IP Library Granted Patent US 6,877,324
Granted Patent B2
US 6,877,324 · App. 10/411,099 · Granted Apr 12, 2005

Gas turbine, gas turbine apparatus, and refrigerant collection method for gas turbine moving blades

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Patent No.
US 6,877,324
App. No.
10/411,099
Granted
Apr 12, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbine rotor includes a plurality of moving blades having cooling paths through which a refrigerant flows inside, a plurality of wheels having the moving blades mounted in the outer periphery thereof and at least one spacer member installed between the wheels. The spacer member has a plurality of flow paths through which a refrigerant flows after cooling the moving blades. The plurality of flow paths have flow paths interconnecting to the cooling paths in the moving blades on a first wheel adjacent the spacer member and interconnecting to a space formed on a side wall surface with which a second wheel adjacent the spacer member and the spacer member are in contact.

Claims (9)

1. A turbine rotor including a plurality of moving blades having cooling paths through which a refrigerant flows inside, a plurality of wheels having said moving blades mounted in the outer periphery thereof, and at least a spacer member installed between said wheels, wherein

said spacer member has a plurality of flow paths through which a refrigerant flows, and

said plurality of flow paths have flow paths installed independently at respective outlets of said cooling paths in said moving blades on a first wheel adjacent said spacer member so as to be interconnected to said cooling paths, which allow cooling flow downstream by interconnecting to a downstream space formed on a side wall surface with which a second wheel adjacent said spacer member and said spacer member are in contact.

2. A turbine rotor including a plurality of moving blades having cooling paths through which a refrigerant flows inside, a plurality of wheels having said moving blades mounted in the outer periphery thereof, and at least a spacer member installed between said wheels, wherein

said spacer member has a plurality of flow paths through which a refrigerant flows,

said plurality of flow paths have first flow paths installed independently at respective outlets of said cooling paths in said moving blades on a first wheel and a side of said spacer member on a downstream second wheel side so as to be interconnected to said cooling paths, and

said second flow paths installed independently at respective outlets of said cooling paths in said moving blades on a second wheel and a side of said spacer member on a first wheel side so as to be interconnected to said cooling paths, and wherein

interconnecting portions of said first flow paths to said side of said spacer member on the second wheel side are positioned downstream of interconnecting portions of said second flow paths to said side of said spacer member on the first wheel side, with respect to a gas flow direction.

3. A gas turbine comprising a turbine rotor including a plurality of moving blades having cooling paths through which a refrigerant flows inside, a plurality of wheels having said moving blades in the outer periphery, and at least a spacer member installed between neighboring wheels, wherein said spacer member has a plurality of flow paths through which a refrigerant flows and said plurality of flow paths have first flow paths and second flow paths, said first flow paths installed independently at respective outlets of said cooling paths installed in said moving blades on a first wheel neighboring with said spacer member so as to be interconnected to said cooling paths and interconnecting to a first space formed on the side wall surface with which a second wheel neighboring with said spacer member and said spacer member are in contact, said second flow paths installed independently at respective outlets of said cooling paths installed in said moving blades on the second wheel so as to be interconnect to said cooling paths and interconnecting to a second space formed on the side wall surface with which said first wheel and said spacer member are in contact.

Assignments (2)
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 8, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033917/0209 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 22, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033003/0648 →