Cooling-air bore

• US 6,183,199 B1
• Filed: 03/17/1999
• Issued: 02/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ansaldo Energia IP UK Limited (Ansaldo Energia SPA)
• Original Assignee: ABB Research Ltd. (ABB Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wilfert, Günter, Beeck, Alexander, Bonhoff, Bernhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Lopez, F. Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, NINH H
• Application Number:
  US09/271,267
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 415/115, 415/116, 416/97.R, 416/97.A, 416/96.R
• US Class Current: 416/97.00R
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 2700/06 Cooling passages of turbine components, e.g. unblocking or preventing blocking of cooling passages of turbine components
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/186 Film cooling F01D5/187 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/16 parabolic

Abstract

A cooling wall comprises an outer surface, which is exposed to a hot-gas flow, an inner surface, and at least one film-cooling hole within the wall, which film-cooling hole has a diffuser section and an outlet at the outer surface. The diffuser section has first and second internal surfaces, the intersection edge between the first internal surface and the outer surface forming an upstream edge of the outlet, and the intersection edge between the second internal surface and the outer surface forming a downstream edge of the outlet. The diffuser section has side surfaces, which faces one another, connect the first and second internal surfaces and diverge from one another toward the outlet of the diffuser section. The first internal surface of the diffuser section is rounded toward the axis of the film-cooling hole.

Claims

1. A cooled wall having an outer surface, which is exposed to a hot-gas flow, which flows along the outer surface (12) in the downstream direction, an inner surface, and at least one film-cooling hole has a diffuser section and an outlet at the outer surface, the axis of the film-cooling hole being directed in such a way that a cooling-medium flow from the outlet is directed in such a way that it has a velocity component in the downstream direction, the diffuser section having a first internal surface, which is rounded in the form of at least two compound curves, at a distance from a second internal surface, the first and second internal surfaces intersecting the outer surface of the wall, and the intersection edge between the first internal surface and the outer surface forming an upstream edge of the outlet, and the intersection edge between the second internal surface and the outer surface forming a downstream edge of the outlet, the diffuser section having side surface, which face one another, connect the first and second internal surfaces and diverge from one another toward the outlet of the diffuse section, wherein the first internal surface of the diffuser section is rounded toward the axis of the film-cooling hole.

2. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which the first internal surface is rounded in an elliptical manner.

3. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which the first internal surface (40) is rounded parabolically.

4. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which the first internal surface (40) merges in a smooth curve into the side surfaces (44, 46).

5. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which the first and second internal surfaces (40, 42) diverge from one another toward the outlet (36) of the diffuser section (24) at an angle of less than 30°

, preferably at an angle of between 5° and

20°

.

6. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which at least one and preferably both of the side surfaces (44, 46) diverge from the axis (26) of the film-cooling hole (20) at an angle of greater than 5°

, preferably greater than 10°

.

7. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which the axis (26) of each film-cooling hole (20) encloses with the outer surface (12) an angle of between 5°

and 50°

, preferably between 15° and

40°

, particularly preferably between 25° and

35°

.

8. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which each film-cooling hole (20) has a feed section (22), the feed section (22) having an inlet (30) at the inner surface (14), and the outlet (32) of the feed section (22) forming the inlet (34) of the diffuser section (24).

9. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 8, in which the feed section (22) has a constant cross section, preferably a constant elliptical cross section, between its inlet (30) and its outlet (32).

10. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 1, in which the wall (10) is the outer wall of a hollow-profile body, in particular of a gas-turbine blade.

11. A cooled wall having an outer surface, which is exposed to a hot-gas flow, which flows along the outer surface in the downstream direction, an inner surface, and at least one film-cooling hole has a diffuser section and an outlet at the outer surface, the axis of the film-cooling hole being directed in such a way that a cooling-medium flow from the outlet is directed in such a way that it has a velocity component in the downstream direction, the diffuser section having a first internal surface at a distance from a second internal surface, the second internal surface being essentially plane and merging in a smooth curve into the side surfaces, the first and second internal surfaces intersecting the outer surface of the wall, and the intersection edge between the first internal surface and the outer surface forming an upstream edge of the outlet, and the intersection edge between the second internal surface and the outer surface forming a downstream edge of the outlet, the side surfaces of the diffuser section, which face one another, connect the first and second internal surfaces and diverge from one another toward the outlet of the diffuse section, wherein the first internal surface of the diffuser section is rounded toward the axis of the film-cooling hole which the second internal surface is essentially plane.

12. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the second internal surface merges in a smooth curve into the surfaces.

13. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the first internal surface is rounded in an elliptical manner.

14. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the first internal surface is rounded parabolically.

15. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the first internal surface merges in a smooth curve into the side surfaces.

16. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the first and second internal surface diverge from one another toward the outlet of the diffuser section at an angle of less than 30°

.

17. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which at least one and preferably both of the side surfaces diverge form the axis of the film-cooling hole at an angle of greater than 5°

.

18. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the axis of each film-cooling hole encloses with the outer surface an angle of between 5°

and 50°

.

19. The cooled was as claimed in claim 11, in which each film-cooling hole has a feed section, the feed section having an inlet at the inner surface, and the outlet of the feed section forming the inlet of the difusser section.

20. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 19, in which the feed section has a constant cross section, preferably a constant elliptical cross section, between its inlet and its outlet.

21. The cooled wall as claimed in claim 11, in which the wall is the outer wall of a hollow-profile body, in particular of a gas-turbine blade.