IP Library Granted Patent US 10,208,765
Granted Patent B2
US 10,208,765 · App. 15/000,224 · Granted Feb 19, 2019

Gas turbine axial compressor

Inventors: Tobias Froebel (Siegertsbrunn, DE); Sebastian Mann (Munich, DE); Nina Wolfrum (Feldkirchen, DE); Sergio Elorza Gomez (Munich, DE)
Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
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Patent No.
US 10,208,765
App. No.
15/000,224
Granted
Feb 19, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to an axial compressor for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft engine, having at least one rotor blade or guide vane having a blade or vane element, which is arranged in a flow duct, and a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are joined to each other through a pressure side and a suction side, wherein, a new and novel profile section of the blade or vane element is provided.

Claims (26)

1. An axial compressor for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft engine, having at least one rotor blade or guide vane having a blade or vane element, which is arranged in the flow duct, and a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are joined to each other through a pressure side and a suction side, wherein,

in each profile section of the blade or vane element in a range between 5% and 95% of a radial blade or vane element height from a blade or vane element root to a blade or vane tip,

a profile skeletal line has at most two points of inflection;

a metal angle at the leading edge lies in a range between 20° and 75°;

a metal angle at the trailing edge lies in a range between −20° and 70° and is at most equal to the metal angle at the leading edge; and

a stacking angle lies in a range between 0° and 70°;

and wherein

a local or absolute minimum of a front load angle, which is equal to the difference obtained from the arithmetic mean of the metal angles at the leading edge and trailing edge as minuend and the stacking angle as subtrahend

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lies in a range between 55% and 85% of the radial blade or vane element height; and a local or absolute maximum of the front load angle lies in a range between 95% and 100% of the radial blade or vane element height at a blade or vane tip.

2. The axial compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the front load angle decreases monotonically in the radial direction in a range between 50% of the radial blade or vane element height and the absolute minimum of the front load angle.

3. The axial compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the front load angle increases strictly monotonically in the radial direction starting from the absolute minimum of the front load angle up to a maximum nearest to the blade or vane tip of the front load angle.

4. The axial compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a maximum of the front load angle that is nearest to the blade or vane tip is greater than the arithmetic mean value of the front load angle over a range of 0% to 40% of the radial blade or vane element height.

5. The axial compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the axial compressor is in a gas turbine where the axial compressor is a furthest upstream, furthest downstream, or in between, one-stage or multistage axial compressor.

6. The axial compressor according to claim 5 , wherein the gas turbine is in an aircraft engine.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 20, 2016
From: FROEBEL, TOBIAS; MANN, SEBASTIAN; WOLFRUM, NINA; GOMEZ, SERGIO ELORZA
To: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
Reel/Frame 037528/0723 →
Priority Claims (2)
EP 15152865 · Jan 28, 2015 · regional
EP 15181650 · Aug 20, 2015 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160215788A1 · Jul 28, 2016