IP Library Granted Patent US 10,352,244
Granted Patent B2
US 10,352,244 · App. 15/306,423 · Granted Jul 16, 2019

Combustor cooling structure

Inventors: Yoshiaki Yamaguchi (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Mizukami (Tokyo, JP); Tomoyuki Hirata (Tokyo, JP); Junichiro Masada (Tokyo, JP); Tetsu Konishi (Tokyo, JP); Kazumasa Takata (Tokyo, JP); Hiroyuki Yamazaki (Sendai, JP); Takuya Suzuki (Sendai, JP); Shinya Ishikawa (Miyagi-gun, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,352,244
App. No.
15/306,423
Granted
Jul 16, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gas turbine combustor comprising a plurality of cooling air passages ( 27 A) through which bled pressurized air flows from downstream of a combustion gas flow toward upstream, the plurality of cooling air passages ( 27 A) being disposed in a wall portion ( 26 ) side by side and aligned in a flow direction of a combustion gas; wherein the plurality of cooling air passages ( 27 A) are divided via a passage transition groove portion ( 33 ) into upstream cooling air passages ( 27 A 1 ) disposed closer to bled pressurized air inlet holes ( 30 a ) and downstream cooling air passages ( 27 A 2 ) disposed closer to bled pressurized air outlet holes ( 30 b ), and center lines (C 1 ) of the upstream cooling air passages are non-collinear with center lines (C 2 ) of the downstream cooling air passages.

Claims (14)

1. A gas turbine combustor comprising:

a cooling medium inlet portion disposed on a combustion gas downstream side of an annular wall portion, a combustion gas flow being formable inside the annular wall portion;

a plurality of cooling medium passages connected to the cooling medium inlet portion, the plurality of cooling medium passages being disposed inside the annular wall portion side by side and aligned in a flow direction of the combustion gas;

a cooling medium outlet portion connected to the plurality of cooling medium passages, the cooling medium outlet portion being disposed on a combustion gas upstream side of the wall portion; wherein

the plurality of cooling medium passages are fluidly connected and divided via a passage transition groove portion into upstream cooling medium passages disposed closer to the cooling medium inlet portion and downstream cooling medium passages disposed closer to the cooling medium outlet portion; and

center lines of the upstream cooling medium passages are non-collinear with center lines of the downstream cooling medium passages.

2. The gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the center lines of the upstream cooling medium passages and the center lines of the downstream cooling medium passages have a uniform pitch.

3. The gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein

the upstream cooling medium passages and the downstream cooling medium passages have identical passage widths, and

each of the center lines of the downstream cooling medium passages is collinear with a midline equidistant from the center lines of adjacent upstream cooling medium passages.

4. A gas turbine comprising:

the gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 ;

a compressor that supplies compressed air to the gas turbine combustor; and

a turbine that is driven in rotation by the combustion gas flow from the gas turbine combustor.

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 Nov 23, 2016
From: YAMAGUCHI, YOSHIAKI; MIZUKAMI, SATOSHI; HIRATA, TOMOYUKI; MASADA, JUNICHIRO; KONISHI, TETSU; TAKATA, KAZUMASA; YAMAZAKI, HIROYUKI; SUZUKI, TAKUYA; ISHIKAWA, SHINYA
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 040412/0907 →
Continuity (1)
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