Heat transfer enhancement of dynamoelectric machine rotors

• US 7,791,230 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2008
• Issued: 09/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: de Bock, Hendrik P. J., Gerstler, William D., Suguitan, Norman J., Kaminski, Christopher A., Jarczynski, Emil D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Leung; Quyen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gonzalez Quinones; Jose A
• Application Number:
  US12/255,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20100096937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 310/61, 310/55, 310/216.069
• US Class Current: 310/55
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/24 with channels or ducts for cooling medium between the conductors

Abstract

A rotor is provided for a dynamoelectric machine having one or more windings. The windings have one or more turns, and the turns have one or more outlet ducts that are located near a chimney. When the outlet ducts are stacked one on top of another, they form substantially radially oriented passages. The heat transfer performance of a portion of the rotor can be improved by locating two or more circumferentially spaced radial ducts near the chimney. A chimney can also be formed of one or more chimney slots defined in at least a portion of the turns, where one or more chimney slots extend in a substantially slanted direction to a radial direction of the rotor. A transition region of the rotor can also include one or more diagonal flow channels, which discharge into one or more chimneys.

Claims

1. A rotor for a dynamoelectric machine having one or more windings, said windings comprised of one or more turns, said turns having one or more outlet ducts located near a chimney, which when stacked one on top of another form substantially radially oriented passages, wherein the heat transfer performance of a portion of said rotor can be improved by locating two or more circumferentially spaced and adjacent radial ducts near said chimney, where flow into the two or more circumferentially spaced and adjacent radial ducts is fed by a common subslot and flow through the two or more circumferentially spaced and adjacent radial ducts is in the same direction;

wherein, the flow through the two or more circumferentially spaced and adjacent radial ducts draws heat away from the chimney, and wherein the two or more circumferentially spaced and adjacent radial ducts and chimney are located in at least one of the slot end region and end winding region of the rotor.

2. A cooling gas ventilation chimney for an end region of a dynamoelectric machine having a rotor, a plurality of radial slots provided in said rotor, and a plurality of coils respectively seated in said plurality of radial slots, a plurality of radially stacked turns comprising a coil, said ventilation chimney comprising:

one or more chimney slots defined in at least a portion of said radially stacked turns, said one or more chimney slots extending in a substantially slanted direction to a radial direction of said rotor, the one or more chimney slots forming an exhaust manifold where an input to the exhaust manifold is a plurality of axially oriented cooling passages;

one or more radial ducts arranged to be slanted with respect to the radial direction of the rotor, the one or more radial ducts located near the ventilation chimney and configured to have a flow that passes in substantially the same direction as a flow passing through the ventilation chimney, the one or more radial ducts configured to draw heat away from the ventilation chimney.

3. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 2, wherein an axial length and/or width of chimney slots positioned at a radially inward location have a smaller value than an axial length and/or width of chimney slots positioned at radially outward locations.

4. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 3, wherein the axial length and/or width, of at least one radially outward chimney slot is smaller than at least one radially inward chimney slot.

5. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 2, wherein a cross-sectional area of chimney slots positioned at a radially inward location have a smaller value than a cross-sectional area of chimney slots positioned at radially outward locations.

6. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 5, wherein the cross-sectional area, of at least one radially outward chimney slot is smaller than at least one radially inward chimney slot.

7. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 2, wherein an axial length and/or width of chimney slots positioned at a radially inward location have a smaller value than an axial length and/or width of chimney slots positioned at radially outward locations.

8. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 7, wherein the axial length and or width, of at least one radially outward chimney slot is smaller than at least one radially inward chimney slot.

9. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 2, wherein a cross-sectional area of chimney slots positioned at a radially inward location have a smaller value than an cross-sectional area of chimney slots positioned at radially outward locations.

10. The cooling gas ventilation chimney according to claim 9, wherein the cross-sectional area, of at least one radially outward chimney slot is smaller than at least one radially inward chimney slot.

11. A dynamoelectric machine having a rotor, said rotor comprising a transition region located between a diagonal flow region and an end region, a plurality of radial slots provided in said rotor, and a plurality of coils respectively seated in said plurality of radial slots, a plurality of radially stacked turns comprising a coil, said transition region comprising:

one or more diagonal flow channels, said one or more diagonal flow channels discharging directly into one or more substantially radial chimneys, the radial chimneys located in the end region of the rotor and configured to exhaust directly through a creepage block.

12. The dynamo electric machine according to claim 11, wherein a first group of said one or more diagonal flow channels discharge into a first substantially radial chimney, and a second group of said one or more diagonal flow channels discharge into a second substantially radial chimney.

13. The dynamoelectric machine according to claim 11, wherein said one or more substantially radial chimneys are configured to extend in a slanted orientation, in either a linear or non-linear fashion, with respect to a radial direction.