This is a U.S. national stage of application No. PCT/EP2016/058181, filed on Apr. 14, 2016. Priority is claimed on German Application No. DE102015004648.9, filed Apr. 15, 2015, the content of which is incorporated here by reference.
The invention is directed to a guide vane adjusting device for a flow machine and a flow machine with a guide vane adjusting device of this type.
Flow machines known from practice have a rotor and a stator. The rotor of a flow machine comprises a shaft and a plurality of blades rotating together with the shaft. The blades form at least one rotor blade ring. The stator of a flow machine comprises a housing and a plurality of stationary guide vanes, these guide vanes forming at least one guide vane ring.
It is known from practice to adjust the guide vanes of a guide vane ring of a flow machine via a guide vane adjusting device such that the guide vanes are rotatable around a guide vane axis extending in radial direction of the rotor.
Guide vane adjusting devices known from practice have a driveshaft to which a drive motor can be coupled that is drivable via the drive motor. In guide vane adjusting devices known from practice, the rotation of the driveshaft via the drive motor is transmitted by a control ring to all of the guide vanes of a guide vane ring such that all of the guide vanes of a guide vane ring are accordingly adjusted or rotated indirectly proceeding from the driveshaft with the intermediary of the control ring. The control ring of guide vane adjusting devices known from practice is rotatable in circumferential direction, but is not displaceable in axial direction or radial direction.
Guide vane adjusting devices known from practice have the drawback that they incur a relatively large amount of friction. Further, they are subject to a high torsional load. Therefore, guide vane adjusting devices known from practice must have correspondingly large dimensions. However, this is disadvantageous in view of the limited installation space available in flow machines.
In view of the foregoing, an objective upon which one aspect of the invention is based is to provide a novel guide vane adjusting device for a flow machine and a flow machine with a guide vane adjusting device of this kind.
The driveshaft is directly coupled with one of the guide vanes of the guide vane ring such that this guide vane of the guide vane ring is directly rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft without an intermediary of a control ring. The driveshaft, or the guide vane that is directly drivable by the driveshaft, is coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner via a transmission lever. The driveshaft is indirectly coupled with the other guide vanes of the guide vane ring such that the other guide vanes of the guide vane ring are indirectly rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft with the intermediary of the control ring. The guide vanes that are indirectly drivable by the driveshaft are coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner via further transmission levers. The control ring is displaceable in circumferential direction and in axial direction such that forces at coupling points between the control ring and the transmission levers, which are coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner, run perpendicular to the transmission levers.
The above-mentioned features combined with one another make it possible to lessen the incidence of friction and torsional loading. One of the guide vanes of a guide vane ring is directly rotatable by the driveshaft without the intermediary of the control ring. The other guide vanes of the guide vane ring are indirectly rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft with the intermediary of the control ring. The guide vane that is directly rotatable or directly coupled with the driveshaft is coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner via a transmission lever. Further, the guide vanes of the guide vane ring, which are indirectly rotatable or indirectly coupled with the driveshaft, are coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner via transmission levers. The control ring is guided so as to be displaceable in circumferential direction and in axial direction and is nondisplaceably guided exclusively in radial direction. In this way, it can ultimately be ensured that forces at the coupling points between the control ring and the transmission levers coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner always run perpendicular to the transmission levers so that bearings of the guide vanes are not loaded by parasitic force components. In this way, a guide vane adjusting device can ultimately be dimensioned smaller so that its installation space requirement is reduced.
According to an advantageous further development of the invention, the driveshaft or the guide vanes that are directly drivable by the driveshaft is/are coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner via a transmission lever comprising multiple parts, a first segment of the multiple-part transmission lever being rigidly coupled with the driveshaft or with the guide vanes that are directly drivable by the driveshaft, and a second segment of the multiple-part transmission lever is coupled in an articulated manner with the control ring. The first segment of the multiple-part transmission lever is preferably coupled in an articulated manner with the second segment of the multiple-part transmission lever so as to form a two-part transmission lever. This allows the driveshaft or the guide vanes that are directly drivable by the driveshaft to be coupled with the control ring in a particularly advantageous manner.
According to a first variant of the invention, the guide vanes that are indirectly drivable by the driveshaft are coupled in an articulated manner with the control ring via one-part, elastically deformable transmission levers. Alternatively, according to a second variant of the invention, the guide vanes that are indirectly drivable by the driveshaft are coupled with the control ring in an articulated manner via multiple-part transmission levers, and a first segment of each of these multiple-part transmission levers is rigidly coupled with the respective guide vane, and a second segment of each of these multiple-part transmission levers is coupled in an articulated manner with the control ring. In the second variant, the first segment of the respective multiple-part transmission lever is then preferably coupled in an articulated manner with the second segment of the respective multiple-part transmission lever to form a two-part transmission lever. These two variants allow an advantageous coupling of the indirectly rotatable guide vanes to the control ring. The first variant with the one-part transmission levers between the control ring and the guide vanes which are indirectly drivable by the driveshaft is simpler with respect to construction than the second variant with the multiple-part transmission levers. However, the second variant with the multiple-part transmission levers is a more compact construction.
Preferred further developments of the invention are indicated in the subclaims and following description. Without limiting generality, embodiment examples of the invention will be described more fully with reference to the drawings. The drawings show:
The present invention is directed to a guide vane adjusting device for a flow machine and to a flow machine with at least one guide vane adjusting device of this type.
The basic construction of a flow machine will be familiar to the person skilled in the relevant art. It is noted here for the sake of completeness that a flow machine includes a rotor with rotor-side guide blades and a stator with stator-side guide vanes.
The guide blades of the rotor form at least one guide blade ring, and the guide blade ring or each guide blade ring rotates together with a shaft of the rotor. The guide vanes of the stator form at least one guide vane ring that is connected to a stator-side housing.
The present invention is directed to a guide vane adjusting device for the guide vanes 21 of a guide vane ring 20 of the above-mentioned type by which the guide vanes 21 can be rotated around guide vane axes 25 of the guide vanes 20, which guide vane axes 25 extend in radial direction of the rotor of the flow machine.
The vane roots 22 of the guide vanes 21 are accordingly rotatably mounted in the housing structure 24, namely such that each of the guide vanes 21 can be rotated around the respective guide vane axis 25 extending in radial direction.
The guide vane adjusting device for the rotation of the guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20 around their guide vane axes 25 extending in radial direction comprises a driveshaft 26 that can be coupled to a drive motor, not shown, and which is drivable proceeding from the drive motor.
The driveshaft 26 is directly coupled to one of the guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20, namely, such that this guide vane 21 of the guide vane ring 20 is directly rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft 26.
The driveshaft 26 preferably extends coaxial to the vane pin 22 of this directly rotatable guide vane 21 and coaxial to the vane axis 25 of this directly rotatable guide vane 21.
The guide vane adjusting device further comprises a control ring 27. The driveshaft 26, or the guide vane 21 that can be directly driven by the driveshaft 26, is coupled with the control ring 27 in an articulated manner via a transmission lever 28.
The driveshaft 26 is indirectly coupled with the other guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20 via the control ring 27 such that the rest of the guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20 are indirectly rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft 26, namely, with the intermediary of the control ring 27 that transmits the rotation of the driveshaft 26 to the rest of the guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20. These guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20 which are indirectly drivable and rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft 26 are coupled with the control ring 27 in an articulated manner via further transmission levers 29.
The control ring 27 to which the guide vanes 21 that are directly adjustable proceeding from the driveshaft 26 are connected via the transmission lever 28 on the one hand and to which the guide vanes 21 that are indirectly rotatable proceeding from the driveshaft 26 are connected via the transmission levers 29 on the other hand is displaceable in circumferential direction U and in axial direction A. Owing to this displaceability of the control ring 27 in circumferential direction U and in axial direction A and owing to the articulated connection of the transmission levers 28 and 29 to the control ring 27, forces acting during the rotation of the guide vanes 21 at the coupling points between the control ring 27 and the transmission levers 28, 29 which are coupled in an articulated manner with the control ring 27 always run perpendicular to the transmission levers 27, 28.
As a result of the above-mentioned features of the guide vane adjusting device, friction at the latter is reduced, and parasitic force components that act on the transmission levers in the prior art are prevented. As a result, bearings 30 of the guide vanes via which the latter are rotatably mounted in the housing structure 24 are less highly loaded. Referring to
The driveshaft 26, or the guide vane 21, particularly the vane pin 22 thereof, which is directly drivable by the driveshaft, is coupled with the control ring 27 in an articulated manner via a multiple-part transmission lever 28. This multiple-part transmission lever 28 has at least one first segment 31 rigidly coupled with the driveshaft 26 or with the guide vane 21, which is directly drivable by the driveshaft 26, and a second segment 32 coupled with the control ring 27 in an articulated manner. This transmission lever 28, which serves to couple the directly rotatable guide vane 21 and driveshaft 26, respectively, to the control ring 27, is preferably formed as a two-part transmission lever, in which case the first segment 31 and the second segment 32 of the same are coupled in an articulated manner. In the preferred embodiment example shown here, two spherical joint bearings 33 are formed between the first segment 31 of the two-part transmission lever 28 and the second segment 32 of the latter. Further, another spherical joint bearing 34 is formed between the second segment 32 of this transmission lever 28 and the control ring 27.
In the embodiment examples of the guide vane adjusting device shown in
As has already been stated, the control ring 27 is displaceable in circumferential direction and axial direction relative to the housing structure 24 and is guided and fixed only in radial direction.
As has already been stated, all of the transmission levers 28, 29 in the embodiment examples shown in
The embodiment example in
While segments 31 and 32 of the transmission lever 28 are positioned substantially axially one behind the other in the embodiment example in
A further difference between the embodiment example of
All of the embodiment examples have in common that a guide vane 21 of the guide vane ring 20 is drivable directly proceeding from a driveshaft 26. The driveshaft 26 or the directly driven guide vane 21 is coupled with a control ring 27. This coupling is preferably effected via a two-part swiveling lever 28 having preferably three spherical joint bearings. All of the rest of the guide vanes 21 of the guide vane ring 20 are indirectly drivable proceeding from the driveshaft 26 via the control ring 27, these guide vanes 21 being coupled with the control ring 27 via further transmission levers 29. Control ring 27 is radially supported coaxial to the rotational axis of a rotor, not shown, and can carry out an axial linear movement and a rotational movement in circumferential direction so as to be superimposed. The transmission levers 29 that serve to couple the indirectly adjustable guide vanes with the control ring 27 can be constructed of multiple parts or, alternatively, of one part just like the transmission lever 28 serving to connect the directly adjustable guide vane 21 to the control ring 27. While the use of spherical joint bearings in the region of the transmission levers 28, 29 is preferred, hinge joints can also be used.
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With the guide vane adjusting device according to the invention, it is possible to adjust guide vanes of a guide vane ring in an optimal manner, specifically while ensuring a low total friction and a low torsional loading while preventing parasitic forces. The guide vane adjusting device of the present invention provides efficient kinematics for the displacement of the guide vanes of a guide vane ring with low loading of component parts so that high suction pressures can be used in a flow machine that utilizes the guide vane adjusting device.
Thus, while there have shown and described and pointed out fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to a preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood that various omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details of the devices illustrated, and in their operation, may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, it is expressly intended that all combinations of those elements and/or method steps which perform substantially the same function in substantially the same way to achieve the same results are within the scope of the invention. Moreover, it should be recognized that structures and/or elements and/or method steps shown and/or described in connection with any disclosed form or embodiment of the invention may be incorporated in any other disclosed or described or suggested form or embodiment as a general matter of design choice. It is the intention, therefore, to be limited only as indicated by the scope of the claims appended hereto.
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