Steam turbine
AssigneeMitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
InventorsKazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yukinori Machida, Asaharu Matsuo
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Abstract
A turbine includes an annular turbine blade body disposed on a flow path, a diaphragm outer ring installed at a tip side of the annular turbine blade body via a clearance, and seal fins formed to protrude from the diaphragm outer ring and configured to form small clearances with the annular turbine blade body, wherein dead water region-filling sections are formed in cavities in which main vortexes are generated, such that a dead water region that the main vortexes cannot reach is filled.
Claims13
A turbine comprising:
- a shaft body;
- a turbine blade fixed to the shaft body and disposed on a flow path through which a fluid flows;
- a tip shroud formed at a tip of the turbine blade;
- a structure;
- and
- a plurality of turbine blade side seal fins protruded from the structure,
- wherein:
- the structure is located close to the tip shroud so that a space is provided between the tip shroud and the plurality of turbine blade side seal fins,
- the plurality of turbine blade side seal fins are configured to form small clearances which are provided between the tip shroud and the plurality of turbine blade side seal fins,
- the tip shroud has a stepped part in cross section,
- the plurality of turbine blade side seal fins correspond to stages of the tip shroud,
- dead water region-filling sections are formed in spaces defined by the tip shroud, the structure, and the plurality of turbine blade side seal fins and in which a vortex flow of the fluid is generated, such that dead water regions that the vortex flow cannot reach are filled,
- the dead water region-filling sections are formed in both of a first corner of each of the spaces and a second corner of each of the spaces,
- the first corner of each of the spaces is formed by a first axial direction wall surface disposed on an upstream side along an axial direction of the turbine blade and a radial direction wall surface disposed along a radial direction of the turbine blade,
- the radial direction wall surface is connected between the first axial direction wall surface and a second axial direction wall surface disposed closer to a structure side than the first axial direction wall surface and disposed on a downstream side,
- the first corner of each of the spaces is continuously formed between the first axial direction wall surface and the second axial direction wall surface, and
- the second corner of each of the spaces is formed by the structure and a surface facing toward an upstream side of one of the plurality of turbine blade side seal fins opposed to the second axial direction wall surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.