Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shrouded turbine airfoil with leakage flow conditioner
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Application No.: US15552982Application Date: 2015-03-17
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Publication No.: US10053993B2Publication Date: 2018-08-21
- Inventor: Kok-Mun Tham , Ching-Pang Lee , Li Shing Wong , Andrew S. Lohaus , Farzad Taremi
- Applicant: Siemens Energy, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US FL Orlando
- Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Orlando
- International Application: PCT/US2015/020907 WO 20150317
- International Announcement: WO2016/148694 WO 20160922
- Main IPC: F01D5/22
- IPC: F01D5/22

Abstract:
A shrouded turbine airfoil (10) with a leakage flow conditioner (12) configured to direct leakage flow to be aligned with main hot gas flow is disclosed. The leakage flow conditioner (12) may be positioned on a radially outer surface (18) of an outer shroud base (20) of the outer shroud (22) on a tip (24) of an airfoil (10). The leakage flow conditioner (12) may include a radially outer surface (28) that is positioned further radially inward than the radially outer surface (18) of the outer shroud base (20) creating a radially outward extending wall surface (30) that serves to redirect leakage flow. In at least one embodiment, the radially outward extending wall surface (30) may be aligned with a pressure side (38) of the shrouded turbine airfoil (10) to increase the efficiency of a turbine engine by redirecting leakage flow to be aligned with main hot gas flow to reduce aerodynamic loss upon re-introduction to the main gas flow.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180030838A1 SHROUDED TURBINE AIRFOIL WITH LEAKAGE FLOW CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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