Cooling arrangement for a tapered turbine blade

Patent · Tue Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1012763

Liang, George ^[1]

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1. Palm City, FL

A cooling arrangement (11) for a highly tapered gas turbine blade (10). The cooling arrangement (11) includes a pair of parallel triple-pass serpentine cooling circuits (80,82) formed in an inner radial portion (50) of the blade, and a respective pair of single radial channel cooling circuits (84,86) formed in an outer radial portion (52) of the blade (10), with each single radial channel receiving the cooling fluid discharged from a respective one of the triple-pass serpentine cooling circuit. The cooling arrangement advantageously provides a higher degree of cooling to the most highly stressed radially inner portion of the blade, while providing a lower degree of cooling to the less highly stressed radially outer portion of the blade. The cooling arrangement can be implemented with known casting techniques, thereby facilitating its use on highly tapered, highly twisted Row 4 industrial gas turbine blades that could not be cooled with prior art cooling arrangements.

• Research Organization: Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FC26-05NT42644
• Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
• Patent Number(s): 7,762,774
• Application Number: 11/639,961
• OSTI ID: 1012763
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English