Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Energy Global Gmbh & Co. Kg

Marcus Hüning

Uwe Kahlstorf

Hans-Georg Gamm

Otmar Gossmann

A method for controlling a gap minimization for an adjustable gap between a rotor and a housing of a gas turbine carried out on the basis of a correlation extracted from simulation data. If the actual value (P) lies below the lower threshold (P), the gap minimization is deactivated, whereas if the actual value lies above the upper threshold (P), the gap minimization is activated. The gap minimization is activated between the thresholds (P, P) if the actual value lies above the threshold (P) but is deactivated if the actual value (P) lies below the threshold (P).

Method for controlling a gap minimization of a gas turbine

A gas turbine having at least one inner and outer housing part, between which two housing parts a ring channel is at least partially arranged, which ring channel circumferentially surrounds the useful flow of the working fluid prevailing during operation of the gas turbine and circumferentially surrounds the gas turbine rotor. The ring channel is designed to conduct a cooling fluid in the circumferential direction, wherein the ring channel is divided into ring sectors in the circumferential direction by separators. A tube is at least partially provided in the ring channel which fluidically connects individual ring sectors to each other, and is designed as a distributing tube, which is fluidically connected to at least one cooling-fluid line for conducting cooling fluid and has at least one outlet opening, which at least one outlet opening is designed to transfer the cooling fluid from the tube into the ring sectors.

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Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Marcus Hüning