Rotor for a steam turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9869197-B2
Application number	US-201314398463-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2013
Priority date	May 7, 2012
Publication date	Jan 16, 2018
Grant date	Jan 16, 2018

Abstract

A turbomachine is provided, wherein the rotor comprises a planetary gear on which low-pressure end stage blades are arranged, wherein the planetary gear is designed in such a way that the frequency of the rotating blades is lower than the frequency of the rotor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotor for a turbomachine having a planetary gearset comprising
a shaft and a crown wheel which is arranged about the shaft and adapted to be arranged in a rotationally fixed manner,
wherein the crown wheel has internal teeth which interact with multiple internal planet gears,
a planet disk which is arranged about the shaft and on which the planet gears are rotatably arranged,
wherein the shaft has a sun gear which interacts with the planet gears and rotor blades which are arranged on the planet disk,
wherein rotor blade stages formed of further rotor blades are arranged fixedly on the rotor, and
wherein the planet disk is sealed with respect to the shaft.

2. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein at least four planet gears are arranged.

3. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the planet gears, the sun gear and the crown wheel are dimensioned such that a shaft rotational frequency of the shaft is higher than a planet disk rotational frequency of the planet disk.

4. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the planet disk is connected to a rotor disk.

5. The rotor as claimed in claim 4 ,
wherein the rotor blades are arranged on the rotor disk.

6. A steam turbine having a rotor as claimed in claim 1 .

7. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a final stage of rotor blades comprising the rotor blades.

8. An apparatus, comprising:
a rotor shaft;
a first stage of a turbine comprising further rotor blades secured to the rotor shaft;
a planetary gearset comprising: a crown wheel configured to be fixed against rotational movement relative to the rotor shaft; internal planet gears; a planet disk; and a sun gear secured to the rotor shaft; and
a second stage of the turbine comprising rotor blades secured to the planet disk;
wherein the planetary gearset is configured to cause the rotor blades to rotate about the rotor shaft at a different speed than do the further rotor blades.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , further comprising the turbine.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Devries Jorg

Classifications

• F02C3/113

  with variable power transmission between rotors · CPC title

• F01D25/183

  Sealing means · CPC title

• F01D3/02

  characterised by having one fluid flow in one axial direction and another fluid flow in the opposite direction · CPC title

• F05D2260/40311

  of the epicyclical, planetary or differential type · CPC title

• F01D15/12 Primary

  Combinations with mechanical gearing (driven by multiple engines F01D13/00) · CPC title