Ansaldo Energia Switzerland Ag

Alstom Technology Limited

Steffen Holzhaeuser

Carlos Simon-Delgado

Sergei Riazantsev

Igor Tsypkaykin

Carl Berger

Marco Lamminger

Cyrille Bricaud

Daniel Eckhardt

Torsten Winge

Sinisa Ivkovic

A rotor shaft adapted to rotate about a rotor axis thereof. The rotor shaft includes a rotor cavity configured concentrically to the rotor axis inside the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft further includes a plurality of cooling bores extending radially outward from the rotor cavity to feed cooling air into an internal cooling system in a blade. Each cooling bore includes a bore inlet portion and a distal bore outlet portion. The respective bore inlet portion ends in a plateau, projecting above the outer circumference contour of the rotor cavity. Thus, cooling bore inlets are shifted to a low stress area and the lifetime of the rotor is improved.

Rotor shaft for a turbomachine

The invention relates to a rotor shaft adapted to rotate about a rotor axis thereof. The rotor shaft includes a rotor cavity configured concentrically or quasi-concentrically to the rotor axis inside the rotor shaft, and a plurality of cooling bores extending radially or quasi-radially outward from the inside to an outside of the rotor shaft. Each cooling bore having a bore inlet location and a distal bore outlet portion, the respective bore inlet location being adapted to abut on the rotor cavity. At least one side or part-side of the cooling bore inlet location is provided with an asymmetric edge fillet in order to maximize the wall thickness between two adjacent cooling bores.

Rotor shaft with cooling bore inlets

The present invention relates to a rotor assembly for a rotary machine such as a gas turbine. The present solution provides a sealing wire located inside a groove engraved in the rotor body. The sealing wire is responsive to radial centrifugal forces acting during normal operation of the machine, and moves radially in the groove until a sealing configuration is achieved such to prevent damaging hot leakage towards machine components.

Rotor assembly for gas turbine

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Nussbaumen, Switzerland

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