Device for controlling clearance in a gas turbine
View Patent ↗The turbine casing includes a circumferential wall coaxially surrounding a ring that surrounds the moving blades of the turbine. The casing includes a plurality of perforations delivering air for ventilating the outside face of the circumferential wall in uniform manner.
1. A casing for a turbine, comprising:
a support for securing a ring surrounding moving blades of said turbine, said support comprising a circumferential wall coaxially surrounding said ring, said casing including a plurality of perforations enabling air coming systematically from a stage of a compressor to be delivered to a ventilation chamber, and the chamber is configured to allow the air to ventilate an outside face of said circumferential wall in a uniform manner,
wherein said plurality of perforations are formed through a wall of said casing that extends radially inwards, said wall substantially enclosing the ventilation chamber that is also defined by an inside face of said casing and by the outside face of said circumferential wall of said support, said chamber including a small opening between a radial rib of the support and the inside face of the radial wall for exhausting the air from the chamber.
2. The casing according to claim 1 , wherein said perforations are constituted by a plurality of same-sized holes formed through the radially inwardly-extending wall of said casing and spaced apart regularly around a circumference.
3. The casing according to claim 2 , wherein a center axis of each of the plurality of same-sized holes is circumferentially inclined relative to an axis of rotation of said turbine at an angle having a range from 30 degrees to 60 degrees to impart rotary motion to the air.
4. The casing according to claim 3 , wherein said angle is 45 degrees.
5. A turbine comprising the casing according to claim 1 .
6. A turbomachine comprising the turbine according to claim 5 .
7. The casing according to claim 1 , wherein the circumferential wall is configured to create a uniform tip clearance between tips of the moving blades of said turbine and the ring when the outside face of said circumferential wall is ventilated in the uniform manner.
8. The casing according to claim 1 , wherein the casing is configured to exhaust the air from the ventilation chamber in a path which avoids contact with the ring.
9. The casing according to claim 1 , wherein the circumferential wall is solid without openings.
10. The casing according to claim 1 , wherein the casing further comprises:
a second chamber disposed between the ventilation chamber and the ring, and the air does not pass from the ventilation chamber to the second chamber.