Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Masami Noda

Shinya Marushima

Nobuaki Kizuka

Shinichi Higuchi

Manabu Matsumoto

Shunichi Anzai

Kazunori Yamanaka

Satoshi Kondou

Kazuhiko Kawaike

Takashi Ikeguchi

Yasuhiro Horiuchi

Tsuyoshi Takano

Ichiro Miyoshi

Takanori Shibata

Tomomi Koganezawa

Isao Takehara

Ryo Akiyama

Nobuhiro Seiki

Ryou Akiyama

Satoshi Kondo

Tetsuo Sasada

Haruo Urushidani

Masaru Sekihara

Shin'ichi Higuchi

The object of the invention is to suppress development of a secondary current whirl in the vicinity of a rotor blade front edge of a gas turbine even when a cooling refrigerant is mixed in from the front edge of an end wall section of the rotor blade. In a gas turbine rotor bladeincluding a wing shape sectionformed of a negative pressure surfaceextending from a front edgeto a rear edge, a pressure surfaceopposing the negative pressure surfaceand extending from the front edgeto the rear edge, and a tip surfacesurrounded by the top end of the negative pressure surfaceand the top end of the pressure surface, and an end wall sectionconnected to the bottom end of the negative pressure surfaceand the bottom end of the pressure surface, the rotor blade has a convex shape in positions constituting the negative pressure surfaceside and the front edgeside of the end wall section, and the rotor blade has a concave shape in positions constituting the pressure surfaceside and the front edgeside of the end wall section

Gas turbine including a contoured end wall section of a rotor blade

A turbine rotor blade is provided that can reduce a total pressure loss at a blade cross-section on a tip side of the blade and suppress degradation in performance even if cooling air mixes in toward the blade. The rotor blade is mounted to a rotor to form a turbine blade row rotating in a stationary member that includes a platform forming a gas passage through which a mainstream gas flows and an airfoil extending from a gas passage plane in a radial direction vertical to the rotational axis of the rotor, the gas passage plane being a plane of the platform and forming the gas passage. A clearance between the tip-side end face, which is a leading end-side end face of the airfoil, and the stationary member facing the tip-side end face is smaller on the downstream side than on the upstream side.

Turbine rotor blade

A gas turbine stator vane is effective for suppressing a secondary flow in a region sandwiched between a suction surface side and a pressure surface side, as well as for suppressing augmentation of a horseshoe-shaped vortex occurring near a leading edge of the vane. The stator vane includes a vane profile portion having a pressure surface concaved to a chord line of the vane, and a suction surface convexed to the chord line; an outer-circumferential end wall positioned at an outer circumferential side of the vane profile portion; and an inner-circumferential end wall positioned at an inner circumferential side of the vane profile portion. An outer-circumferential end wall inner surface that is an inner-circumferential surface of the outer-circumferential end wall has an inward convexed shape and an outward convexed shape, at the suction surface side of the vane profile portion.

Gas turbine stator vane

A gas turbine includes a nozzle vane and a sealing unit engaged with the nozzle vane inside a turbine supplied with combustion gases produced by mixing and burning air for combustion and fuel. The nozzle vane and the sealing unit are disposed in a channel of the downward flowing combustion gases on the outlet side of a gas path. A plurality of engagement portions between the sealing unit and the nozzle vane are provided successively from the upstream side toward the downstream side in a direction of flow of the combustion gases, and a downstream one of the plurality of engagement portions has a contact interface formed in a direction across a turbine rotary shaft. A reduction in the thermal efficiency of the gas turbine can be suppressed.

Gas turbine and gas turbine cooling method

The invention provides a gas turbine installation, a cooling air supplying method, a method of modifying a gas turbine installation, which can reduce the amount of compressed air extracted for cooling of an exhaust plenum and which can increase energy efficiency. The gas turbine installation comprises an exhaust plenum comprising an exhaust casing connected to the downstream side of a turbine and made up of an outer casing and an inner casing, and an exhaust diffuser made up of an outer diffuser and an inner diffuser, which are disposed between the outer casing and the inner casing; a first cooling system for introducing, from the outer peripheral side of the outer diffuser, cooling air for cooling the exhaust plenum; and a second cooling system for introducing, from the inner peripheral side of the inner diffuser, cooling air for cooling the exhaust plenum.

Gas turbine installation, cooling air supplying method and method of modifying a gas turbine installation

The invention provides a production process of a gas turbine capable of being applied to various cycles. A principal part of a gas turbine is set in advance based on roughly set conditions, and the number of stages of a compressor and the number of stages of a turbine, which can provide conditions suitable for a desired cycle, are set based on the set principal part. The compressor and the turbine each having the set number of stages and included in the principal part are combined with each other to construct the gas turbine. When the set number of stages of the compressor or the turbine differs among a plurality of desired cycles, a substantially disk-shaped member having an outer periphery, which forms an inner peripheral wall of a substantially annular flow passage of the compressor or the turbine, is assembled into the cycle having a smaller number of stages so that the bearing-to-bearing distance is kept constant in the gas turbine operated in the plurality of desired cycles.

Production process of gas turbine

In a closed circuit moving blade cooled turbine, holes in the radial direction formed in the outer periphery of a second stage wheel are led to cooling air supply holes to second stage moving blades. The holes in the radial direction and the cooling air supply holes are interconnected and supply members covering the connections are installed. The cooling air after cooling the second stage moving blades is introduced into collection holes formed in the outer periphery of the spacer via the cooling air collection holes. The cooling air collection holes and collection holes are interconnected and collection members covering the connection are installed. To make the sum of minimum sectional areas of the respective paths of the second stage moving blades, smaller than the sum of minimum sectional areas of thee respective path of the first stage moving blades, a minimum sectional member is incorporated into the supply member.

Closed circuit blade-cooled turbine

A gas turbine has a cooling air system supplying air for cooling a high temperature part of the gas turbine and a spray air system supplying air for spraying fuel into a combustor and is formed so that a part of high-pressure air compressed by a gas turbine compressor is used as air of the cooling air system and spray air system, wherein a heat exchanger and a boost compressor are arranged downstream of the outlet of compressed air of the gas turbine compressor, and the boost compressor is composed of a parallel connection of a compressor driven by the turbine shaft and ae compressor driven by a driven source other than the turbine shaft, and pressurized air from the boost compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and the spray air system.

Gas turbine having a cooling air system and a spray air system

A production process of a gas turbine capable of being applied to various cycles. A principal part of a gas turbine is initially set based on roughly set conditions, and the number of stages of the compressor and of the turbine for a desired cycle are set for the principal part. The compressor and the turbine each having the set number of stages and included in the principal part are combined to construct the gas turbine. When the set number of stages of the compressor or the turbine differs for a different desired cycle, a disk-shaped member having an outer periphery, which forms an inner peripheral wall of the annular flow passage of the compressor or the turbine, is assembled into the principal part having a smaller number of stages so that the bearing-to-bearing distance is kept constant.

A gas turbine having a rotor driven by a shaft with a cooling medium passageway therein has a heat shield pipe portion mounted inside the passageway which forms an air layer with a wall of the passageway to protect a bearing member metal supporting the shaft from the heat of a cooling medium and a seal shaft portion for forming a labyrinth seal to prevent leakage of the cooling medium are formed as one piece and constitute a heat shied seal pipe.

Gas turbine shaft and heat shield cooling arrangement

Gas turbine equipment and gas turbine cooling method

In a closed circuit moving blade cooled turbine, holes in the radial direction formed in the outer periphery of a second stage wheel are led to cooling air supply holes to second stage moving blades. The holes in the radial direction and the cooling air supply holes are interconnected and supply members covering the connection are installed. The cooling air after cooling the second stage moving blades is introduced into collection holes formed in the outer periphery of the spacer via the cooling air collection holes. The cooling air collection holes and collection holes are interconnected and collection members covering the connection are installed. To make the sum of minimum sectional areas of the respective paths of the second stage moving blades smaller than the sum of minimum sectional areas of the respective paths of the first stage moving blades, a minimum sectional member is incorporated into the supply member.

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