Gas turbine blade

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9869184-B2
Application number	US-201514677343-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2015
Priority date	Apr 4, 2014
Publication date	Jan 16, 2018
Grant date	Jan 16, 2018

Abstract

A blade for a gas turbine has a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are connected by a pressure side and an intake side. In at least one segment of a stacking axis, the blade has a cross section with a profile with a common profile tangent at a leading edge region and a trailing edge region, a leading edge tangent at the leading edge, which is perpendicular to the common profile tangent, a trailing edge tangent at the trailing edge, which is perpendicular to the common profile tangent, and a camber line, which extends, at an equal distance from the pressure side and the intake side, from a center point of a leading edge circle, up to a center point of a trailing edge circle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A blade ( 1 ) for a gas turbine, comprising:
a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are connected by a pressure side and an intake side;
wherein, in at least one segment of a stacking axis, the blade has a cross section with a profile with
a common profile tangent at a leading edge region and at a trailing edge region,
a leading edge tangent at the leading edge, which is perpendicular to the common profile tangent, the leading edge tangent having a contact point on the profile and resting on the profile in a flow direction;
a leading edge circle having the contact point of the leading edge tangent in common, the leading edge circle having a center point that lies at a point of intersection of a normal line at the contact point of the leading edge tangent on the profile with a profile center line that extends through the profile at an equal distance from the pressure side and the intake side and includes this contact point;
a trailing edge tangent at the trailing edge, which is perpendicular to the common profile tangent, the trailing edge tangent having a contact point on the profile and resting on the profile opposite to the flow direction;
a trailing edge circle having the contact point of the trailing edge tangent in common and having a center point that lies at a point of intersection of a normal line at the contact point of the trailing edge tangent on the profile with said profile center line and includes this contact point of the trailing edge tangent; and
a camber line, which extends, at an equal distance from the pressure side and the intake side, from the center point of the leading edge circle, up to the center point of the trailing edge circle;
wherein the leading edge tangent is parallel to the trailing edge tangent;
wherein the blade thickness between the pressure side and the intake side increases, extending from a trailing edge thickness at the center point of the trailing edge circle in a camber line segment, the length of which is at least 15% and at most 25% of a length of the camber line between the center point of the leading edge circle and the center point of the trailing edge circle, toward the center point of the leading edge circle, increasing to at least two times the trailing edge thickness.

2. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein the blade thickness increases in a monotonic manner, proceeding from the trailing edge thickness in the camber line segment to the center point of the leading edge circle.

3. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein the blade thickness increases linearly in a region of the camber line segment near the trailing edge, starting at the center point of the trailing edge circle and the length of the blade thickness is about 50% of the length of the camber line segment and extends toward the center point of the leading edge circle.

4. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein a maximum blade thickness is at least 15% and/or at most 30% of the length of the camber line between the center point of the leading edge circle and the center point of the trailing edge circle.

5. The blade according to claim 4 , wherein, in a region of the camber line segment near the leading edge, this region extending to an end of the camber line segment near the leading edge, and the length of this region is at least 50% of the length of the camber line segment, the blade thickness increases in a monotonically increasing or decreasing manner toward the center point of the leading edge circle.

6. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein a maximum blade thickness is at least 4% and/or at most 15% of the length of the camber line between the center point of the leading edge circle and the center point of the trailing edge circle.

7. The blade according to claim 6 , wherein, in a region of the camber line segment near the leading edge, this region extending to an end of the camber line segment near the leading edge, and the length of this region is at least 50% of the length of the camber line segment, the blade thickness increases in a monotonically decreasing manner toward the center point of the leading edge circle.

8. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein the segment of the stacking axis extends over at least 25% of the height of the blade element.

9. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein the trailing edge thickness is at most 0.5 mm.

10. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein a wedge angle at the trailing edge is at least 9° and/or at most 17°.

11. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein the blade is a guide vane or rotating blade for a compressor stage or a turbine stage of a gas turbine.

12. The blade according to claim 1 , wherein the blade is configured for use in an aircraft engine.

Assignees

• MTU Aero Engines AG

Inventors

• Huebner Norbert
• Mahle Inga
• Haid Ulrich
• Koerber Kai

Classifications

• F05D2240/121

  related to the leading edge of a stator vane · CPC title

• F05D2240/122

  related to the trailing edge of a stator vane · CPC title

• F01D5/147 Primary

  Construction, i.e. structural features, e.g. of weight-saving hollow blades (F01D5/148, F01D5/16 and F01D5/20 take precedence; blade shape F01D5/141; blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities F01D5/18; heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades F01D5/18) · CPC title

• F04D29/324

  Blades · CPC title

• Y02T50/673

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic