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US 10,801,514 · App. 16/266,371 · Granted Oct 13, 2020

Impeller wheel and centrifugal compressor having impeller wheel

Inventors: Teng Cao (Cambridge, GB); Isao Tomita (Tokyo, JP); Liping Xu (Cambridge, GB); Tadashi Kanzaka (London, GB)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,801,514
App. No.
16/266,371
Granted
Oct 13, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An impeller wheel according to an embodiment includes a hub, a plurality of long blades disposed on a circumferential surface of the hub, the plurality of long blades extending from an inlet portion to an outlet portion of fluid and a plurality of short blades each disposed on the circumferential surface of the hub, the plurality of short blades extending from a downstream side of leading edges of the plurality of the long blades to the outlet portion in a flow passage formed between adjacent long blades of the plurality of long blades. In the impeller wheel, an expression β 2s,full <β 2s,spl is satisfied, where β 2s,full and β 2s,spl are respectively blade angles on tip side edges of the plurality of long blades and the plurality of short blades at the outlet portion.

Claims (20)

1. An impeller wheel comprising:

a hub;

a plurality of long blades disposed on a circumferential surface of the hub, the plurality of long blades extending from an inlet portion to an outlet portion of fluid; and

a plurality of short blades each disposed on the circumferential surface of the hub, the plurality of short blades extending from a downstream side of leading edges of the plurality of the long blades to the outlet portion in a flow passage formed between adjacent long blades of the plurality of long blades,

wherein an expression β 2s,full <β 2s,spl is satisfied, where β 2s,full and β 2s,spl are respectively blade angles on tip side edges of each long blade and each short blade at the outlet portion.

2. The impeller wheel according to claim 1 ,

wherein an expression β 2s,spl −β 2s,full ≥5° is satisfied.

3. The impeller wheel according to claim 1 ,

wherein an expression β s,full <β s,spl is satisfied over an entire length of each short blade,

where β s,full and β s,spl are respectively blade angles on the tip side edges of each long blade and the short blade at the same position when the impeller wheel is viewed from a meridian plane direction.

4. The impeller wheel according to claim 1 , wherein an expression β 2h,spl −β 2h,full ≥5° is satisfied where β 2h,full and β 2h,spl are respectively blade angles on hub side edges of each long blade and each short blade at the outlet portion.

5. The impeller wheel according to claim 4 ,

wherein an expression β s,spl,m=mLE −β s,full,m=mLE ≥5° is satisfied, where β s,full,m=mLE and β s,spl,m=mLE are respectively blade angles on the tip side edges of each long blade and each short blade at a position of a leading edge of the short blade when the impeller wheel is viewed from a meridian plane direction.

6. The impeller wheel according to claim 5 ,

wherein the leading edge of each short blade includes a first portion and a second portion positioned radially outward from the first portion, and

wherein an expression θ 1 >θ 2 is satisfied, where θ 1 is an acute angle between a direction in which the first portion extends and a rotational axis of the impeller wheel when viewed from a meridian plane, and θ 2 is an acute angle between a direction in which the second portion extends and the rotational axis of the impeller wheel when viewed from the meridian plane.

7. The impeller wheel according to claim 4 ,

wherein an expression β h,full,m=mLE >β h,spl,m=mLE is satisfied, where β h,full,m=mLE and β h,spl,m=mLE are respectively blade angles on the hub side edges of each long blade and each short blade at a position of a leading edge of the short blade when the impeller wheel is viewed from a meridian plane direction.

8. A centrifugal compressor comprising:

the impeller wheel according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2019
From: CAO, TENG; TOMITA, ISAO; XU, LIPING; KANZAKA, TADASHI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 048230/0085 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-038627 · Mar 5, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190271326A1 · Sep 5, 2019
Cited By (1)
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