IP Library Granted Patent US 8,616,843
Granted Patent B2
US 8,616,843 · App. 12/907,126 · Granted Dec 31, 2013

Turbo machinery

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Patent No.
US 8,616,843
App. No.
12/907,126
Granted
Dec 31, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Turbo machinery comprising an impeller and a diffuser positioned on a downstream side of the impeller that a channel wall surface of the diffuser is composed of a pair of a shroud side diffuser plate and a hub side diffuser plate which surface each other and a channel width is formed so as to be increased downstream, characterized in that guide vanes in a circular arc shape lower in height than the channel width are installed in a line of a plurality of vanes on both channel walls of the shroud side diffuser plate and hub side diffuser plate of the diffuser, and a total of vane heights of the two guide vanes at an outlet of the diffuser is set so as to be within a range from 30 to 70% of the channel width at the outlet of the diffuser.

Claims (14)

1. Turbo machinery comprising an impeller and a diffuser positioned on a downstream side of the impeller, a channel wall surface of the diffuser being composed of a pair of a shroud side diffuser plate and a hub side diffuser plate which surface each other and a channel width is formed so as to be increased downstream,

characterized in that

guide vanes in a circular arc shape lower in height than the channel width are installed in a line of a plurality of vanes on both channel walls of the shroud side diffuser plate and hub side diffuser plate of the diffuser, and a total of vane heights of the two guide vanes at an outlet of the diffuser is set so as to be within a range from 30 to 70% of the channel width at the outlet of the diffuser, and

assuming an inclination angle of the channel wall surface of the shroud side diffuser plate in a radial direction as θ s , a vane inlet angle of the guide vane installed on the wall surface of the shroud side diffuser plate in a peripheral direction at the inlet as β s, in , an inclination angle of the channel wall surface of the hub side diffuser plate in the radial direction as θ h , and a vane inlet angle of the guide vane installed on the wall surface of the hub side diffuser plate in the peripheral direction at the inlet β h, in , respectively, said four angles set conform to a following formula (1),

β s in −β h in =K (θ s −θ h ) 0   (1)

and K of the formula (1) is set so as to conform to a relation of K<0.

2. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein K is set as 1≦|K|≦2.

3. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein a vane outlet angle of a vane angle measured in the peripheral direction of the vane installed in the diffuser is structured so as to be smaller than a vane inlet angle.

4. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein the machinery is structured so as to conform to 6≦θ s +θ h ≦12.

5. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein the machinery is structured so as to conform to the inclination angle θ s =0 or the inclination angle θ h =0.

6. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the vanes is formed so as to be perpendicular to the wall surfaces of the shroud side diffuser plate and the hub side diffuser plate.

7. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein a leading edge of the vane installed on the wall surface of the shroud side diffuser plate and a leading edge of the vane installed on the wall surface of the hub side diffuser plate are arranged by shifting their positions in the peripheral direction.

8. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein a leading edge of the vane installed on the wall surface of the shroud side diffuser plate and a leading edge of the vane installed on the wall surface of the hub side diffuser plate are positioned inside by 1.05 times of an tip diameter of the impeller on an inner peripheral side.

9. The turbo machinery according to claim 1 , wherein a camber line of the vane is composed of a circular arc.

Assignments (1)
MERGER Recorded Jan 13, 2014
From: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
To: HITACHI, LTD.
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