F05D2240/61

TURBINE ROTOR

A turbine rotor in an embodiment is configured by joining a rotor component member and a rotor component member together by bolt fastening with an abutting end surface of the rotor component member and an abutting end surface of the rotor component member abutting on each other. The turbine rotor includes: a cylindrical recessed portion that is formed at the abutting end surface and is recessed in an axial direction; an axial passage bored from a bottom surface of the cylindrical recessed portion in the axial direction; an introduction passage introducing the cooling medium into the axial passage; a discharge passage discharging the cooling medium from the axial passage; and a sealing member that is arranged in the cylindrical recessed portion and seals one end of the axial passage.

THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A GAS TURBINE ENGINE SHAFT
20210340911 · 2021-11-04 ·

A gas turbine engine includes a fan rotor, a compressor section, a combustor section, and a turbine section. The turbine section is positioned downstream of the combustor section. A fan drive turbine in the turbine section, and a shaft connects the fan drive turbine to the fan rotor. An inlet duct is connected to a cooling air source and connected to a cooling compressor downstream of the fan drive turbine. The cooling compressor is connected to an air source, and connected to a turning duct for passing compressed air in an upstream direction through the shaft. A method is also disclosed.

Integrated pump and compressor and method of producing multiphase well fluid downhole and at surface

An integrated system is disclosed to handle production of multiphase fluid consisting of oil, gas and water. The production stream is first separated into two streams: a liquid dominated stream (GVF<5% for example) and a gas dominated stream (GVF>95% for example). The separation can be done through shrouds, cylindrical cyclonic, gravity, in-line or the like separation techniques. The two streams are then routed separately to pumps which pump dissimilar fluids, such as a liquid pump and a gas compressor, and subsequently recombined. Both pumps are driven by a single motor shaft which includes an internal passageway associated with one of the pumps for reception of the fluid from the other pump, thereby providing better cooling and greater overall efficiency of all systems associated therewith. A method for providing artificial lift or pressure boosting of multiphase fluid is also disclosed.

Turbine fan system and method

A fan system of a turbine includes a fan mid shaft made of a coated steel material configured to extend along a center axis of a turbine. The fan mid shaft having an inner diameter surface. The fan system includes a dry film lubricant that is configured to be applied to at least a portion of the inner diameter surface of the fan mid shaft.

Gas turbine engine shaft with lobed support structure

An apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes a shaft base, a flange and a plurality of lobes. The shaft base extends axially along an axis between a shaft first end and a shaft second end. The flange is connected to the shaft base at the shaft first end. The flange projects radially out from the shaft base. The flange includes a plurality of fastener apertures, and the fastener apertures include a first fastener aperture. The lobes are arranged circumferentially about the axis. Each of the lobes is connected to and projects radially away from the shaft base. Each of the lobes is connected to and projects axially out from the flange. The lobes include a first lobe and a second lobe. The first fastener aperture is arranged circumferentially between the first lobe and the second lobe. The second lobe radially overlaps the first fastener aperture.

Turbomachine rotor

The invention concerns a turbomachine rotor (1), characterised in that it comprises a threaded or tapped part (3, 6) and a damping nut (8) screwed onto the threaded or tapped part (3, 6) so as to allow the threads of the nut (8) and of the threaded or tapped part (3, 6) to rub against each other in the event of vibration of the rotor (1).

Systems and methods for internal spline lubrication
11591963 · 2023-02-28 · ·

An aircraft engine, has: a shaft rotatable about a central axis and engaged at an end thereof to a rotatable load via splines; a reference tube extending around the shaft and having a first end secured to the shaft and a second end free relative to the shaft for measuring a deformation of the shaft, the reference tube defining at least one tube aperture; an oil nozzle defining an exit flow axis intersecting the at least one tube aperture, the shaft defining at least one shaft aperture through the shaft, an oil flow path extending from the oil nozzle to the splines; and a drain outlet located radially outwardly of an inlet of the at least one shaft aperture for outputting excess oil out of an annular gap defined between the shaft and the reference tube.

Midshaft rating for turbomachine engines

A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec).sup.1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec).sup.1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.

Drive shaft comprising a fusible section and method for protecting such a drive shaft against an overtorque

A drive shaft of an aircraft turbine engine includes a first portion and a second portion, and connecting means connecting the first and second portions and being configured to transmit a torque from the second portion to the first portion. The connecting means has at least one bellows with a first section having a diameter greater than the diameters of the first and second portions and second sections flanking the first section. The first section includes at least one fusible section with at least one through-hole and being configured to break when the value of a torque applied to the first portion exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Vacuum pump including levitated magnetic bearing
11808272 · 2023-11-07 · ·

A pressure difference of liquid is generated between an upper end and a lower end of a thread groove by the action of a thread groove pump formed between the thread groove and a lower end wall portion of a rotating rotor shaft. As a result, liquid of a bottom space is sucked up and passes through a hollow hole and is discharged to the outside of the rotor shaft through communication holes. The discharged liquid passes through the inside of a hub of a rotating body and reaches an extension member where it is sprayed radially in the form of droplets from a protrusion. The droplets are received by a partition wall. Due to the presence of a protrusion in an upper portion of the partition wall, the droplets cannot cross over the partition wall. The accumulated liquid drops through a communication hole to the bottom space.