MIXED FLOW TURBINE

• US 20090290980A1
• Filed: 02/10/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Higashimori, Hirotaka
• Granted Patent: US 8,128,356 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 415/205
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/148 by means of rotatable members, e.g. butterfly valves
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 9/026 Scrolls for radial machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/025 Multiple scrolls or multiple gas passages guiding the gas to the pump drive
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/22 by varying cross-section of exhaust passages or air passages , e.g. by throttling turbine inlets or outlets or by varying effective number of guide conduits F02B37/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 6/12 Turbochargers, i.e. plants for augmenting mechanical power output of internal-combustion piston engines by increase of charge pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/40 in turbochargers
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/711 convex
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

To provide a mixed flow turbine in which supply of working fluid is designed to be supplied at a hub and a shroud, and the shape of the inlet-side edges of the blades is made to work effectively, thereby reducing incidence loss. A mixed flow turbine including blades whose leading edges are formed in a convex shape toward the upstream side; and a scroll that is a space formed upstream of the blades by a casing having a shroud that covers the radially external edges of the blades, the space being for supplying working fluid toward the leading edges of the blades, wherein the scroll is separated by a scroll partition wall into a shroud-side space and a hub-side space; and a shroud-side partition wall surface and a hub-side partition wall surface at the rear edge side of the scroll partition wall form a shroud-side inlet channel in which the working fluid flows substantially radially and a hub-side inlet channel in which the working fluid flows substantially in the same direction as the inclination direction of the hub side at the inlet of the blades between the partition wall surfaces and portions facing the partition wall surfaces, respectively.

Claims

1. A mixed flow turbine comprising:

mixed flow turbine moving blades whose outline of inlet-side edges located at an upstream side is formed in a convex shape toward the upstream side; and

a scroll that is a space formed upstream of the mixed flow turbine moving blades by a casing having a shroud that covers the radially external edges of the mixed flow turbine moving blades, the space being for supplying working fluid toward the inlet-side edges of the mixed flow turbine moving blades,

wherein the scroll is separated by a scroll partition wall into a shroud-side space and a hub-side space; and

wherein a shroud-side partition wall surface and a hub-side partition wall surface at the rear edge side of the scroll partition wall form a shroud-side inlet channel in which the working fluid flows substantially radially and a hub-side inlet channel in which the working fluid flows substantially in the same direction as the inclination direction of a hub circumferential surface at the inlet of the mixed flow turbine moving blades between the partition wall surfaces and portions facing the partition wall surfaces, respectively.

2. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 1, wherein a blade-shaped nozzle whose blade surfaces are formed substantially parallel to a rotation axis is provided between the scroll partition wall and the mixed flow turbine moving blades.

3. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 1, wherein the hub-side inlet channel is provided with a hub-side blade-shaped nozzle whose blade surfaces are formed substantially parallel to a rotation axis.

4. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 3, wherein the hub-side blade-shaped nozzle is provide with a guide plate, which is a substantially extended portion of the hub-side blade-shaped nozzle, extended to a position close to the inlet-side edges of the mixed flow turbine moving blades.

5. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 3, wherein a shroud-side blade-shaped nozzle whose blade surfaces are formed substantially parallel to the rotation axis is provided at the downstream portion of the shroud-side inlet channel, and the throat width of the shroud-side blade-shaped nozzle is set larger than the throat width of the hub-side blade-shaped nozzle.

6. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 4, wherein a shroud-side blade-shaped nozzle whose blade surfaces are formed substantially parallel to the rotation axis is provided at the downstream portion of the shroud-side inlet channel, and the throat width of the shroud-side blade-shaped nozzle is set larger than the throat width of the hub-side blade-shaped nozzle.

7. The mixed flow turbine according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein

the inlet of the scroll is provided with an inlet partition wall that separates the inlet into a shroud-side flow channel communicating with the shroud-side space and a hub-side flow channel communicating with the hub-side space;

the inlet partition wall is mounted at a position at which the cross-sectional area of the shroud-side flow channel is larger than the cross-sectional area of the hub-side flow channel; and

the upstream side of the inlet partition wall is provided with a control member that allows at least the shroud-side flow channel to be fully closed and controls the working-fluid inflow ratio of the shroud-side flow channel to the hub-side flow channel.

8. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 7, wherein the control member is provided with a plate member that can pivot about a axial center which is mounted to the upstream end of the inlet partition wall.

9. The mixed flow turbine according to claim 8, wherein the height, along the axial center, of the flow-channel cross section of the inlet of the scroll at which at least the plate member pivots is set substantially constant, and the length, along the axial center, of the plate member is set substantially the same as the height.