Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e. – impellers) – With heating – cooling or thermal insulation means
Patent
1981-06-11
1984-06-26
Marcus, Stephen
Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)
With heating, cooling or thermal insulation means
416 96R, 416 92, 415115, F01D 518
Patent
active
044564279
ABSTRACT:
The turbine blades of a high pressure turbine in a gas turbine jet engine are cooled by cooling air injected into cooling channels in the blade using angled nozzles supplied with high pressure air from the engine compressor. The nozzles project the high pressure air across a lower-pressure gap into slots which lead to internal channels in the turbine disk without requiring the use of seals to produce a pressure differential to encourage the flow of cooling air. Maximum air transfer into the internal channels in the turbine blades occurs when the air impacting slots in the turbine wheel is travelling at an angle with respect to the slots which is approximately parallel to the axes of the internal channels. A relatively narrow range of angular misalignment for aiming the nozzles is permitted. The pressure of the air from the plenum may be reduced by employing two or more flow channels in series before projecting the air across the gap to the turbine wheel.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2988325 (1961-06-01), Dawson
patent: 3791758 (1974-02-01), Jenkinson
patent: 4178129 (1979-12-01), Jenkinson
Evans Dennis C.
Gladden Robert E.
Nicoll Robert A.
Conte Francis L.
General Electric Company
Kwon John
Lawrence Derek P.
Marcus Stephen
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