1. Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an impingement cooled structure that cools hot walls of a turbine shroud and a turbine end wall.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, in order to improve thermal efficiency, an increase in the temperature of a gas turbine has been promoted. In this case, the turbine inlet temperature reaches about 1200° C. to 1700° C. Under such high temperatures, metal turbine components need to be cooled so as not to exceed the service temperature limit of the materials thereof.
An example of such turbine components includes a turbine shroud 31 shown in
Hence, the inner surfaces of the turbine shrouds 31 are always exposed to hot gas. Likewise, the inner surface of a turbine end wall is also exposed to hot gas.
In
In order to cool hot walls of the aforementioned turbine shrouds and turbine end wall, for example, as shown in
However, cooling air used in such a cooled structure is usually high pressure air compressed by a compressor. Accordingly, there is a problem that the amount of the used cooling air directly affects engine performance.
In view of this, in order to reduce the amount of used cooling air, there is proposed a configuration in which cooling air which is once used for impingement cooling is used again for impingement cooling (e.g., Patent Documents 1 and 2).
[Patent Document 1]
Specification of U.S. Pat. No. 4,526,226, “MULTIPLE-IMPINGEMENT COOLED STRUCTURE”
[Patent Document 2]
Specification of U.S. Pat. No. 6,779,597, “MULTIPLE IMPINGEMENT COOLED STRUCTURE”
As shown in
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The impingement cooled structures of Patent Documents 1 and 2, however, need to have a plurality of air chambers (cavities) which are stacked in the radial outward direction on top of each other, and thus, have a problem of an overall thickness greater than that of conventional shrouds. In addition, these impingement cooled structures are complex as compared with shrouds prior to Patent Documents 1 and 2, causing a problem of an increase in manufacturing cost.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention was made. Specifically, an object of the present invention is, therefore, to provide an impingement cooled structure capable of reducing the amount of cooling air which cools hot walls of a turbine shroud and a turbine end wall, with a structure as simple as a structure of shrouds prior to Patent Documents 1 and 2.
According to the present invention, there is provided an impingement cooled structure comprising: 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.
Preferably, the shroud members each has: an inner surface extending along the hot gas stream to be directly exposed to the hot gas stream; an outer surface positioned at an outside of the inner surface to constitute a bottom surface of the cavity; an upstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from an upstream side of the hot gas stream to be fixed to a fixing portion; and a downstream flange extending in a radial outward direction from a downstream side of the hot gas stream to be fixed to the fixing portion. The upstream flange and the downstream flange are provided for forming a cooling air chamber outside the shroud cover. The hole fin extends in a radial outward direction to an inner surface of the shroud cover from the outer surface constituting the bottom surface of the cavity to divide the cavity into the plurality of sub-cavities adjacent to each other along the hot gas stream.
The upstream flange and/or the downstream flange may have a third impingement cooling hole which allows the cooling air to be jetted toward an outer surface of the flange from the cavity.
The shroud members each may have a film cooling hole which allows the cooling air to be jetted toward the inner surface of the shroud member from the cavity.
The impingement cooled structure may comprise a turbulence promoter, a projection or a pin on the bottom surface of the cavity. The turbulence promoter promotes turbulence, and the projection or the pin increases a heat transfer area.
The shroud members each may have a non-hole fin which divides the cavity into a plurality of sub-cavities and divides a flow path of the cooling air into two or more flow paths.
A gap may be formed between a radial outward end of the hole fin and the inner surface of the shroud cover such that a height Δh of the gap is 0.2 or less times as high as a height h of the hole fin.
Preferably, an angle of the second impingement cooling hole to a bottom surface of a 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 sub-cavity in a flow path direction.
According to the aforementioned configuration of the present invention, the shroud cover has the first impingement cooling hole which allows cooling air to be jetted in the cavity formed between the shroud cover and shroud members, to cool the inner surface of the cavity by impingement. The shroud members each have the hole fin which divides the cavity into a plurality of the sub-cavities, and the hole fin has the second impingement cooling hole which allows the cooling air having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole to be jetted obliquely toward the bottom surface of the adjacent sub-cavity. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of cooling air for cooling hot walls of a turbine shroud and a turbine end wall, with the thickness of the shroud members being the same as that of conventional ones, without increasing radial thickness of the entire shroud, by the structure simply having the hole fins that is as simple as a conventional structure.
That is, the cooled structure of the present invention is capable of significantly reducing the amount of cooling air by allowing cooling air, which is once used for impingement cooling to hot wall surfaces of the turbine shroud and end wall, to flow through an oblique hole (second impingement cooling hole) provided in the hole fin to re-use the cooling air for impingement cooling.
Other objects and advantageous features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description made with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, common parts are indicated by the same reference numerals, and overlapping description is omitted.
In
In the drawing, the reference numeral 32 indicates a fast-rotating turbine blade, the reference numeral 33 indicates a fixing portion, such as an inner surface of an engine, which allows a turbine shroud to be fixed thereto, and the reference numeral 34 indicates fixing hardware.
The impingement cooled structure of the present invention is constituted by a plurality of shroud members 10 and a shroud cover 20.
The shroud members 10 are disposed in a circumferential direction to constitute a ring-shaped shroud which surrounds the hot gas stream 1. The shroud cover 20 is mounted on the radial outside faces of the shroud members 10 to constitute a cavity 2 therebetween.
The shroud members 10 each have an inner surface 11, an outer surface 13, an upstream flange 14 and a downstream flange 15. The inner surface 11 extends along the hot gas stream 1 to be directly exposed to the hot gas stream 1. The outer surface 13 is positioned at the outside of the inner surface 11 to constitute a bottom surface of the cavity 2. The upstream flange 14 extends in the radial outward direction from the upstream side of the hot gas stream 1 to be fixed to the fixing portion 33. The downstream flange 15 extends in the radial outward direction from the downstream side of the hot gas stream 1 to be fixed to the fixing portion 33.
The upstream flange 14 and the downstream flange 15 are fixed to the fixing portion 33 to form a cooling air chamber 4 outside the shroud cover 20.
Furthermore, the shroud members 10 each include hole fins 12 at its central portion at a radial outward side. The hole fins 12 divide the cavity 2 into a plurality of sub-cavities 2a, 2b, and 2c. Although two hole fins 12 are used in the embodiment, a single or three or more hole fins 12 may be used. The hole fin means a fin having a second impingement cooling hole 12a described later.
The hole fins 12 extend in the radial outward direction from the outer surface 13 which constitutes the bottom surface of the cavity 2 to an inner surface (lower surface in the drawing) of the shroud cover 20 to divide the cavity 2 into a plurality of sub-cavities 2a, 2b, and 2c arranged adjacent to each other along the hot gas stream.
In addition, the hole fins 12 each have a second impingement cooling hole 12a which allows cooling air 3 having flowed through a first impingement cooling hole 22 to be jetted obliquely toward the bottom surfaces of the adjacent sub-cavities 2b and 2c.
The shroud cover 20 has the first impingement cooling hole 22 which communicates with the cavity 2 and allows the cooling air 3 to be jetted to the inside thereof so as to cool the inner surface of the cavity by impingement. The first impingement cooling hole 22 in the embodiment communicates with the sub-cavity 2a positioned on the most upstream side along the hot gas stream 1, and is a through hole perpendicular to the hot gas stream 1.
However, the present invention is not limited to this configuration, and the first impingement cooling hole 22 may communicates with the mid sub-cavity 2b or the sub-cavity 2c on the downstream side.
In the embodiment, the upstream flange 14 and the downstream flange 15 have third impingement cooling holes 14a and 15a, respectively, which allow the cooling air to be jetted toward the outer surfaces of the respective flanges 14 and 15 from the cavity 2.
In the impingement cooled structure of
Furthermore, the cooling air 3 having flowed in the sub-cavity 2b reaches a second impingement cooling hole 12a on the downstream side while exchanging heat with a hole fin 12, flows through the hole 12a, and impinges again upon a hot wall (a portion of the outer surface 13 which constitutes the bottom surface of the sub-cavity 2c) to thereby absorb heat from the wall. Finally, the cooling air 3 reaches the third impingement cooling hole 15a while exchanging heat with the downstream flange 15, flows through the hole 15a, and impinges upon the outer surface of the flange to thereby absorb heat from the wall, and then exit to the mainstream.
According to the aforementioned configuration, in the impingement cooled structure of the present invention, the cooling performance is improved by the effects obtained by the hole fins as well as re-use of cooling air. Accordingly, in the cooled structure of the present invention, even if the used amount of cooling air is reduced to about ½ or less than the used amount of cooling air in conventional impingement cooling, it is possible to maintain a metal temperature equivalent to that in conventional impingement cooling.
By the configuration of the second embodiment, the number of stages of impingement cooling can be reduced. Alternatively, in contrast, the number of stages of impingement cooling may be increased by increasing the number of hole fins 12.
By this configuration of the fifth embodiment, cooling can be enhanced by the film cooling holes in accordance with design requirements, for example.
By this configuration of the sixth embodiment, it is possible to enhance cooling by increasing the heat transfer coefficient and the heat transfer area.
By this configuration of the eighth embodiment, although the amount of cooling air is increased, cooling can be further enhanced.
Test results obtained by comparing the cooling efficiency of the aforementioned structure of the present invention against that of conventional examples are described below.
As schematically shown in
The cooling efficiency η is defined by the formula of η=(Tg−Tmg)/(Tg−Tc) . . . (1), where Tg is the hot mainstream air temperature and Tc is the cooling air temperature.
From the graph, it can be seen that the cooling efficiency of the present invention is high compared with the conventional examples 1 and 2. For example, when a cooling efficiency of 0.5 is required, wc/wg in the present invention is about 0.6% while wc/wg in the conventional examples is about 1.3%. Thus, the amount of air required can be reduced to ½ or less with the cooling efficiency η being maintained.
Next, in the structure of the present invention, the influence of a gap at a fin tip is tested.
From the graph, it is found that the temperature of the turbine shroud stands below an allowable value when Δh/h stands at or below about 0.2.
Next, in the structure of the present invention, the influence of the angle of a second impingement cooling hole 12a is tested.
From the graph, it is found that even if the angle is changed, the cooling efficiency is not much affected thereby.
Next, under the same conditions as those in
From the graphs, it can be seen that, when the value of e/L (where e is the impingement height, and L is cooling chamber length) is changed, the cooling efficiency when e/L is 0.13 is higher. However, when the angel θ of the second impingement cooling hole 12a is made large, the shroud thickness needs to be increased, resulting in undesirable effects such as an increase in weight and an increase in thermal stress at the time of operation. Therefore, the angle θ preferably stands at or below about 45°. In addition, the value of e/L is preferably small, preferably 0.26 or less.
As described above, according to the configuration of the present invention, the shroud cover 20 has the first impingement cooling hole 22 which allows cooling air 3 to be jetted in a cavity 2 formed between the shroud cover 20 and the shroud members 10, to cool the inner surface of the cavity by impingement, the shroud members 10 each have the hole fin 12 which divides the cavity 2 into a plurality of sub-cavities, and the hole fin 12 has a second impingement cooling hole 12a which allows the cooling air 3 having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole 22 to be jetted obliquely toward the bottom surface of the adjacent sub-cavity.
Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of cooling air for cooling hot walls of a turbine shroud and a turbine end wall, with the thickness of the shroud members 10 being the same as that of conventional ones, without increasing radial thickness of the entire shroud, by the structure simply having the hole fins 12 that is as simple as a conventional structure.
The present invention is not limited to the aforementioned examples and embodiments. Needless to say, various modifications of the aforementioned examples and embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2006-056084 | Mar 2006 | JP | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/JP2007/053486 | 2/26/2007 | WO | 00 | 9/2/2008 |