F05D2260/201

GAS TURBINE HAVING AN ANNULAR PASSAGE SUBDIVIDED INTO ANNULUS SECTORS

A gas turbine having at least one inner and outer housing part, between which two housing parts a ring channel is at least partially arranged, which ring channel circumferentially surrounds the useful flow of the working fluid prevailing during operation of the gas turbine and circumferentially surrounds the gas turbine rotor. The ring channel is designed to conduct a cooling fluid in the circumferential direction, wherein the ring channel is divided into ring sectors in the circumferential direction by separators. A tube is at least partially provided in the ring channel which fluidically connects individual ring sectors to each other, and is designed as a distributing tube, which is fluidically connected to at least one cooling-fluid line for conducting cooling fluid and has at least one outlet opening, which at least one outlet opening is designed to transfer the cooling fluid from the tube into the ring sectors.

COOLING CONCEPT FOR TURBINE BLADES OR VANES
20170234144 · 2017-08-17 · ·

A turbine assembly with a hollow aerofoil having a main cavity with an impingement tube, insertable inside the main cavity for impingement cooling of an inner surface of the main cavity, and a platform at a radial end of the hollow aerofoil, and a cooling chamber for cooling the platform arranged relative to the hollow aerofoil on an opposed site of the platform. The cooling chamber is limited at a first radial end by a wall segment of the platform and at an opposed radial second end from a cover plate. The impingement tube extends in span wise direction through the cooling chamber from the platform to the cover plate and restricts a sub-cavity of the main cavity. The wall segment includes an entry aperture for a cooling medium to enter from the cooling chamber of the platform into the sub-cavity of the hollow aerofoil.

AIR SHREDDER INSERT
20170234151 · 2017-08-17 ·

An engine component assembly includes at least one cavity that is in communication with a source of cooling air. An insert disposed within the cavity includes a plurality of scoops protruding into a flow of cooling air for directing cooling air through the insert and against an inner surface of the cavity.

COMBUSTOR ASSEMBLY
20170234538 · 2017-08-17 · ·

Provided is a combustor assembly. The combust assembly includes: a plurality of swirlers through which a first fluid that is a part of a fluid discharged from a compressor passes; a base portion, in which the plurality of swirlers are provided, comprising a first through hole formed between one swirler and another swirler from among the plurality of swirlers so that a second fluid that is another part of the fluid discharged from the compressor and different from the first fluid passes through the first through hole; and a deflector provided in the base portion so as to face the first through hole for changing a moving direction of the second fluid.

Device for cooling a turbomachine housing

A cooling device for an annular casing of a turbomachine includes a collector housing having ejection openings in a radially inner part of the collector housing facing the annular casing and at least two cooling tubes extending circumferentially from the collector housing and having election openings in a radially inner part of the tubes facing the annular casing. The collector housing having an air passage formed by a radial groove extending radially from a radially inner end of the collector housing to a radially outer end of the collector housing and an axial groove extending from a first axial end to a second axial end of the collector housing.

IMPINGEMENT HOLES FOR A TURBINE ENGINE COMPONENT
20170234139 · 2017-08-17 ·

An apparatus for an impingement hole for an engine component of a gas turbine engine includes an impingement baffle. The impingement baffle is spaced from an impingement surface and includes a plurality of impingement holes for providing an impingement flow to the impingement surface. The impingement holes can have an angled upstream edge such that an inlet has a greater cross-sectional area than an outlet. The walls of the impingement holes can have a hood to provide a higher shear flow content to minimize dust accumulation on the impingement surface.

Thermal Stress Relief Of A Component
20170234150 · 2017-08-17 ·

A component for a gas turbine engine includes a hot side wall, a plurality of connection walls, and a cold side wall. The hot side wall is exposed to a core air flowpath defined by the gas turbine engine. The cold side wall is spaced from the hot side wall and rigidly connected to the hot side wall through the plurality of connection walls. The hot side wall, connection walls, and cold side wall together define a cooling air cavity. The cold side wall defines a thermal stress relief slot for at least partially accommodating a relative thermal expansion between the hot side wall and the cold side wall to reduce an amount of thermal stress within the component during operation of the component.

AIRFOIL HAVING CROSSOVER HOLES
20170234141 · 2017-08-17 ·

An airfoil for a turbine engine having first and second radially extending cooling chambers separated by a radially extending rib in which rows of crossover holes pass through the rib and fluidly coupling the first and second chambers.

AIRFOIL HAVING IMPINGEMENT OPENINGS

An airfoil for a turbine engine having a perimeter wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, a radially extending rib located within the interior and spaced from the leading edge to define a radially extending leading edge chamber, and at least one impingement opening in the rib defining a flow path aligned with the leading edge.

Turbine stator vane with closed-loop sequential impingement cooling insert
20170234154 · 2017-08-17 ·

A turbine stator vane with a closed loop sequential impingement cooling circuit with an impingement cooling insert that includes a three-pass serpentine flow cooling circuit, where each leg of the circuit includes a cooling air supply channel and a return channel with rows of impingement cooling holes and rows of return openings connecting them together. Turn channels are located at the outer diameter and the inner diameter of the vane to direct cooling air from the first leg and into the second and third legs in series. Impingement holes are formed on impingement surfaces that alternate with return slots formed in the insert.