Steam turbine

Inventors: Susumu Nakano (Yokohama, JP); Koji Ishibashi (Yokohama, JP); Shunsuke Mizumi (Yokohama, JP); Masaki Matsuda (Yokohama, JP); Takeshi Kudo (Yokohama, JP)

Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.

F01D5/28 F01D5/147 F01D25/32 F05D2240/122

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Patent No.: US 11,203,941
App. No.: 17/016,602
Granted: Dec 21, 2021
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A stationary blade includes a main unit having a hollow blade structure formed from a metal plate by plastic forming. The stationary blade includes a blade tail section. In a blade tail upper portion, the metal plate has a concave-shaped recess and a rib formed on an inner surface side thereof, and the metal plate further has slits formed by slitting on a blade pressure side thereof, so that droplets affixed on a blade surface can be guided into an inside of the hollow blade when the blade tail section is joined to the hollow blade main unit. The recess in the metal plate is covered so as to be lidded by a suction-side protrusion of a suction-side metal plate from a blade suction side to thereby form a hollow blade tail section. The metal plates are welded together to the main unit.

Claims (36)

1. A stationary blade of a steam turbine having a slit in a wall surface thereof, the slit guiding a droplet affixed to the wall surface into an inside of the stationary blade, wherein the stationary blade comprises:

a main unit having a hollow blade structure formed from a metal plate by plastic forming; and

a blade tail section formed of a blade suction-side metal plate overlapping a blade pressure-side metal plate, the blade pressure-side metal plate having a recess covered by a part of the main unit formed only in a blade tail upper portion only in a blade tail upper portion on a side adjacent to the blade suction-side metal plate,

and wherein the slit is disposed at a position at which the recess in the blade pressure-side metal plate of the blade tail section is disposed.

2. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the blade tail section has the blade tail upper portion having the recess and a blade tail lower portion formed of a solid member.

3. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the recess has a rib disposed therein.

4. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 2 , wherein the recess has a rib disposed therein.

5. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the part of the main unit is a protrusion at a position at which the main unit is joined to the recess in the blade pressure-side metal plate.

6. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 2 , wherein the part of the main unit is a protrusion at a position at which the main unit is joined to the recess in the blade pressure-side metal plate.

7. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 3 , wherein the part of the main unit is a protrusion at a position at which the main unit is joined to the recess in the blade pressure-side metal plate.

8. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 4 , wherein the part of the main unit is a protrusion at a position at which the main unit is joined to the recess in the blade pressure-side metal plate.

9. The stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the slit is one of a first slit and a second slit, and, when a distance measured from an airfoil leading edge end along the blade surface to the position of any point in the blade surface is 1 and a distance measured from the airfoil leading edge end along the blade surface to a trailing edge end is L, the first slit is disposed within the range 1/L=0.65 to 0.75 and the second slit is disposed in the range 1/L=0.75 to 0.9.

10. A steam turbine comprising:

a turbine stage comprising the stationary blade of a steam turbine according to claim 1 , and