yoshinori
• Matsuura Masaaki
• Matsuo Asaharu
• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

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

Classifications

• F01D9/00 Primary

  Stators · CPC title

• F05D2220/31

  in steam turbines · CPC title

• F01D11/08

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

• F01D5/225 Primary

  by shrouding · CPC title

• F01D11/001

  for sealing space between stator blade and rotor · CPC title