IP Library Granted Patent US 8,801,373
Granted Patent B2
US 8,801,373 · App. 12/825,525 · Granted Aug 12, 2014

High-reliability turbine metal sealing material

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Patent No.
US 8,801,373
App. No.
12/825,525
Granted
Aug 12, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.

Claims (12)

1. A turbine metal sealing material used in a sealing device for reducing a fluid leaking from a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine,

wherein the metal sealing material comprises a porous metal layer and the porous metal layer comprises a surface layer directly coming into contact with a working fluid and a lower layer lying thereunder,

wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer,

wherein the porous metal layer comprises, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and the MCrAlY alloy comprises 15% to 30% of Cr, 6 to 15% of Al and 0.3 to 1.0% of Y, the balance comprising either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and

wherein a thickness of the porous metal layer is in the range of 0.3 to 3.0 mm, and a ratio of the surface layer to the lower layer is in the range of 0.1 to 1.0.

2. The turbine metal sealing material according to claim 1 , wherein the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75%.

3. The turbine metal sealing material according to claim 1 , wherein the porous metal layer further comprises hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN).

4. A steam turbine comprising a sealing device for reducing a fluid leaking from a gap between a stator and a rotor of the turbine, a metal sealing material being used in the sealing device,

wherein the metal sealing material comprises a porous metal layer and the porous metal layer comprises a surface layer directly coming into contact with a working fluid and a lower layer lying thereunder,

wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer,

wherein the porous metal layer comprises, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and the MCrAlY alloy comprises 15% to 30% of Cr, 6 to 15% of Al and 0.3 to 1.0% of Y, the balance comprising either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and

wherein a thickness of the porous metal layer is in the range of 0.3 to 3.0 mm, and a ratio of the surface layer to the lower layer is in the range of 0.1 to 1.0.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 19, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033561/0029 →