The present disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine and more particularly to a centrifugal compressor.
Centrifugal compressors have a wide variety of industrial and aerospace applications, including gas turbine engines, fluid pumps and air compressors. Oftentimes, a bleed flow is sourced from the centrifugal compressor for auxiliary use. Such a bleed flow may be on the order of 10% which has been heretofore unavailable from a single source point as a bleed flow upstream of the impeller may be too low a pressure for its intended use. A mix of bleed sources—generally sourced upstream and downstream of the impeller—have been effectively utilized but may require a relatively more complicated bleed flow control arrangement.
An impeller according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes a plurality of vanes formed around a hub, each of the plurality of vanes defines a flow stream split for removal of flow resulting in an offset in the casing between a leading edge and a trailing edge.
A centrifugal compressor assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes an impeller with a plurality of vanes formed around a hub which defines an axis of rotation, each of the plurality of vanes defines a flow stream split for removal of flow resulting in an offset in the casing between a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge defines an axial intake and the trailing edge defines a radial exit. An impeller shroud defines a flow splitter which interfaces with the offset in the plurality of impeller vanes to define a mid-impeller bleed location.
A method of providing a bleed flow from a centrifugal compressor according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes interfacing a flow splitter with an offset in a plurality of impeller vanes to define a mid-impeller bleed.
Various features will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of the disclosed non-limiting embodiment. The drawings that accompany the detailed description can be briefly described as follows:
With reference to
The impeller vanes 40 direct the fluid flow from a generally axial inlet 42 to a generally radial exit 44 to force the flow radially outward and thereby imparts work onto the fluid flow. Fluid enters the impeller 30 at the axial inlet 42 defined by the impeller vanes leading edges 46 and is directed toward an impeller trailing edge 48 which are generally transverse to the leading edges 46. The fluid path through the impeller vane 40 and into the diffuser 32 is defined by the stationary impeller shroud 36 and a curved outer surface 50 of the impeller hub portion 38 between the axial inlet 42 and the radial exit 44.
The stationary impeller shroud 36 includes a flow splitter 52 which interfaces with an offset 54 in the impeller vanes 40 at a location between the leading edge 46 and the trailing edge 48 of the impeller vanes 40 on an axial forward surface 56. The flow splitter 52 closely follows the shape of a radial forward surface 56A downstream of the offset 54. The offset 54 may be a stepped surface at which the impeller vanes steps down to correspond with the flow splitter 52 to define a mid-impeller bleed path 58 which splits from the impeller primary flow to the radial exit 44 (
The flow splitter 52 facilitates an efficient/low-loss bleed recovery system that captures a desired dynamic head imparted into the stream in the forward part of the impeller; the radial outward portion of the impeller is not subjected to the additional detrimental effects of diffusion within the impeller resulting from the removal of the bleed flow; no redesign of the impeller is necessary as only impeller tip machining is changed to accommodate the flow splitter 52 and bleed passage; and the flow splitter lip may be aerodynamically designed with an O give shape to accommodate a significant range of bleed turndown without lip separation to provide, for example, from 1% to 10% bleed flow as compared to a conventional bleed path B (RELATED ART;
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It should be understood that like reference numerals identify corresponding or similar elements throughout the several drawings. It should also be understood that although a particular component arrangement is disclosed in the illustrated embodiment, other arrangements will benefit herefrom.
Although particular step sequences are shown, described, and claimed, it should be understood that steps may be performed in any order, separated or combined unless otherwise indicated and will still benefit from the present disclosure.
The foregoing description is exemplary rather than defined by the limitations within. Various non-limiting embodiments are disclosed herein, however, one of ordinary skill in the art would recognize that various modifications and variations in light of the above teachings will fall within the scope of the appended claims. It is therefore to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims, the disclosure may be practiced other than as specifically described. For that reason the appended claims should be studied to determine true scope and content.
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