Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling system for a turbine airfoil provided with pedestals having an ice-cream-cone-shape or teardrop-shape.SOLUTION: The turbine airfoil includes a wall portion, a cooling channel, a plurality of trip strips and a plurality of pedestals. The wall portion includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a positive pressure side and a negative pressure side. The cooling channel is for receiving cooling air and extends radially through an interior of the wall portion between the pressure side and the suction side. The plurality of trip strips line the wall portion inside the cooling channel along the pressure side and the suction side. Each of the pedestals is an elongate, tapered pedestal having a curved leading edge. The plurality of pedestals is interposed within the trip strips and connects the pressure side with the suction side.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, a casting system is provided which broadly comprises a core (10) and a wax die (12) spaced from said core (10), a refractory metal core (14) having a first end seated within a slot (18) in the core (10) and a second end contacting the wax die (12) for positioning the core (10) relative to the wax die (12), and the refractory metal core having at least one of a mechanism for providing spring loading when closed in the wax die and a mechanism for mechanically locking the wax die to the core. The spring loading mechanism may comprise one or more spring tabs (20). The locking mechanism may comprise an end (32) of the refractory metal core (14') engaging a slot (34) in the wax die (12') (Fig 2).
Abstract:
One embodiment includes a method to regenerate a component. The method includes additively manufacturing the component with at least a portion of the component in a near finished shape. The component is encased in a shell mold, the shell mold is cured, the encased component is placed in a furnace and the component is melted, the component is solidified in the shell mold, and the shell mold is removed from the solidified component.
Abstract:
A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine includes inner and outer platforms joined by a radially extending airfoil. The airfoil includes leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface. The inner and outer platforms respectively include inner and outer sets of film cooling holes. One of the inner and outer sets of film cooling holes are formed in substantial conformance with platform cooling hole locations described by one of the sets of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Tables 1 and 2. The Cartesian coordinates are provided by an axial coordinate, a circumferential coordinate, and a radial coordinate, relative to a zero-coordinate. The cooling holes with Cartesian coordinates in Tables 1 and 2 have a diametrical surface tolerance relative to the specified coordinates of 0.200 inches (5.08 mm).
Abstract:
A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine includes inner and outer platforms joined by a radially extending airfoil. The airfoil includes leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface. The airfoil includes an airfoil cooling passage. A platform cooling passage is arranged within at least one of the inner and outer platforms. The platform cooling passage includes multiple cooling regions with one of the cooling regions arranged beneath the airfoil cooling passage.
Abstract:
An airfoil assembly has at least one cooling hole in an aft edge of at least one platform for cooling at least one of an axially downstream airfoil root and/or tip region. The airfoil assembly may be a high pressure turbine first stage vane coupled with a combustor operating at a low Pattern Factor.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine component includes a structure having an exterior surface. A cooling hole extends from a cooling passage to the exterior surface to provide an exit area on the exterior surface that is substantially circular in shape. A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a turbine section. A combustor is provided between the compressor and turbine sections. A component in at least one of the compressor and turbine sections has an exterior surface. A film cooling hole extends from a cooling passage to the exterior surface to provide an exit area that is substantially circular in shape. A method of machining a film cooling hole includes providing a component having an internal cooling passage and an exterior surface, machining a film cooling hole from the exterior surface to the internal cooling passage to provide a substantially circular exit area on the exterior surface.
Abstract:
A turbine engine stator vane is provided that rotates about an axis, and includes an airfoil, a flange and a shaft. The airfoil extends axially between a first airfoil end and a second airfoil end. The airfoil includes a concave side surface, a convex side surface and a cavity. The concave and the convex side surfaces extend between an airfoil leading edge and an airfoil trailing edge. The cavity extends axially into the airfoil from a cavity inlet in an end surface at the second airfoil end. The flange is connected to the second airfoil end. The flange extends circumferentially around at least a portion of the cavity inlet, and radially away from the concave and the convex side surfaces to a distal flange edge. The shaft extends along the axis, and is connected to the second airfoil end.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, a casting system is provided which broadly comprises a core (10) and a wax die (12) spaced from said core (10), a refractory metal core (14) having a first end seated within a slot (18) in the core (10) and a second end contacting the wax die (12) for positioning the core (10) relative to the wax die (12), and the refractory metal core having at least one of a mechanism for providing spring loading when closed in the wax die and a mechanism for mechanically locking the wax die to the core. The spring loading mechanism may comprise one or more spring tabs (20). The locking mechanism may comprise an end (32) of the refractory metal core (14') engaging a slot (34) in the wax die (12') (Fig 2).
Abstract:
A sacrificial core for forming an interior space of a part includes a cerami c core element and a first core element including a refractory metal element. The ceramic core element may be molded over the first core element or molded with assembly features permitting assembly with the first core element.