Turbine blade squealer tip rail with fence members
A turbine blade includes an airfoil, a blade tip section, a squealer tip rail, and a plurality of chordally spaced fence members. The blade tip section includes a blade tip floor located at an end of the airfoil distal from the root. The blade tip floor includes a pressure side and a suction side joined together at chordally spaced apart leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. The squealer tip rail extends radially outwardly from the blade tip floor adjacent to the suction side and extends from a first location adjacent to the airfoil trailing edge to a second location adjacent to the airfoil leading edge. The fence members are located between the airfoil leading and trailing edges and extend radially outwardly from the blade tip floor and axially from the squealer tip rail toward the pressure side.
- Research Organization:
- Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC26-05NT42644
- Assignee:
- Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,313,287
- Application Number:
- 12/486,249
- OSTI ID:
- 1080315
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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