摘要:
A turbofan engine has a fan having a circumferential array of fan blades. A fan case encircles the fan. There is at least one compressor section, a combustor, and at least one turbine section. The fan case comprises a composite structural member and a metallic member encircled by the composite structural member. The metallic member is mounted to the composite structural member to permit differential thermal expansion proximate the blades.
摘要:
An engine has a blade, a casing surrounding the blade, an seal ring, and a passive system for connecting the seal ring to the casing and for accommodating thermal expansion of the seal ring relative to the casing so as to maintain blade tip clearance control. The passive system may include at least one, metallic Z-band extending between the casing and the seal ring.
摘要:
A turbine stator of a gas turbine engine includes a turbine casing, a turbine shroud ring and a shroud ring support connecting the shroud ring to the casing. The stator is one wherein the support is provided with a heat shield positioned on the turbine side. This assembly makes it possible to reduce the take-up of play during transient operating phases.
摘要:
A thermally-activated flow clearance reduction for a steam turbine is disclosed. In one embodiment a gap closure component is located about a rotary component and a stationary component of the steam turbine. A temperature differential activates the gap closure component to seal or reduce the radial clearance of the steam flow path between the rotary component and the stationary component.
摘要:
A turbine engine includes a rotatable turbine having a peripheral tip and a backface. A heat shield is positioned adjacent the backface and includes an integral ring extending from a peripheral edge of the heat shield to a position spaced radially outwardly from the peripheral tip of the rotatable turbine to form a tip clearance between the ring and the peripheral tip. The turbine comprises a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion at least approximately four times greater than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the heat shield such that the turbine expands toward the ring as a result of heat within the engine, thereby reducing the tip clearance to minimize air flow along the backface and improve efficiency of the engine.
摘要:
A variable clearance packing ring includes a plurality of circumferentially extending segments disposed in a generally dovetail-shaped slot in the stationary component of a machine having a rotor rotatable about an axis, the packing ring including an arcuate seal face in opposition to the rotor and axially extending flanges within the dovetail slot. Pins project axially from opposite sides of the stationary component for location between the flanges and sealing faces of the segments. A centering ring is mounted on the pins for each segment and has a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the segment. The centering rings engage the flanges of the segments at a first location, maintaining the segment seal face in a first clearance position relative to the rotor and engage the flanges at a second location in response to relative thermal expansion of the segment and the centering rings, enabling the segment to be displaced radially inwardly under the bias of a spring to locate the seal face in a second clearance position about the rotor radially inwardly of the first clearance position.
摘要:
A brush seal (3) is provided to seal two differently pressurized spaces (R.sub.1, R.sub.2) on opposite sides of a rotor (1) cooperating with a stator (2), for example in a gas turbine engine, around a circumferential gap between the rotor (1) and the stator (2). The brush seal (3) includes seal bristles (5) having free ends extending annularly concentrically and parallel to a rotation axis of the rotor (1) and fixed ends received in a seal housing (6). A perimeter rim of the rotor (1) has an axis-concentric circumferential groove (7) therein, and the free ends of the seal bristles (5) reach into this circumferential groove (7). During operation of the rotor (1), fluid boundary layers are formed respectively between the seal bristles (5) and the side walls (9A, 9B) of the circumferential groove (7). The boundary layers (G.sub.I, G.sub.A) cause the seal bristles (5) to float up out of contact with and substantially centered between the side walls of the circumferential groove (7), and also enhance the seal effect. The axis-parallel orientation of the bristles (5) reduces the radial height of the seal arrangement, and ensures that good radial compensation is still achieved.
摘要:
In an arrangement for influencing the radial clearance of the blading of an axial-flow, highly loaded compressor which essentially comprises a rotor (1) equipped with moving blades (2) and a blade carrier (3) which is equipped with guide blades (4) and is hung in a casing (5), the blade carrier (3) has long and narrow mountings (7) for the guide blades (4), at least one hollow space (9) being arranged in the guide-blade roots (8), a hollow space (10) being present in each case in the embedded state in the peripheral direction between the guide-blade root (8), the two mountings (7) for a guide blade (4) and the blade carrier (3), a further hollow space (11) being present in each case in the peripheral direction between the blade carrier (3) and the mountings (7) for two successive guide blades (4), which hollow space (11) is defined by a plurality of segments (12) distributed over the periphery and connected to the guide-blade roots (8), and the hollow spaces (9, 10, 11) being filled with insulating material (15).
摘要:
In a gas turbine engine tip clearance between rotor blades and an encircling shroud liner is controlled by moving the shroud liner radially to match the thermal and centrifugal growth of the rotor assembly. The shroud liner segments are suspended between two axially displaced control rings located in a passageway carrying air ducted from the compressor. One control ring responds very quickly to changes in gas temperature corresponding to centrifugal growth and blade thermal growth. The other ring responds very much more slowly and corresponds to the thermal growth of the disc. The shroud liner segments are suspended from the control rings to adopt a position that constitutes the average between the growth positions of the two control rings.
摘要:
A gas turbine compressor casing has two inner and outer envelopes forming at least one closed cavity and a locking or clamping ring having a thermal inertia higher than that of the envelopes and mounted in the closed cavity in such a way as to limit its contraction during a lowering of the temperature. The thermal inertia difference can be obtained by using for the locking ring a material having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than the coefficient of the envelopes. It can also be controlled by a ventilation means device for ensuring hot air flow in the cavity.