Airfoil with cooling circuit
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorRonald Scott Bunker
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Abstract
An airfoil for a turbine engine having an engine component including an air supply circuit coupled to a plurality of passages within the outer wall of the engine component where cooling air moves from the air supply circuit to an outer surface of the engine component through the passages.
Claims15
An airfoil for a turbine engine, the airfoil comprising:
- an outer wall having an outer surface and an inner surface bounding an interior space, the outer wall defining a pressure side and a suction side extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge and extending radially between a root and a tip;
- at least one coating applied to the outer surface;
- at least one wall cooling passage provided within at least a portion of an interior of the outer wall;
- at least one skin cooling circuit comprising multiple channels arranged in groups, with a first of the groups fluidly coupled upstream to the at least one wall cooling passage to supply the at least one wall cooling passage, and a second of the groups fluidly coupled downstream of the wall cooling passage to be supplied from the wall cooling passage located between the coating and the at least one wall cooling passage formed in the outer surface and fluidly coupled to the wall cooling passage;
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- at least one cooling air supply circuit located within the interior and fluidly coupled to at least one channel of the multiple channels to define a serial air flow path from the supply circuit to the at least one channel and then to the wall cooling passage;
- wherein at least one hole passes through the coating to the second of the groups.
An engine component for a turbine engine, which generates a hot air flow, and provides a cooling fluid flow, comprising:
- a wall separating the hot air flow from the cooling fluid flow and having a first surface along which the hot air flows in a hot flow path and a second surface facing the cooling fluid flow;
- at least one coating applied to the first surface;
- at least one wall cooling passage provided within at least a portion of an interior of the wall;
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- at least one skin cooling circuit comprising multiple channels arranged in groups, with a first of the groups fluidly coupled upstream to the at least one wall cooling passage to supply the at least one wall cooling passage, and a second of the groups fluidly coupled downstream of the wall cooling passage to be supplied from the wall cooling passage located between the coating and the at least one wall cooling passage formed in the first surface and fluidly coupled to the wall cooling passage;
- wherein the cooling fluid flow is fluidly coupled to at least one channel of the multiple channels, which is fluidly coupled to the wall cooling passage to define a serial cooling air flow path in a direction from the at least one channel to the wall cooling passage, and
- wherein at least one hole passes through the coating to the second of the groups.
A method of cooling an airfoil having an outer wall defining an outer surface with at least one coating applied to the outer surface, the method comprising passing a cooling airflow from a hollow interior of the airfoil to a channel formed in the outer surface and located between the outer surface and a wall cooling passage located within the outer wall, and then passing the cooling airflow from the channel to the wall cooling passage within the outer wall and passing the cooling airflow from the passage through a hole in the coating overlying the outer surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.