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US 5,848,876 AGranted
Cooling system for cooling platform of gas turbine moving blade
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorYasuoki Tomita
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Abstract
An effective cooling structure that is intended to cool a platform of a gas turbine moving blade. Cooling air passages (B1, C1, D1; B2, C2, D2; and B3, C3 and D3) are provided through the interior and along the peripheral edge of the platform (2) to thereby cause a cooling air to pass therethrough.
Claims3
A gas turbine blade comprising:
- a platform;
- a blade portion extending from said platform and having a blade head side and a blade tail side;
- a blade root portion connected to said platform;
- and
- a cooling system for cooling said platform, said cooling system comprising an air passage that is arranged to cause cooling air, which is supplied from said blade root portion on said blade trail side of said blade portion, to pass sequentially through the interior of said platform in the vicinity of said blade tail side and through opposite sides of said platform between said blade tail side and said blade head side, and then be released at an end face of said platform at said blade head side of said platform.
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A gas turbine blade comprising:
- a platform having a blade head side and a blade tail side;
- a blade portion extending from said platform;
- a blade root portion connected to said platform;
- and
- a cooling system for cooling said platform, said cooling system comprising:
- a first air passage extending radially through said blade root portion to said platform, said first air passage being arranged to cause a cooling air, which is supplied from said blade root portion, to pass into an interior of said platform in the vicinity of said blade head side of said platform;
- a second air passage in communication with said first radially extending air passage, said second air passage being formed in the interior of said platform at said blade head side so as to extend parallel to an upper surface of said platform;
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- third and fourth air passages formed in the interior of said platform at opposite sides thereof so as to extend between said blade head side and said blade tail side of said platform, wherein said third and fourth air passages communicate with each other via said second air passage, and air can be released from each of said third and fourth air passages at an end face of said platform at said blade tail side of said platform.
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A gas turbine blade comprising:
- a platform having a blade head side and a blade tail side;
- a blade portion extending from said platform;
- a blade root portion connected to said platform;
- and
- a cooling system for cooling said platform, said cooling system comprising an air passage arranged to cause a cooling air, which is supplied from said blade root portion at said blade tail side of said platform, to pass sequentially through the interior of said platform in the vicinity of a blade tail side of said platform, through the interior of said platform at opposite sides of said platform between said blade tail side and said blade head side, and then be released in the direction of said blade root portion at positions in the vicinity of an end face of said platform at said blade head side of said platform.
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