Abstract:
A gas turbine includes a rotor concentrically surrounded by a casing, with an annular hot gas channel axially extending between the rotor and the casing. The rotor is equipped with a plurality of blades, which are arranged on the rotor in an annular fashion. Each of the blades is mounted with a root in a respective axial slot on a rim of the rotor radially extending with an airfoil into said hot gas channel and adjoining with an axially oriented root surface to an annular rim cavity. Cooling means are provided at the root of each of said blades to receive cooling air being injected into said rim cavity through stationary injecting means. An optimized cooling is achieved by providing the root surface to be an essentially plane surface and the cooling means including a scoop for capturing and redirecting at least part of the injected cooling air, which scoop is designed as a recess with respect to the root surface.
Abstract:
A method and a cooling system for cooling blades of at least one blade row in a rotary flow machine includes an axial flow channel which is radially limited on the inside by a rotor unit and at the outside by at least one stationary component, the blades are arranged at the rotary unit and provide a shrouded blade tip facing radially to said stationary component. Pressurized cooling air is fed through from radially outside towards the tip of each of said blades in the at least one blade row, and the pressurized cooling air enters the blades through at least one opening at the shrouded blades' tip.
Abstract:
The invention refers to a blade of a rotary flow machine including an airfoil having a suction surface and a pressure surface joining each other along a trailing and a leading edge. A radially outward directed airfoil tip and a radially inward directed end joining an inner platform connect the airfoil to a shank at a radial end of the airfoil and providing, at least one shank pocket radially encircled by an axially extending portion of the platform. At least one radially extending rim extends from the trailing edge side of the shank and has an essentially radially orientated first slot for receiving a seal. A mount extends radially inwardly from said shank pocket. The first slot has a first aperture on a shank surface orientated in an axial direction.