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EP2392774A1
EP2392774A1 EP10005822A EP10005822A EP2392774A1 EP 2392774 A1 EP2392774 A1 EP 2392774A1 EP 10005822 A EP10005822 A EP 10005822A EP 10005822 A EP10005822 A EP 10005822A EP 2392774 A1 EP2392774 A1 EP 2392774A1
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William Abdel-Messeh
Justin D. Piggush
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D5/00—Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
    • F01D5/12—Blades
    • F01D5/14—Form or construction
    • F01D5/18—Hollow blades, i.e. blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities; Heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades
    • F01D5/187—Convection cooling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22C—FOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C9/00—Moulds or cores; Moulding processes
    • B22C9/02—Sand moulds or like moulds for shaped castings
    • B22C9/04—Use of lost patterns
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22C—FOUNDRY MOULDING
    • B22C9/00—Moulds or cores; Moulding processes
    • B22C9/10—Cores; Manufacture or installation of cores
    • B22C9/103—Multipart cores
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01D—NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D5/00—Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
    • F01D5/12—Blades
    • F01D5/14—Form or construction
    • F01D5/18—Hollow blades, i.e. blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities; Heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades
    • F01D5/186—Film cooling

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  • This disclosure relates to a cooling passage for an airfoil.
  • Turbine blades are utilized in gas turbine engines.
  • a turbine blade typically includes a platform having a root on one side and an airfoil extending from the platform opposite the root. The root is secured to a turbine rotor.
  • Cooling circuits are formed within the airfoil to circulate cooling fluid, such as air.
  • multiple relatively large cooling channels extend radially from the root toward a tip of the airfoil. Air flows through the channels and cools the airfoil, which is relatively hot during operation of the gas turbine engine.
  • Some advanced cooling designs use one or more radial cooling passages that extend from the root toward the tip near a leading edge of the airfoil.
  • the cooling passages are arranged between the cooling channels and an exterior surface of the airfoil.
  • the cooling passages provide extremely high convective cooling.
  • Prior art leading edge cooling arrangements typically include two cooling approaches. First, internal impingement cooling is used, which produces high internal heat transfer rates. Second, showerhead film cooling is used to create a film on the external surface of the airfoil. Relatively large amounts of cooling flow are required, which tends to exit the airfoil at relatively cool temperatures. The heat that the cooling flow absorbs is relatively small since the cooling flow travels along short paths within the airfoil, resulting in cooling inefficiencies.
  • a cooling passage wrapped at the leading edge is a cooling passage wrapped at the leading edge.
  • This wrapped leading edge cooling passage is formed by a refractory metal core that is secured to another core.
  • the cores are placed in a mold, and a superalloy is cast into the mold about the cores to form the airfoil.
  • the cores are removed from the cast airfoil to provide the cooling passages.
  • the wrapped leading edge cooling passage does not provide the amount of desired cooling to the leading edge.
  • a turbine engine airfoil includes an airfoil structure having an exterior surface providing a leading edge.
  • a radially extending first cooling passage is arranged near the leading edge and includes first and second portions. The first portion extends to the exterior surface and forms a radially extending trench in the leading edge.
  • the second portion is in fluid communication with a second cooling passage.
  • the second cooling passage extends radially, and the first cooling passage wraps around a portion of the second cooling passage from a pressure side to a suction side between the second cooling passage and the exterior surface.
  • the first portion is arranged between the pressure and suction sides.
  • the first cooling passage is formed by arranging a core in an airfoil mold.
  • the trench is formed by the core in one example.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic view of a gas turbine engine incorporating the disclosed airfoil.
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view of the airfoil having the disclosed cooling passage.
  • Figure 3A is a cross-sectional view of a portion of the airfoil shown in Figure 2 and taken along 3A-3A.
  • Figure 3B is a perspective view of a core that provides the wrapped leading edge cooling passage shown in Figure 3A .
  • Figure 3C is a cross-sectional view of the airfoil shown in Figure 3A with the core removed from the airfoil and a trench formed in the leading edge.
  • Figure 4A is a partial cross-sectional view of another airfoil leading edge with another example core.
  • Figure 4B is a perspective view of the core shown in Figure 4A .
  • Figure 5A is a partial cross-sectional view of yet another airfoil leading edge with yet another example core.
  • Figure 5B is a perspective view of the core shown in Figure 5A .
  • Figure 5C is a front elevational view of the leading edge shown in Figure 5A .
  • Figure 6A is a partial cross-sectional view of still another airfoil leading edge with still another example core.
  • Figure 6B is a front elevational view of the leading edge shown in Figure 6A .
  • Figure 6C is a perspective view of a portion of the core shown in Figure 6A .
  • Figure 1 schematically illustrates a gas turbine engine 10 that includes a fan 14, a compressor section 16, a combustion section 18 and a turbine section 11, which are disposed about a central axis 12.
  • air compressed in the compressor section 16 is mixed with fuel that is burned in combustion section 18 and expanded in the turbine section 11.
  • the turbine section 11 includes, for example, rotors 13 and 15 that, in response to expansion of the burned fuel, rotate, which drives the compressor section 16 and fan 14.
  • the turbine section 11 includes alternating rows of blades 20 and static airfoils or vanes 19. It should be understood that Figure 1 is for illustrative purposes only and is in no way intended as a limitation on this disclosure or its application.
  • FIG. 2 An example blade 20 is shown in Figure 2 .
  • the blade 20 includes a platform 32 supported by a root 36, which is secured to a rotor.
  • An airfoil 34 extends radially outwardly from the platform 32 opposite the root 36. While the airfoil 34 is disclosed as being part of a turbine blade 20, it should be understood that the disclosed airfoil can also be used as a vane.
  • the airfoil 34 includes an exterior surface 57 extending in a chord-wise direction C from a leading edge 38 to a trailing edge 40.
  • the airfoil 34 extends between pressure and suction sides 42, 44 in a airfoil thickness direction T, which is generally perpendicular to the chord-wise direction C.
  • the airfoil 34 extends from the platform 32 in a radial direction R to an end portion or tip 33.
  • a cooling trench 48 is provided on the leading edge 38 to create a cooling film on the exterior surface 57. In the examples, the trench 48 is arranged in proximity to a stagnation line on the leading edge 38, which is an area in which there is little or no fluid flow over the leading edge.
  • FIG 3A schematically illustrates an airfoil molding process in which a mold 94 having mold halves 94A, 94B provides a mold contour that defines the exterior surface 57 of the airfoil 34.
  • cores 82 which may be ceramic, are arranged within the mold 94 to provide the cooling channels 50, 52, 54 ( Figure 3C ).
  • cores 82 which may be ceramic, are arranged within the mold 94 to provide the cooling channels 50, 52, 54 ( Figure 3C ).
  • multiple, relatively large radial cooling channels 50, 52, 54 are provided internally within the airfoil 34 to deliver airflow for cooling the airfoil.
  • the cooling channels 50, 52, 54 typically provide cooling air from the root 36 of the blade 20.
  • the airfoil 34 includes a first cooling passage 56 arranged near the leading edge 38.
  • the first cooling passage 56 is in fluid communication with the cooling channel 50, in the example shown.
  • One or more core structures 68 ( Figures 3A and 3B ), such as refractory metal cores, are arranged within the mold 94 and connected to the other cores 82.
  • the core structure 68 which is generally C-shaped, provides the first cooling passage 56 in the example disclosed.
  • the core structure 68 (shown in Figure 3B ) is stamped from a flat sheet of refractory metal material. The core structure 68 is then bent or shaped to a desired contour.
  • the ceramic core and/or refractory metal cores are removed from the airfoil 34 after the casting process by chemical or other means.
  • a core assembly can be provided in which a portion of the core structure 68 is received in a recess of the other core 82, as shown in Figure 3A .
  • the resultant first cooling passage 56 provided by the core structure 68 is in fluid communication with the cooling channel 50 subsequent to the airfoil casting process.
  • the core structure 68 includes a first portion 72 and a second portion.
  • the second portion includes multiple, radially spaced first and second sets of arcuate legs 74, 76 that wrap around a portion of the cooling channel 50.
  • the shape of the legs 74, 76 generally mirror the exterior surface 57 of the leading edge 38.
  • the first and second sets of legs 74, 76 are secured to the other core 82.
  • One set of legs 74 is arranged on the pressure side 42 and the other set of legs 76 is arranged on the suction side 44.
  • the first portion 72 does not extend to the exterior surface 57.
  • the trench 48 is formed by a chemical or mechanical machining process, for example, to fluidly connect the first portion 72 to the leading edge 38. Cooling fluid is provided from the first cooling channel 50 through the first cooling passage 56 to provide a cooling film on the leading edge 38 via the trench 48.
  • a core structure 168 is shown that provides the trench 48 during the casting process.
  • the first portion 172 extends beyond the exterior surface and into the mold 94 where the first portion 172 is held by a core retention feature 96, which is provided by a notch in the mold 94, for example.
  • a core retention feature 96 which is provided by a notch in the mold 94, for example.
  • the legs 174, 176 are at an angle or transverse laterally to the first portion 172.
  • the example core structure 168 provides first and second sets of legs 174, 176 on opposite sides and in radially spaced, alternating relationship from one another.
  • the first portion 172 extends in a direction opposite the other core 82.
  • the first cooling passage can be provided by multiple separate networks of passageways, as illustrated in Figures 5A and 5B .
  • the networks of passageways are formed with multiple core structures 86, 88 having first portions 272, 273 that are discrete from one another.
  • One of the cores structures 86 is arranged on the suction side 44 and the other core structure 88 is arranged on the pressure side 42.
  • the legs 274, 276 are only fluidly connected to one another through the cooling channel 50.
  • the first portions 272, 273 extend beyond the exterior surface 57 in the leading edge 238 and can be configured to provide laterally and/or radially staggered trenches 248 on the airfoil 234, as shown in Figure 5C .
  • the first cooling passage is provided by two networks of passageways created by core structures 186a, 186b, 188a, 188b provided on each of the pressure and suction sides 42, 44 of airfoil 334.
  • the core structures 186a, 186b, 188a, 188b respectively provide discrete first portions 273a, 273b, 272a, 272b that create trenches 348 in leading edge 338, shown in Figure 6B .

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