A bearing structure includes: a rotation member including a plurality of extended portions extending radially outward from a shaft portion and arranged separated away from each other in an axial direction of the shaft portion; and a bearing member in which a counterface surface facing one of the plurality of extended portions in the axial direction is included in one or a plurality of main bodies.

Provided are a turbine rotor fixing device capable of easily fixing a turbine rotor in a radial direction and an axial direction, and a shipping method of a turbine module. A fixing device (30) of a turbine rotor (11) includes a radial direction fixing jig (32) provided in a gland part (21A) that seals a clearance between the turbine rotor (11) and a turbine casing disposed to cover a periphery of the turbine rotor (11), to fix relative movement of the turbine rotor (11) to the gland part (21A) in a radial direction, and an axial direction fixing jig (31) provided between the turbine rotor (11) and the gland part (21A), to fix relative movement of the turbine rotor (11) to the gland part (21A) in an axis (X) direction.

A method of operating a gas turbine engine in a multi-engine aircraft, the gas turbine engine having an engine shaft mounted for rotation in a bearing and a gearbox connected to the engine shaft for torque transmission therebetween, includes axially preloading the bearing using an axially biasing element disposed between the gas turbine engine and the gearbox. The axially biasing element reacts against the gearbox to exert an axial preload force on the bearing and the engine shaft of the gas turbine engine.

Shaft stability is enhanced and reliability is improved. In a gas turbine power generation system of an embodiment, a pressurizing unit, a rotation control unit, a diaphragm coupling, a turbine, and a generator are disposed to line up sequentially on the same shaft. A thrust bearing is provided between the turbine and the generator. The turbine is configured such that a working medium flows from the diaphragm coupling side toward the rotation control unit side.

Described herein is a shaft seal system of a shaft supported in a bearing housing of a turbomachine. The shaft seal system includes a rotor-side seal arranged between the bearing housing and the shaft. Additionally, the shaft seal system includes an axial bearing supporting the shaft. Further, a gap is provided between a rotor-side thrust bearing surface of the axial bearing and an opposite surface of the shaft. A gap width of the gap is adjustable as a function of rotation speed of the shaft.

Aspects of the invention disclosed herein generally provide a heat engine system, a turbopump system, and methods for lubricating a turbopump while generating energy. The systems and methods provide proper lubrication and cooling to turbomachinery components by controlling pressures applied to a thrust bearing in the turbopump. The applied pressure on the thrust bearing may be controlled by a turbopump back-pressure regulator valve adjusted to maintain proper pressures within bearing pockets disposed on two opposing surfaces of the thrust bearing. Pocket pressure ratios, such as a turbine-side pocket pressure ratio (P1) and a pump-side pocket pressure ratio (P2), may be monitored and adjusted by a process control system. In order to prevent damage to the thrust bearing, the systems and methods may utilize advanced control theory of sliding mode, the multi-variables of the pocket pressure ratios P1 and P2, and regulating the bearing fluid to maintain a supercritical state.

A bearing device includes a rotary part which is configured to be rotatable about a rotational axis and has a rotary surface intersecting the rotational axis, and a stationary part which has a stationary surface facing the rotary surface. One of the rotary surface or the stationary surface includes a bearing surface part for forming a bearing oil film. The rotary surface includes a first inner circumferential region, and a first outer circumferential region facing the stationary surface on a radially outer side of the bearing surface part and having higher oleophobicity than the first inner circumferential region.

An expansion turbine configured such that even when pressure of process gas steeply changes, the amount of process gas leaking from a gap between an impeller and a cover is made small. The expansion turbine includes a gas supply passage which is connected to any one of a gas supply passage and a gas discharge passage and through which gas is supplied to a region located between a rotor member and a casing member.

A thrust foil bearing 40 having a thrust bearing surface S formed by arranging a plurality of leaves 42 side by side in a circumferential direction, in which each of the leaves 42 has a top foil portion Tf that forms the thrust bearing surface S, and a ratio of a circumferential length A of the top foil portion Tf of one of the leaves 42 at a radially central position of the top foil portion Tf, to a radial length B from an inner diameter-side edge 423 to an outer diameter-side edge 424 of the top foil portion Tf is 0.66 or less.

A clearance adjusting apparatus to move a thrust bearing of a gas turbine back and forth to adjust a tip clearance of a turbine is provided. The clearance adjusting apparatus includes an adjusting plate disposed to move forward from or rearward to a reference surface, a biasing cylinder disposed to selectively move the adjusting plate back and forth, a stopper disposed to be moved toward the adjusting plate after being moved forward to prevent a rearward movement of the adjusting plate, a position sensor disposed to measure a distance from the reference surface to the adjusting plate, and a controller configured to receive information about measurements from the position sensor and control an operation of the stopper and the biasing cylinder based on the received information.