The present disclosure provides methods, assemblies, and systems for power production that can allow for increased efficiency and lower cost components arising from the control, reduction, or elimination of turbine blade mechanical erosion by particulates or chemical erosion by gases in a combustion product flow. The methods, assemblies, and systems can include the use of turbine blades that operate with a blade velocity that is significantly reduced in relation to conventional turbines used in typical power production systems. The methods and systems also can make use of a recycled circulating fluid for transpiration protection of the turbine and/or other components. Further, recycled circulating fluid may be employed to provide cleaning materials to the turbine.

A combustor has a structure enabling selective control of the amount of air supplied to the liner and the transition piece and includes a liner having one end connected to a fuel injector, the liner comprising an inner liner surrounded by an outer liner having a first opening that is elongated in a circumferential direction of the outer liner and is configured to introduce cooling air into an annular space between the inner liner and the outer liner; a liner sliding cover configured to adjust an opening degree of the first opening; and a transition piece connected at one end to the other end of the liner and connected to a turbine at the other end, the transition piece having an effusion hole configured to supply cooling air to a combustion chamber, the effusion hole having an opening area that is less than the opening degree of the first opening.

The present disclosure provides methods, assemblies, and systems for power production that can allow for increased efficiency and lower cost components arising from the control, reduction, or elimination of turbine blade mechanical erosion by particulates or chemical erosion by gases in a combustion product flow. The methods, assemblies, and systems can include the use of turbine blades that operate with a blade velocity that is significantly reduced in relation to conventional turbines used in typical power production systems. The methods and systems also can make use of a recycled circulating fluid for transpiration protection of the turbine and/or other components. Further, recycled circulating fluid may be employed to provide cleaning materials to the turbine.

A transpirational cooling panel comprises a porous ceramic matrix composite layer and a porous high-temperature fabric layer. A machined ceramic fiber batting is located between the porous ceramic matrix composite layer and the porous high-temperature fabric layer. A ceramic stitching joins the porous ceramic matrix composite layer and the porous high-temperature fabric layer through the machined ceramic fiber batting.

A turbine blade ring segment includes an inner panel mounted to an inner surface of a turbine casing, the inner panel including a plurality of flow holes for supplying cooling air from an outside of the turbine casing; and an outer panel disposed on one surface of the inner panel, the outer panel including a plurality of air passages communicating with the flow holes formed in the inner panel. The passages include a first flow passage formed in a central portion of the outer panel to guide the supplied cooling air in a flow direction of the combustion gas, a second flow passage formed in the outer panel separately from the first flow passage to guide the supplied cooling air in the flow direction of the combustion gas, and a third flow passage communicating with the second flow passage to feed the supplied cooling air to the second flow passage.

A combustor may include a combustor shell, a particle collection panel, and a combustor panel. The combustor shell may define a plurality of first impingement holes, the particle collection panel may include a plurality of particle collection chambers and may define a plurality of second impingement holes, and the combustor panel may define a plurality of effusion holes. The particle collection panel may be disposed inward of the combustor shell and the combustor panel may be disposed inward of the particle collection panel. Each particle collection chamber may have a closed inward end and an opening defined in an outward end. The particle collection chambers may be configured to entrap particulates.

An apparatus and method of cooling an airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes a tip for the radially outer end of the airfoil with internal ribs defining cooling circuits within an interior of the airfoil. The ribs can be full-length, extending between a root and tip of the airfoil. A gap can be formed in the full-length ribs near the tip to form a thermal stress reduction structure for the full-length rib.

A blade outer air seal segment assembly includes a blade outer air seal segment configured to connect with an adjacent blade outer air seal segment to form part of a rotor shroud. A cooling channel is disposed in the first turbine blade outer air seal segment. The cooling channel extends at least partially between a first circumferential end portion and a second circumferential end portion. At least one inlet aperture provides a cooling airflow to the cooling channel. A series of trip strips in the cooling channel cause turbulence in the cooling airflow. The trip strips include at least one chevron shaped trip strip having a first and second leg joined at an apex arranged adjacent the inlet aperture. The trip strips also include at least one trip strip having a single skewed line.

A turbine blade has a blade tip, a cooling structure with cooling channels which are designed to have cooling fluid passed through them in order to cool the turbine blade during operation, an end section at a lower level than that of the blade tip, and an outer wall section extending up to the blade tip. The cooling structure is formed between the end section and the blade tip. A method produces a cooling structure of this type.

An annular turbine engine combustion chamber wall including air admission orifices to create zones of steep temperature gradient, and cooling orifices to enable the air flowing on the cold side to penetrate to the hot side in order to form a film of cooling air along the annular wall, the annular wall being further includes, in the zones of steep temperature gradient, multi-perforation holes having respective bends of an angle greater than 90, the angle being measured between an inlet axis Ae and an outlet axis As of the multi-perforation hole, the outlet axis of the multi-perforation hole being inclined at an angle 3 relative to the normal N to the annular wall through which the multi-perforation holes with bends are formed, in a gyration direction that is at most perpendicular to the axial flow direction D of the combustion gas.