Turbine inter-disk cavity cooling air compressor
Abstract
A combustion turbine may have a cooling circuit for directing a cooling medium through the combustion turbine to cool various components of the combustion turbine. This cooling circuit may include a compressor, a combustor shell and a component of the combustion turbine to be cooled. This component may be a rotating blade of the combustion turbine. A pressure changing mechanism is disposed in the combustion turbine between the component to be cooled and the combustor shell. The cooling medium preferably flows from the compressor to the combustor shell, through a cooler, the component to the cooled and the pressure changing mechanism. After flowing through the pressure changing mechanism, the cooling medium is returned to the combustor shell. The pressure changing mechanism preferably changes the pressure of the cooling medium from a pressure at which it is exhausted from the component to be cooled to approximately that of the combustor shell.
- Inventors:
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- Oviedo, FL
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 873667
- Patent Number(s):
- 6217280
- Assignee:
- Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Orlando, FL)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F01 - MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL F01D - NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC21-93MC30247
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- turbine; inter-disk; cavity; cooling; air; compressor; combustion; circuit; directing; medium; cool; various; components; combustor; shell; component; cooled; rotating; blade; pressure; changing; mechanism; disposed; preferably; flows; cooler; flowing; returned; changes; exhausted; approximately; rotating blade; cooling air; combustion turbine; cooling medium; various components; cooling circuit; inter-disk cavity; air compressor; cavity cooling; turbine inter-disk; various component; /415/60/416/
Citation Formats
Little, David Allen. Turbine inter-disk cavity cooling air compressor. United States: N. p., 2001.
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Little, David Allen. Turbine inter-disk cavity cooling air compressor. United States.
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"Turbine inter-disk cavity cooling air compressor". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/873667.
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title = {Turbine inter-disk cavity cooling air compressor},
author = {Little, David Allen},
abstractNote = {A combustion turbine may have a cooling circuit for directing a cooling medium through the combustion turbine to cool various components of the combustion turbine. This cooling circuit may include a compressor, a combustor shell and a component of the combustion turbine to be cooled. This component may be a rotating blade of the combustion turbine. A pressure changing mechanism is disposed in the combustion turbine between the component to be cooled and the combustor shell. The cooling medium preferably flows from the compressor to the combustor shell, through a cooler, the component to the cooled and the pressure changing mechanism. After flowing through the pressure changing mechanism, the cooling medium is returned to the combustor shell. The pressure changing mechanism preferably changes the pressure of the cooling medium from a pressure at which it is exhausted from the component to be cooled to approximately that of the combustor shell.},
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