EROSION-SHIELDED TURBINE BLADES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240229648A9

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US17973198

    申请日:2022-10-25

    CPC classification number: F01D5/005 B23P6/007 F05D2230/10 F05D2230/22

    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an erosion-shielded turbine blade includes providing a turbine blade for use with a rotary machine. The turbine blade includes an airfoil extending between a root and a tip. The airfoil includes a pressure side and an opposite suction side, and each of the pressure and suction sides extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The method also includes printing a green body part by an additive manufacturing process by selectively depositing a binder solution across a particulate erosion-resistant material, and sintering the green body part to produce a post-sintering erosion shield that includes densified erosion-resistant material. The method also includes coupling the erosion shield to the leading edge of the turbine blade.

    Anti-icing systems and airfoils for a fan section of a turbine engine

    公开(公告)号:US11655828B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-23

    申请号:US17511850

    申请日:2021-10-27

    CPC classification number: F04D29/584 F01D25/02 F02C3/00 F05D2220/323

    Abstract: An airfoil for a fan section of a turbine engine may include a fan blade or an outlet guide vane, and an edge guard attached thereto. The edge guard may include a heating conduit disposed within at least a portion of the edge guard. An anti-icing system for a plurality of fan blades or outlet guide vanes may include a fluid supply pathway configured to supply heating fluid to respective ones of a plurality of heating conduits within the edge guards attached to respective ones of a plurality of fan blades and/or to a plurality of outlet guide vanes. The heating fluid may include bleed air from a core air flowpath. A method of inhibiting icing on an airfoil may include flowing a heating fluid into a heating conduit disposed within an edge guard attached to the airfoil and heating the edge guard with the heating fluid.

    Distributed nested cell damping system

    公开(公告)号:US11261738B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US17309467

    申请日:2018-12-11

    Abstract: A nested lattice structure for use in a damping system for a turbine blade includes a first lattice structure including: a first outer passage including a hollow interior; a second outer passage including a hollow interior; and an outer node including a hollow interior and forming an intersection of the first outer passage and the second outer passage. The nested lattice structure includes a second lattice structure nested within the hollow interior of the first lattice structure. The second lattice structure includes: a first inner passage; a second inner passage; and an inner node forming an intersection of the first inner passage and the second inner passage. Each of the first inner passage, the second inner passage, and the inner node are nested within the respective first outer passage, the second outer passage, and the outer node.

    Airfoil tip geometry to reduce blade wear in gas turbine engines

    公开(公告)号:US10385865B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-20

    申请号:US15063089

    申请日:2016-03-07

    Abstract: An airfoil for use in a turbomachine includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall coupled to the pressure sidewall. The suction sidewall and the pressure sidewall define a leading edge and an opposite trailing edge. The leading edge and the trailing edge define a chord distance. The airfoil further includes a root portion, and a tip portion. The tip portion extends between the pressure sidewall and the suction sidewall such that the tip portion is substantially perpendicular to each sidewall. The tip portion includes at least one planar section and at least one oblique section that forms a recess within the tip portion. The at least one oblique section extends from the at least one planar section towards the root portion along the chord distance. The tip portion is configured to reduce airfoil wear during contact with a surrounding casing.

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