Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.

Shigeki Senoo

Shinichi Isobe

Wataru Yamada

Hiroki Takeda

Yoshitomo Noda

Takehiko Nishida

Yuichi Sekine

Kazuki Hosono

Takuyoshi Yamada

Tetsuaki Kimura

Kiyoshi Segawa

Kazuhiro Momma

Hideki Ono

Toshio Watanabe

Takeshi Kudo

Soichiro Tabata

Yoshiaki Yamazaki

Yoshiharu Nakayama

Yoshio Shikano

Kenichi Murata

Yoshihiro Kuwamura

Tatsuo Ishiguro

Hideyuki Uechi

Hiroyuki Mitsui

Takuzo Shigihara

Takahiro Hidaka

Hisataka Fukushima

Tateki Nakamura

Eiji Saito

Kiyoshi Tatsuhara

Yutaka Yamashita

Yuichiro Hirano

Goingwon Lee

Kunio Asai

Eiji Saitou

Tetsuya Sawatsubashi

Sotaro Takei

Takahiro Yamana

Norito Katsuki

Yuya Fukuda

Hideyuki Kudo

Ryuichi Matsubara

Reza Abhari

Anestis Kalfas

Ilias Papagiannis

Vahid Iranidokht

Sou Shioshita

Teppei Hata

Yoshio Sikano

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion and having a diameter decreasing from an upstream side on one side in the axis direction toward a downstream side on another side in the axis direction, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller, the motor including a rotor having a ring-like shape and being fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and being fixed in the shroud, in which the motor is a conical motor in which diameters of the rotor and the stator decrease from the upstream side toward the downstream side.

Fluid machine and underwater vehicle

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud having an inside surface with a diameter decreasing from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller and including a rotor having a ring-like shape fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and fixed in the shroud, in which a plurality of the propellers are provided to be spaced apart in the axis direction, the motors are provided in an identical number to the propellers to correspond to each of the propellers, and of a plurality of motors, the rotor of the motor positioned more on the downstream side has a smaller average outside diameter.

Fluid machine for underwater vehicle and underwater vehicle

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a first propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a second propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud on the downstream side of the first propeller; an outer periphery driving motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the first propeller; and an inner periphery driving motor provided in the shaft portion and configured to rotationally drive the second propeller in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the first propeller.

A steam turbine according to the present invention comprises: a shaft which rotates about the rotation axis thereof; a plurality of moving blades which extend in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and which are arranged along the circumferential direction; a casing main body which covers the shaft and the moving blades from the outer peripheral side; a plurality of stationary blades which are arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the casing main body; and a substance supply unit which supplies, to the surfaces of the moving blades and/or the surfaces of the stationary blades, a film forming substance that is hydrophobic, wherein the substance supply unit has a storage unit, a supply passage which is formed inside the casing and through which the film forming substance flows, and discharge units which are formed inside the moving blades and/or the stationary blades and which guide the film forming substance to the surfaces.

Steam turbine, blade, and method for improving performance and reliability of steam turbine

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the propeller; and a bearing apparatus provided only to the shaft portion, out of the shroud and the shaft portion, and rotationally supporting the propeller.

This steam turbine blade is provided with: a blade body () extending in a radial direction and having an airfoil profile in a cross section perpendicular to the radial direction; and a heater (H) including a heating wire disposed so as to extend along a trailing edge (Er) of the airfoil profile in the blade body (). This configuration makes it possible to further mitigate an efficiency drop due to moisture attached to the surface of the steam turbine blade ().

Steam turbine blade, steam turbine, and method for operating same

A blade set of the present disclosure is exposed to a working fluid, which includes a blade main bodies which are disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction about an axis and each extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis wherein a tip end surface is formed on an outer circumferential side of each blade main body and the tip end surface of the blade main body includes a leading edge side region positioned on an upstream side in a flow direction of the working fluid along the axis and a trailing edge side region positioned on a downstream side in the flow direction, and a shroud which is provided on an outer circumferential side of the blade main bodies and covering either the leading edge side regions or the trailing edge side regions of the blade main bodies.

Blade set and blisk

This steam turbine comprises: a rotating shaft that extends along an axis; a plurality of rotor blades that are arranged in the circumferential direction and that extend in a radial direction from the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft; a casing body that covers the rotating shaft and the rotor blades from the outer circumference side; and a plurality of stationary blades that extend in the radial direction from a position on the inner circumferential surface of the casing body on the upstream side of the rotor blades and that are arranged in the circumferential direction. A plurality of microgrooves that extend in the steam flow direction are formed on the surface of the rotor blades and/or the stationary blades.

Steam turbine, and blade

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud surrounding the shaft portion and including an inside surface that forms a flow path-forming surface defining a flow path with the shaft portion; a first propeller rotatably provided in the flow path; a second propeller rotatably provided on a downstream side of the first propeller in the flow path; and a motor including a rotor that is fixed to an outer circumferential portion of the second propeller and that is accommodated in the shroud, and a stator that surrounds the rotor via a clearance and that is fixed in the shroud. A portion of the flow path-forming surface on a downstream side of the second propeller decreases in diameter toward the downstream side, and the shroud includes an inlet flow path that is open at a portion between the first propeller and the second propeller of the flow path-forming surface.

Fluid machine

To provide an axial flow turbine that can reduce circumferential pressure differences to reduce loss. The axial flow turbine includes: stator blades arrayed in the circumferential direction; and a diaphragm inner ring having an outer circumferential surface that interconnects the stator blades on their inner-circumference side and constitutes a wall surface of a main flow path. The outer circumferential surface of the diaphragm inner ring has depressed portions. Each depressed portion is formed in an area that is on the downstream side of a throat where the distance between a suction surface of one stator blade of a pair of adjacent blades and a pressure surface of other stator blade of the pair of adjacent blades becomes the shortest, and that lies in the circumferential direction within a range of a throat position on the suction surface of the one stator blade to a downstream edge position of the one stator blade. The area includes a downstream edge position of the outer circumferential surface in the axial direction.

Axial flow turbine

A turbine includes a shaft configured to rotate about a rotor axis; a pair of rotating blade rows, the pair of rotating blade rows including a pair of disks that extend radially outward from the shaft and are disposed at an interval in a direction of the rotor axis, each one of the pair of rotating blade rows including a plurality of rotating blades arranged in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral end of the disk; and a pair of stator vane rows disposed in a one-to-one manner on a first side of the pair of rotating blade rows in the direction of the rotor axis, each one of the pair of stator vane rows including a plurality of stator vanes arranged in the circumferential direction, wherein a number of the rotating blades on each one of the pair of rotating blade rows is the same, and a number of the stator vanes on each one of the pair of stator vane rows is the same.

Turbine

A non-positive displacement type pressurizing device for pressurizing a fluid includes a rotor including a rotary blade row including a plurality of rotary blades provided at intervals in a circumferential direction; a casing that accommodates the rotor; a stationary blade row supported by the casing and including a plurality of stationary blades provided at intervals in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of heat exchanging units for cooling the fluid, wherein the heat exchanging units are configured to divide a flow path formed between stationary blades, of the plurality of stationary blades, adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction in a height direction of the stationary blades.

Pressurizing device, carbon dioxide cycle plant, and combined cycle plant

A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a platform including an end wall to which a base-end portion of the airfoil portion is connected. The end wall includes a concave portion on suction surface disposed at least in a region of suction surface of the end wall, and a convex portion on pressure surface disposed at least in a region of pressure surface of the end wall. The concave portion on suction surface has a bottom point located on an axially upstream side of a tangent point on the suction surface, the suction surface having a tangential line extending in an axial direction through the tangent point.

Turbine blade and steam turbine including the same

An axial flow rotating machine includes: a rotor; a plurality of vanes; and a medium flow modification member. Each of the vanes has an inner shroud and one or more seal fins. An annular groove, which is recessed toward a radially inner side, in which the inner shroud and the seal fins are placed in a non-contact manner, is formed at a rotor shaft. A distance from an end of the inner shroud on a furthest axially downstream side to a downstream-side groove side surface is a distance (L). A distance (Lf) from a most-downstream seal fin to a medium flow modification surface is equal to or less than the distance (L) in the axially downstream side.

Axial flow rotating machine

An axial turbine includes an upstream turbine stage that includes: a cover disposed at a distal end of an upstream bucket and opposed to an inner wall of an upstream diaphragm outer ring across a gap; and a downstream diaphragm outer ring that is disposed downstream of the upstream turbine stage and that has an inner peripheral-side end wall shaped into a flare. The inner peripheral-side end wall of the downstream diaphragm outer ring has a flare angle formed to be greater than a slant angle of an inner peripheral-side wall of the cover. In the axial turbine, the inner peripheral-side end wall of the downstream diaphragm outer ring is formed to have a meridional shape that has at least one inflection point between the upstream turbine stage and a downstream turbine stage and such that a tangent at the inflection point with respect to a steam flow direction has a positive gradient.

Axial turbine

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