Alstom Technology Limited

Andrey Petrovich Morozov

Alexander Anatolievich Khanin

Edouard Sloutski

Oleg Naryzhny

A stator for a turbine includes an arrangement of vanes including at least a first vane and a second vane circumferentially neighboring the first vane. Each of the first vane and the second vane include: an airfoil; a channel system configured to cool the respective vane with cooling gas; and an inner diameter platform disposed at an inner end of the airfoil, the inner diameter platform including an inner diameter platform cavity and a circumferentially arranged side wall which delimits the inner diameter platform cavity, the inner diameter platform cavity being connected with the channel system so as to feed the cooling gas to the inner diameter platform. At least one sealing plate is disposed between the circumferentially arranged side walls of the first vane and the second vane so as to form an intermediate cavity that is fluidically separated from the inner diameter platform cavities.

Turbine vane

A cast turbine blade is disclosed and includes an internal cooling passage that passes (e.g., zig-zags or meanders) through the blade from an inlet in the blade root to an outlet in the blade tip. The cooling passage can have a zone at a bend that is at a distance which is remote from the inlet of the cooling passage when the distance from the inlet is measured around the passage, but that is closer to the inlet when the distance from the inlet is measured in a straight line. During casting of the blade, the cooling passage can be defined by a core or cores having a leachable material, the cores being removed after casting by a chemical leaching process. A supplementary passage is also provided for connecting the remote zone to the inlet during the leaching process. The supplementary passage can likewise be defined by a leachable core, or it may be machined into the blade after casting. During the service life of the blade, a plug can be used to obturate the supplementary passage to prevent leakage of cooling air from the cooling passage through the supplementary passage.

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Khimki, Russia

Andrey Petrovich Morozov