Component of a flow machine

• US 6,595,750 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2001
• Issued: 07/22/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ansaldo Energia IP UK Limited (Ansaldo Energia SPA)
• Original Assignee: ALSTOM Power Inc. (General Electric Company)
• Inventors: Parneix, Sacha, Wolfersdorf, Jens von, Schnieder, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Ninh H.
• Application Number:
  US10/013,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20020176776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 415/115, 416/97.R
• US Class Current: 416/97.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 25/12 Cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/187 Convection cooling

Abstract

The present invention relates to a component of a flow machine, particularly a turbine blade, which has a cooling channel (9, 10) through which cooling medium can flow, with at least one deflection (5) formed by the wall (11, 12) of the cooling channel, by means of which deflection the flow of the cooling medium from a first channel section (9) is deflected into a second channel section (10) situated downstream. At least one flow guiding element (8) is arranged in the cooling channel in the region of the deflection, and divides the cooling channel into an inner (13) and an outer (14) flow channel. In the present component, the inner flow channel (13) has a constriction in the flow cross section. By the proposed configuration of the cooling channel deflection, the pressure loss brought about by the deflection is minimized and simultaneously a distinctly more homogeneous heat transfer is attained to the cooling medium, without local temperature peaks.

Claims

1. A component of a flow machine, comprising:

a cooling channel through which cooling medium can flow, said cooling channel having a wall and at least one deflection being formed by the wall of the cooling channel;

said cooling channel having a first channel section and a downstream second channel section, and the flow of the cooling medium being deflected from the first channel section into the downstream second channel section by the at least one deflection;

at least one flow guiding element being arranged in the cooling channel in the region of the deflection, the at least one flow guiding element dividing the cooling channel in the deflection into an inner and an outer flow channel, at least one outlet bore being formed in the outer flow channel in the wall of the cooling channel and arranged in the corner regions of the deflection, and a small portion of the cooling medium can emerge from the cooling channel through the at least one outlet bore; and

the inner flow channel having a constriction in a flow cross section of the inner flow channel.

2. The component according to claim 1, wherein the constriction is formed by at least one of the shaping or contouring of the at least one flow guiding element and the wall of the cooling channel.

3. The component according to claim 2, wherein the first and second channel sections respectively are formed on either side of a partition that is formed as a portion of the wall of the cooling channel, the thickness of the partition increasing in the region of the deflection, thereby forming the constriction of the flow cross section in the inner flow channel.

4. The component according to claim 1, wherein the at least one flow guiding element extends into the second channel section.

5. The component according to claim 4, wherein the at least one flow guiding element extends over a distance into the second channel section, said distance being approximately equal to the distance between the at least one flow guiding element and the wall of the cooling channel opposite from the at least one flow guiding element in the inner flow channel at the transition of the first or second channel section to the deflection.

6. The component according to claim 1, wherein the at least one flow guiding element is arranged in the cooling channel such that about 25-45% of the mass flow of cooling medium arriving via the first channel section flows through the inner flow channel.

7. The component according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least one flow guiding element and the wall of the cooling channel are made to constrict the flow cross section in the inner flow channel by about 5-20%.

8. The component according to claim 1, wherein the at least one outlet bore extends at least approximately in the direction of local flow lines of the cooling medium.

9. The component according to claim 1, wherein the at least one outlet bore is dimensioned to enable a dust discharge therethrough from the cooling medium.

10. The component according to claim 1, wherein the at least one outlet bore is arranged in low throughflow eddy areas of the cooling channel, and the at least one outlet bore ensures the maintenance of a convective cooling medium throughflow in the low throughflow eddy areas.

11. The component according to claim 1, wherein the at least one flow guiding element has a suitable configuration to prevent dust collection on one side of the at least one flow guiding element.