Low pressure cooling seal system for a gas turbine engine
A low pressure cooling system for a turbine engine for directing cooling fluids at low pressure, such as at ambient pressure, through at least one cooling fluid supply channel and into a cooling fluid mixing chamber positioned immediately downstream from a row of turbine blades extending radially outward from a rotor assembly to prevent ingestion of hot gases into internal aspects of the rotor assembly. The low pressure cooling system may also include at least one bleed channel that may extend through the rotor assembly and exhaust cooling fluids into the cooling fluid mixing chamber to seal a gap between rotational turbine blades and a downstream, stationary turbine component. Use of ambient pressure cooling fluids by the low pressure cooling system results in tremendous efficiencies by eliminating the need for pressurized cooling fluids for sealing this gap.
- Research Organization:
- Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC26-05NT42644
- Assignee:
- Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,684,666
- Application Number:
- 13/084,618
- OSTI ID:
- 1129078
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2011 Apr 12
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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