Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps – Including heat insulation or exchange means – Working fluid on at least one side of heat exchange wall
Patent
1992-01-28
1993-08-03
Look, Edward K.
Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
Including heat insulation or exchange means
Working fluid on at least one side of heat exchange wall
415177, 4151995, 416198A, F01D 508
Patent
active
052323390
ABSTRACT:
A rotor disk assembly includes rotor disks and structural spacer arms adapted to transmit axial loads and bending moments between adjacent disks. The spacer arms include cooling fins for convective cooling of the spacer arms. The spacer arm is preferably a self supporting wheel structure. The cooling fins are preferably circumferentially continuous and extend radially into a relatively cooler rotor bore cavity in which the disk hubs are supported. The cooling fins can be positioned on the spacer arms to reduce thermal distortion of the spacer arms, and thereby reduce bending stresses transmitted to the disks. The spacer arm includes a body section adjacent a relatively higher temperature seal cavity, which can be purged by cooling air from the relatively lower temperature rotor bore cavity. The temperature differential between the body section and the cooler fin tips results in transfer of centrifugal hoop loads to the cooling fins, thereby reducing the loads in the spacer arm body section and the amount of cooling air required to purge the higher temperature seal cavity.
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Plemmons Larry W.
Wesling Richard A.
General Electric Company
Larson James A.
Look Edward K.
Rafter John R.
Squillaro Jerome C.
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