IP Library Granted Patent US 12,221,900
Granted Patent B2
US 12,221,900 · App. 18/096,129 · Granted Feb 11, 2025

Stationary turbine blade and steam turbine

Inventors: Chongfei Duan (Tokyo, JP); Shunsuke Mizumi (Tokyo, JP); Soichiro Tabata (Yokohama, JP); Koji Ishibashi (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
F01D9/02F01D25/24F05D2240/14
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Patent No.
US 12,221,900
App. No.
18/096,129
Granted
Feb 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This stationary turbine blade comprises: a stationary blade main body extending in the radial direction intersecting the flow direction of steam; a hydrophilic region which is formed on the surface of the stationary blade main body and which has a higher hydrophilicity than the other parts and has the radial dimension gradually increasing toward the downstream side in the flow direction; and a collecting portion which is provided on the downstream side of the hydrophilic region and which collects a liquid film flowing along the hydrophilic region.

Claims (31)

1. A turbine stator blade comprising:

a stator blade body extending in a radial direction intersecting a flow direction of steam;

a hydrophilic region that is formed on a surface of the stator blade body that has a higher hydrophilicity than other portions, and that has a radial dimension gradually increasing from an upstream side of the stator blade body toward a downstream side of the stator blade body in the flow direction;

a plurality of water-repellent regions provided on a portion of the surface of the stator blade body, each water-repellent region having a higher water repellency than the hydrophilic region; and

a collecting portion provided on a downstream side of the hydrophilic region and that collects a liquid film flowing along the hydrophilic region,

wherein the hydrophilic region is arranged between a pair of adjacent water-repellent regions of the plurality of water-repellent regions with respect to the radial direction.

2. The turbine stator blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hydrophilic region is one of a plurality of hydrophilic regions arranged in the radial direction, each hydrophilic region being arranged between a respective pair of adjacent water-repellent regions of the plurality of water-repellent regions with respect to the radial direction.

3. The turbine stator blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hydrophilic region extends from a leading edge of the stator blade body to the collecting portion.

4. The turbine stator blade according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a separation zone that extends from a position downstream of a leading edge of the stator blade body in the hydrophilic region toward the downstream side to partition the hydrophilic region into a plurality of regions.

5. The turbine stator blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein the collecting portion is a slit that is formed on the downstream side of the stator blade body, extends along a trailing edge of the stator blade body, and communicates with an inside of the stator blade body.

6. The turbine stator blade according to claim 5 ,

wherein the hydrophilic region is one of a plurality of hydrophilic regions arranged in the radial direction, each hydrophilic region being arranged between a respective pair of adjacent water-repellent regions of the plurality of water-repellent regions with respect to the radial direction, and

at an upstream-side end edge of the slit, the plurality of hydrophilic regions are continuous.

7. The turbine stator blade according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an outer ring provided on an outer peripheral side of the stator blade body,

wherein the collecting portion is an inner peripheral surface of the outer ring.

8. The turbine stator blade according to claim 7 ,

wherein the hydrophilic region extends radially outward from an upstream side toward the downstream side, and is connected to the inner peripheral surface of the outer ring.

9. The turbine stator blade according to claim 8 ,

wherein the hydrophilic region has

a first region extending toward the inner peripheral surface of the outer ring, and

a second region that is formed on an inner peripheral side of the first region and that extends radially inward from the upstream side toward the downstream side.

10. A steam turbine comprising:

a rotating shaft that is rotatable around an axis;

a plurality of turbine rotor blades arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft in a circumferential direction with respect to a direction of the axis;

a casing body that covers the rotating shaft and the plurality of turbine rotor blades from an outer peripheral side; and

a plurality of the turbine stator blades according to claim 1 , which are arranged on an inner peripheral surface of the casing body in the circumferential direction with respect to the axis and which are provided adjacent to the turbine rotor blades in the direction of the axis.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE DOCKET NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 062361 FRAME: 0358. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jan 26, 2023
From: DUAN, CHONGFEI; MIZUMI, SHUNSUKE; TABATA, SOICHIRO; ISHIBASHI, KOJI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 062514/0951 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 12, 2023
From: DUAN, CHONGFEI; MIZUMI, SHUNSUKE; TABATA, SOICHIRO; ISHIBASHI, KOJI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 062361/0358 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-136246 · Aug 12, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2021025171 · Jul 2, 2021
Related Publication 20230167746A1 · Jun 1, 2023
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