SHOWERHEAD HOLE SCHEME APPARATUS AND SYSTEM

• US 20160047250A1
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Published: 02/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rtx Corporation
• Original Assignee: United Technologies Corporation (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: LEWIS, SCOTT D.
• Granted Patent: US 10,041,356 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 25/12 Cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/186 Film cooling F01D5/187 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 9/041 using blades F01D5/148 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/32 in gas turbines
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/12 Fluid guiding means, e.g. vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/121 related to the leading edge of a stator vane
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/30 Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/303 related to the leading edge of a rotor blade
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/202 by film cooling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Abstract

The gas turbine component showerhead cooling hole layouts described herein include minimal lateral cooling hole exit diffusion on the middle showerhead cooling hole rows and interior facing sides of outer rows. In this way, rows of cooling holes may be placed close together. Stated another way, the outer showerhead cooling hole rows substantially only include lateral cooling hole exit diffusion in the direction away from the other rows to again allow the rows to be placed close together.

Claims

1. A gas turbine component having a showerhead cooling hole layout, comprising:

a pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes,

wherein a breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise a greater deflection in a γ

direction than in a δ

direction, where γ and

δ

are lateral directions;

a second row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, wherein a breakout of the second row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise about 0 to 5 degrees of deflection in the γ

direction and the δ

direction; and

a suction side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, wherein a breakout of the aft most row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise a greater deflection in the δ

direction than in the γ

direction.

2. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, further comprising a third row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, wherein the breakout of the third row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise about 0 to 5 degrees of deflection in the γ

direction and the δ

direction.

3. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 2, further comprising a fourth row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, wherein the breakout of the fourth row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise about 0 to 5 degrees of deflection in the γ

direction and the δ

direction.

4. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and the breakout of the suction side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes include lateral cooling hole exit diffusion in the direction away from other rows.

5. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein the turbine showerhead cooling hole layout is disposed on a leading edge of at least one of turbine blade or a turbine vane.

6. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a minimum ligament distance which limiting how close showerhead cooling holes are placed to one another exits between any part of a radially disposed showerhead cooling hole and any part of a neighboring radially disposed showerhead cooling hole.

7. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a diffusion angle of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes from a centerline in the γ

direction is from about 8 to about 15 degrees, wherein a diffusion angle of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes in the δ

direction is between about 0 and about 5 degrees.

8. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a diffusion angle of the breakout of the suction side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes from a centerline in the δ

direction is from about 8 to about 15 degrees, wherein a diffusion angle of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes in the γ

direction is between about 0 and about 5 degrees.

9. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a geometry of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and a geometry of the breakout of the suction side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes are mirror images.

10. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a geometry of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, a geometry of the breakout of the second row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and a geometry of the breakout of the suction side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise a substantially equivalent diffusion in a λ

direction.

11. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a forward edge of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes is offset from a forward edge of the breakout of a radially disposed showerhead cooling hole of an adjacent row.

12. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a trailing edge of the breakout of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes is offset from a trailing edge of the breakout of a radially disposed showerhead cooling hole of an adjacent row.

13. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a forward edge of the breakout of the pressures side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes is substantially in lateral alignment with a forward edge of the breakout of the an aft most row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes.

14. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein a trailing edge of the breakout of the pressures side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes is substantially in lateral alignment with a trailing edge of the breakout of the suction side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes.

15. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 1, wherein at least one of the pressure side row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, the second row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, or the third row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, span a partial length of a full length of at least one of a blade or a vane of a turbine.

16. A gas turbine component having a showerhead cooling hole layout, comprising:

a first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes;

a first interior row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes; and

a second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes,

wherein a breakout of the first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, the first interior row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and the second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, at least partially overlap along a lateral plane, and

wherein a first outer row diffusion angle of the breakout of the first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, a first interior row diffusion angle of the breakout of the first interior row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and a second outer row diffusion angle of the breakout of the second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes are directed away from adjacent rows.

17. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 16, wherein the breakout of the first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, the breakout of the first interior row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and the breakout of the second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes include lateral cooling hole exit diffusion in a direction away from other rows.

18. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 17, wherein a diffusion angle is between about 8 to about 15 degrees.

19. The gas turbine component having the showerhead cooling hole layout of claim 16, wherein a geometry of the breakout of the first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes, the first interior row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and the second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes comprise a substantially equivalent diffusion in a λ

direction.

20. A gas turbine component having a showerhead cooling hole layout, comprising:

a first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes; and

a second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes,

wherein a diffusion angle of a breakout of the first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and a diffusion angle of a breakout of the second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes are directed laterally away from adjacent rows, wherein the diffusion angle of the breakout of the first outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes and the diffusion angle of the breakout of the second outer row of radially disposed showerhead cooling holes are minimized in a lateral direction towards adjacent rows.