A turbo machine of the present disclosure includes a rotation shaft, a first bearing, a casing, an impeller, a first space, a second space, a storage tank, a first outlet passage, a supply passage, a pump, a main passage, and a sub-passage. The second space is in communication with a space formed between a bearing surface of the first bearing and an outer surface of the rotation shaft. The main passage is in communication with the second space and extends in the rotation shaft from an end of the rotation shaft in an axial direction of the rotation shaft. The sub-passage is formed in the rotation shaft and allows communication between the space between the bearing surface of the first bearing and the outer surface of the rotation shaft and the main passage.

A gas turbine engine including: an exhaust diffuser including an inner tube and an outer tube that form therebetween an annular exhaust passage; a bearing chamber formed radially inside the inner tube for accommodating a bearing that supports a rotor of a turbine; a plurality of hollow struts extending across the exhaust passage; an oil introduction passage extending through one of the struts for introducing oil to be supplied to the bearing chamber; an oil drain passage extending through one of the struts for draining the oil from an exhaust oil inlet opened on a bottom surface of the bearing chamber; and an oil discharge passage for discharging a portion of the oil having passed through the oil introduction passage toward the oil drain inlet.

A turbocharger includes: a bearing; a bearing wall portion having a bearing hole in which the bearing is arranged; a separation wall portion, which is provided on a radially outer side of the bearing hole with respect to the bearing wall portion, and forms an internal space with the bearing wall portion; an oil discharge port, which is formed in the separation wall portion, and communicates with the internal space; and a guide portion, which is provided to the bearing wall portion facing the internal space, and separates away from the oil discharge port in a direction of a plane perpendicular to a center axis of the bearing as approaching the oil discharge port in a direction of the center axis.

A rotor assembly includes a plurality of rotor disks that each have a rim portion. The plurality of rotor disks includes a first rotor disk and at least one first bleed air passage that extends through a forward rim portion of the first rotor disk. At least one second bleed air passage that extends through an aft rim portion of the first rotor disk.

The disclosure concerns a gland condenser skid system comprising a direct contact heat exchanger as gland condenser, configured to collect and condensate steam coming from a steam turbine sealing system, wherein the steam turbine sealing system is provided with an air buffering seal device, separating steam turbine shaft lubricating oil system from the steam turbine sealing system.

A steam turbine system includes: a steam turbine having a casing into which steam is fed from an outside of the casing and a rotating shaft that is provided within the casing so as to be rotatable around a central axis; a deaerator that is connected to the steam turbine and that deaerates leaked steam that has leaked from a gap between the casing and the rotating shaft to the outside of the casing; a vacuum pump that is connected to the deaerator and that lowers a pressure within the deaerator; and a shaft sealing device that is connected to the deaerator and that seals the gap between the casing and the rotating shaft. The shaft sealing device has a seal member having a seal body, a housing, a biasing member, and a negative-pressure introduction part.

A turbine shaft comprising: a tubular body having an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface, the inner surface defining a hollow chamber within the tubular body, wherein the tubular body includes a first longitudinal axis concentric to the tubular body; and one or more shielded elliptical orifices, at least one shielded elliptical orifice comprising: an elliptical orifice in the tubular body including a major axis extending from a first side to a second side of the elliptical orifice, wherein the major axis is oriented at an angle parallel with a torque field of the tubular body; a first shielding orifice in the tubular body having a first axis collinear to the major axis; and a second shielding orifice in the tubular body having a second axis collinear to the major axis, wherein the elliptical orifice is located in between the first and second shielding orifice.

Oil transfer tube for a system to control the regulation of a turbine engine propeller pitch, in particular of an aircraft, the tube being intended to be mounted coaxially inside a tubular shaft of the propeller, the tube having an elongated shape and including a first male longitudinal end part intended to be inserted in a female housing of a stator casing equipped with an oil supply circuit of the tube, and a second male longitudinal end part around which is intended to be mounted a hydrodynamic bearing to guide the tube in the shaft, wherein the first end part includes a free annular end with a convex rounded cross-section intended to bear axially against an annular bottom of said housing, and in that said second end part comprises an outer axial annular bearing surface of an inner ring of the bearing, the annular bearing surface presenting in cross-section a convex curved shape.

An apparatus and method of reducing a flow of fluid and heat between a first space and a second space in a rotatable machine and an integral seal and heat shield device are provided. The device includes an annular flange configured to couple to the rotating member of the rotatable machine and a multi-walled seal shield member extending axially from the flange. The multi-walled seal shield member is formed integrally with the flange. The seal shield member includes a first wall including a plurality of surface features, a second wall spaced radially inwardly with respect to the first wall, and a cavity formed between the first and second walls. The integral seal and heat shield device also includes a cap end integrally formed and configured to seal the first and second walls. Each of the flange, the seal shield member, and the cap end are formed of a sintered metal.

A turbine shaft comprising: a tubular body having an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface, the inner surface defining a hollow chamber within the tubular body, wherein the tubular body includes a first longitudinal axis concentric to the tubular body; and one or more shielded elliptical orifices, at least one shielded elliptical orifice comprising: an elliptical orifice in the tubular body including a major axis extending from a first side to a second side of the elliptical orifice, wherein the major axis is oriented at an angle parallel with a torque field of the tubular body; a first shielding orifice in the tubular body having a first axis collinear to the major axis; and a second shielding orifice in the tubular body having a second axis collinear to the major axis, wherein the elliptical orifice is located in between the first and second shielding orifice.