IP Library Granted Patent US 10,782,025
Granted Patent B2
US 10,782,025 · App. 15/758,480 · Granted Sep 22, 2020

Combustor pipe, combustor, and gas turbine

Inventors: Shin Kato (Kanagawa, JP); Taiki Kinoshita (Kanagawa, JP); Shingo Sato (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,782,025
App. No.
15/758,480
Granted
Sep 22, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A combustor pipe is linked to a vane shroud in which a vane is provided, and includes an inlet, an outlet, an inner pipe of which an inner space is a flow path for passing a combustion gas, a first cooling flow path through which a cooling medium passes being formed inside a wall that forms the flow path; and an outer pipe on an outer circumference of the inner pipe and secured to the inner pipe. A second cooling flow path through which a cooling medium passes and which is connected to the first cooling flow path near the outlet of the combustor pipe is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the inner pipe and an inner circumferential surface of the outer pipe, and a cooling promoting structure is formed on the outer pipe, inside the second cooling flow path near the first cooling flow path.

Claims (25)

1. A combustor pipe comprising:

an inner pipe having an inner space forming a combustion gas flow path for guiding a combustion gas, the inner pipe including a wall with a first cooling flow path through which a cooling medium passes formed therein, the wall forming the combustion gas flow path having an inlet and an outlet;

an outer pipe on an outer circumference of the inner pipe and secured to the inner pipe;

a flange on an end of the inner pipe at the outlet of the combustion gas flow path, the flange extending radially outward with respect to a combustion gas flow direction;

a second cooling flow path through which the cooling medium passes, the second cooling flow path communicating with the first cooling flow path at the outlet of the combustion gas flow path and being formed between an outer circumferential surface of the inner pipe and an inner circumferential surface of the outer pipe, and

a cooling promoter in the outer pipe at the flange on the end of the inner pipe to which the outer pipe is secured, the cooling promoter being inside the second cooling flow path near the first cooling flow path.

2. The combustor pipe according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling promoter has an uneven shape such that a distance from the inner pipe changes based on position.

3. The combustor pipe according to claim 2 , wherein at least part of protruding parts of the uneven shape of the cooling promoter is in contact with the inner pipe.

4. The combustor pipe according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling promoter is a plurality of through holes through which the cooling medium passes.

5. The combustor pipe according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling promoter is formed at a side of the outer pipe located farther on a rotational axis side of the gas turbine than the inner pipe.

6. The combustor pipe according to claim 5 , wherein:

the end at the outlet of the combustion gas flow path is linked to a vane shroud in which a vane is located, and

the cooling promoter is formed in at least one location within a positional range that includes a position overlapping an upstream end of the vane with respect to a rotational direction of a gas turbine rotor.

7. The combustor pipe according to claim 5 , wherein:

the end at the outlet of the combustion gas flow path is linked to a vane shroud in which a vane is located, and

the cooling promoter is located in a positional range of ⅓P or greater and 3P or less, with P being a pitch of the vanes in a rotational direction of a gas turbine rotor.

8. The combustor pipe according to claim 1 , wherein:

the end at the outlet of the combustion gas flow path is linked to a vane shroud in which a vane is located, and

the combustor pipe further comprising a welded part at which an end of the vane shroud side of the outer pipe is welded to an end of the flange.

9. The combustor pipe according to claim 8 , wherein the welded part connects a surface of the flange on a side opposite the vane shroud to the outer pipe.

10. A combustor comprising the combustor pipe according to claim 1 .

11. A gas turbine comprising:

a compressor;

the combustor according to claim 10 for burning fuel and air compressed by the compressor to generate combustion gas; and

a turbine driven by the combustion gas supplied from the 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 Mar 8, 2018
From: KATO, SHIN; KINOSHITA, TAIKI; SATO, SHINGO
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045147/0146 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-181927 · Sep 15, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180259185A1 · Sep 13, 2018