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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJoseph W. Amyot, Stephen G. Ruggles, Philip F. Berrahou, Robert J. Orlando
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Steam turbine nozzle blades and buckets are profiled in accordance with Tables I and II or multiples of the X,Y and R coordinates of the charts. The profiles of the nozzle blades impose a parabolic flow distribution at the throat and the buckets accommodate the incoming flow. The nozzle blades and buckets are over-cambered at their roots and tips to constrict flow from the roots and tips into the mid-regions of the blades and buckets. Improved aerodynamic efficiencies are obtained by directing the flow away from the end walls of the blades and buckets toward the efficient mid-region of the blades and buckets whereby flow velocity and angle leaving the nozzle has a non-linear distribution and the bucket velocity leaving angles are similarly non-linear.
A nozzle for a steam turbine having a pair of adjacent blades having leading and trailing edges, blade bodies therebetween, and root and tip portions with a mid-region therebetween, said adjacent blades defining a throat therebetween measured by a series of straight lines extending from the trailing edges of a blade to the closest adjacent surface along the body of the adjacent blade and defining a pitch in the circumferential spacing between blades, the ratios of the throat to the pitch at successive profiles along said blades increasing from the root portions toward a mid-blade region and then decreasing from the mid-blade region to the tip portion, the blades being one of nozzle or bucket blades.
A nozzle for a steam turbine having a blade profile in accordance with Table I.
A nozzle for a steam turbine having nozzle blade profiles in accordance with Table I scaled by multiplying X,Y and R coordinates thereof by a predetermined number.
A bucket for a steam turbine having a bucket profile in accordance with Table II.
A bucket for a steam turbine having a bucket profile in accordance with Table II scaled by multiplying X,Y and R coordinates thereof by a predetermined number. blades being one of nozzle or bucket blades.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.