Impingement cooled structure

• US 8,137,056 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2007
• Issued: 03/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IHI Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• Original Assignee: IHI Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Shu, Ohkita, Youji, Fukuyama, Yoshitaka, Yamane, Takashi, Matsushita, Masahiro, Yoshida, Toyoaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thao
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ida, Geoffrey
• Application Number:
  US12/281,369
• Publication Number:
  US 20090035125A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,849 Days
• Field of Search: 415/116, 415/173.1, 415/173.2, 415/175
• US Class Current: 415/116
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 11/08 for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator specially-shaped blade tips therefor F01D5/20
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 11/24 by selectively cooling-heating stator or rotor components
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 25/246 Fastening of diaphragms or stator-rings
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/11 Shroud seal segments
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/201 by impingement of a fluid
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/202 by film cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/2212 by creating turbulence
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/2214 by increasing the heat transfer surface

Abstract

An impingement cooled structure includes a plurality of shroud members disposed in a circumferential direction to constitute a ring-shaped shroud surrounding a hot gas stream, and a shroud cover mounted on radial outside faces of the shroud members to form a cavity therebetween. The shroud cover has a first impingement cooling hole which communicates with the cavity and allows cooling air to be jetted to an inside thereof so as to cool an inner surface of the cavity by impingement. The shroud members each has a hole fin. The hole fin divides the cavity into a plurality of sub-cavities. Further, the hole fin has a second impingement cooling hole which allows the cooling air having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole to be jetted obliquely toward a bottom surface of the sub-cavity adjacent thereto.

Claims

1. An impingement cooled structure comprising:

(a) a plurality of shroud members disposed in a circumferential direction to constitute a ring-shaped shroud surrounding a hot gas stream; and

(b) a shroud cover mounted on radial outside faces of the plurality of shroud members to form a cavity therebetween,

wherein the shroud cover has a first impingement cooling hole formed therein that communicates with the cavity and allows cooling air to be jetted toward a bottom surface of the cavity so as to cool the bottom surface of the cavity by impingement,

wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members has a hole fin, wherein the hole fin extends in a radial outward direction from the bottom surface of the cavity toward an inner surface of the shroud cover, and

the hole fin divides the cavity in the hot gas stream into a first plurality of sub-cavities, and

the hole fin has a second impingement cooling hole formed obliquely relative to a bottom surface of a first sub-cavity so that the second impingement cooling hole allows the cooling air having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole to be jetted obliquely toward the bottom surface of the first sub-cavity adjacent thereto.

2. An impingement cooled structure according to claim 1, wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members comprises:

i. an inner surface extending along the hot gas stream to be directly exposed to the hot gas stream;

ii. an outer surface positioned at an outside of the inner surface to constitute a portion of the bottom surface of the cavity;

iii. an upstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from an upstream side of the hot gas stream so as to be fixed to a fixing portion; and

iv. a downstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from a downstream side of the hot gas stream so as to be fixed to the fixing portion,

wherein the upstream flange and the downstream flange are disposed to provide a cooling air chamber outside the shroud cover, and

wherein the hole fin extends in the radial outward direction towards the inner surface of the shroud cover from the outer surface constituting the bottom surface of the cavity in order to divide the cavity into the first plurality of sub-cavities adjacent to each other along the hot gas stream.

3. An impingement cooled structure according to claim 2, wherein the upstream flange, or the downstream flange, or the upstream flange and the downstream flange, has a third impingement cooling hole formed therein that allows the cooling air to be jetted toward an outer surface thereof from the cavity.

4. An impingement cooled structure according to claim 2, wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members has a film cooling hole formed therein that allows the cooling air to be jetted toward an inner surface of the shroud member from the cavity.

5. An impingement cooled structure according to claim 1, further comprising:

(c) a turbulence promoter disposed on the bottom surface of the cavity; and

(d) a projection or a pin disposed on the bottom surface of the cavity, wherein the turbulence promoter promotes turbulence, and the projection or the pin increases a heat transfer area.

6. An impingement cooled structure according to claim 1, wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members has a non-hole fin that divides the cavity into a second plurality of sub-cavities and divides a first flow path of the cooling air into two or more second flow paths.

7. An impingement cooled structure comprising:

(a) a plurality of shroud members disposed in a circumferential direction to constitute a ring-shaped shroud surrounding a hot gas stream; and

(b) a shroud cover mounted on radial outside faces of the plurality of shroud members to form a cavity therebetween,

wherein the shroud cover has a first impingement cooling hole formed therein that communicates with the cavity and allows cooling air to be jetted toward a bottom surface of the cavity so as to cool the bottom surface of the cavity by impingement,

wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members has a hole fin, wherein the hole fin extends in a radial outward direction from the bottom surface of the cavity toward an inner surface of the shroud cover, and the hole fin divides the cavity in the hot gas stream into a first plurality of sub-cavities, and the hole fin has a second impingement cooling hole formed obliquely relative to a bottom surface of a first sub-cavity so that the second impingement cooling hole allows the cooling air having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole to be jetted obliquely toward the bottom surface of the first sub-cavity adjacent thereto,

wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members comprises

i. an inner surface extending along the hot gas stream to be directly exposed to the hot gas stream;

ii. an outer surface positioned at an outside of the inner surface to constitute a portion of the bottom surface of the cavity;

iii. an upstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from an upstream side of the hot gas stream so as to be fixed to a fixing portion; and

iv. a downstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from a downstream side of the hot gas stream so as to be fixed to the fixing portion,

wherein the upstream flange and the downstream flange are disposed to provide a cooling air chamber outside the shroud cover,

wherein the hole fin extends in the radial outward direction towards the inner surface of the shroud cover from the outer surface constituting the bottom surface of the cavity in order to divide the cavity into the first plurality of sub-cavities adjacent to each other along the hot gas stream, and

wherein a gap is formed between a radial outward end of the hole fin and the inner surface of the shroud cover, wherein a height Δ

h of the gap is 0.2 or less times as high as a height h of the hole fin.

8. An impingement cooled structure comprising:

(a) a plurality of shroud members disposed in a circumferential direction to constitute a ring-shaped shroud surrounding a hot gas stream; and

(b) a shroud cover mounted on radial outside faces of the plurality of shroud members to form a cavity therebetween,

wherein the shroud cover has a first impingement cooling hole formed therein that communicates with the cavity and allows cooling air to be jetted toward a bottom surface of the cavity so as to cool the bottom surface of the cavity by impingement,

wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members has a hole fin, wherein the hole fin extends in a radial outward direction from the bottom surface of the cavity toward an inner surface of the shroud cover, and the hole fin divides the cavity in the hot gas stream into a first plurality of sub-cavities, and the hole fin has a second impingement cooling hole formed obliquely relative to a bottom surface of a first sub-cavity so that the second impingement cooling hole allows the cooling air having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole to be jetted obliquely toward the bottom surface of the first sub-cavity adjacent thereto,

wherein each shroud member of the plurality of shroud members comprises

i. an inner surface extending along the hot gas stream to be directly exposed to the hot gas stream;

ii. an outer surface positioned at an outside of the inner surface to constitute a portion of the bottom surface of the cavity;

iii. an upstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from an upstream side of the hot gas stream so as to be fixed to a fixing portion; and

iv. a downstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from a downstream side of the hot gas stream so as to be fixed to the fixing portion,

wherein the upstream flange and the downstream flange are disposed to provide a cooling air chamber outside the shroud cover,

wherein the hole fin extends in the radial outward direction towards the inner surface of the shroud cover from the outer surface constituting the bottom surface of the cavity in order to divide the cavity into the first plurality of sub-cavities adjacent to each other along the hot gas stream, and

wherein an angle of the second impingement cooling hole to a bottom surface of the first sub-cavity is 45°

or less, and an impingement height e is 0.26 or less times as long as a length L of the first sub-cavity in a flow path direction.