Heat pipe turbine vane cooling
- Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
The applicability of using heat pipe principles to cool gas turbine vanes is addressed in this beginning program. This innovative concept involves fitting out the vane interior as a heat pipe and extending the vane into an adjacent heat sink, thus transferring the vane incident heat transfer through the heat pipe to heat sink. This design provides an extremely high heat transfer rate and an uniform temperature along the vane due to the internal change of phase of the heat pipe working fluid. Furthermore, this technology can also eliminate hot spots at the vane leading and trailing edges and increase the vane life by preventing thermal fatigue cracking. There is also the possibility of requiring no bleed air from the compressor, and therefore eliminating engine performance losses resulting from the diversion of compressor discharge air. Significant improvement in gas turbine performance can be achieved by using heat pipe technology in place of conventional air cooled vanes. A detailed numerical analysis of a heat pipe vane will be made and an experimental model will be designed in the first year of this new program.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC), WV (United States); USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Industrial Technologies
- OSTI ID:
- 269475
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/METC-96/1023-Vol.2; CONF-9510109-Vol.2; ON: DE96000562; TRN: 96:002470-0026
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Advanced turbine systems (ATS) annual review, Morgantown, WV (United States), 17-18 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the Advanced Turbine Systems Annual Program Review meeting. Volume 2; PB: 412 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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