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US 8,506,241 B1Granted
Turbine blade with cooling and tip sealing
AssigneeFlorida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
InventorGeorge Liang
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Abstract
A turbine rotor blade with a hollow open cavity formed between the airfoil walls, and radial flow near wall cooling channels formed within the walls that open on the tip surface to discharge the cooling air for sealing of the tip. The radial channels have a converging flow area to increase the cooling air flow velocity, and the radial cooling channels on the pressure side wall are slanted toward the pressure side so that the discharged cooling air will produce a smaller vena contractor and further reduce tip leakage flow.
Claims3
A turbine rotor blade comprising:
- a root and platform with a cooling air supply cavity formed within the root;
- an airfoil section extending from the root with a pressure side wall and a suction side wall forming a hollow cavity that is open on a tip of the blade;
- a plurality of radial near wall cooling channels formed within the pressure and suction side walls and open at the tip surface;
- the plurality of radial near wall cooling channels having a converging area such that cooling air flow will be accelerated;
- and,
- the radial near wall cooling channels formed within the pressure side wall are slanted toward the pressure side of the blade such that a smaller vena contractor is formed in a tip gap.
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