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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1999
Tadashi Tanuma, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Taro Sakamoto, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A steam turbine that passes more turbine driving steam by off-setting the turbine moving blade throat-pitch ratio before operation and, when a blade untwist is generated during operation, causing more turbine driving steam to flow by maintaining an appropriate value, and, at the same time causing the turbine moving blade throat-pitch ratio to swell by giving the blade untwisting angle to the blade cross-sections in regions where the aerodynamic loss is small. The steam turbine is one in which the throat-pitch ratio (S/T) distribution of a turbine moving blade is offset by forming a curve providing at least one minimal value and maximal value by giving blade twist angle to the blade cross-sections in the blade height direction from blade root to blade tip and, at the same time, the distribution of throat-pitch ratio (S/T) taking into consideration blade untwist generated during operation.