Failure of Impingement Cooling Plates in Gas Turbine Vanes | Schäden an Prallkühlblechen von Gasturbinenleitschaufeln

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-326
Author(s):  
A. Neidel ◽  
S. Riesenbeck ◽  
S. Wallich ◽  
V. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Turbine Vanes

Failure of Impingement Cooling Plates in Gas Turbine Vanes

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 421-433
Author(s):  
A. Neidel ◽  
S. Riesenbeck ◽  
S. Wallich
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Turbine Vanes

scholarly journals A New Test Facility for Testing of Cooled Gasturbine Components

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf R. Rådeklint ◽  
Christer S. Hjalmarsson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Operating Point ◽  
Ir Camera ◽  
Turbine Cooling ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Turbine Vanes ◽  
Conventional Instrumentation

A high pressure hot test facility for cooled gas turbine components has been developed for use in turbine cooling research. In this facility, heat transfer tests for a sector of real turbine vanes can be performed under continuous operation. The heat transfer tests are performed at an operating point that is scaled down from the real engine operating point. The compressor can deliver air at the rate of up to 10 kg/s at 20 bars. Air temperatures of up to 1170 K can be achieved by using an oil-fired combustor. Besides conventional instrumentation such as thermocouples and pressure probes, the facility is equipped with an IR-camera to map two-dimensional wall temperature fields. Hot wire anemometry and an LDV system are used to determine mean and fluctuating velocity components. This paper describes design and performance of the test facility as well as the control and measurement equipment. The test and evaluation procedures used for testing of cooled gas turbine vanes are also presented.

GT36 Turbine Aero-Thermal Development and Validation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Naik ◽  
J. Krueckels ◽  
M. Henze ◽  
W. Hofmann ◽  
M. Schnieder
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Thermal Design ◽  
Local Pressure ◽  
Cooling Systems ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Turbine Vanes ◽  
Thermal Development ◽  
Development And Validation

This paper describes the aero-thermal development and validation of the GT36 heavy duty gas turbine. The turbine which has evolved from the existing and proven GT26 design, consists of an optimised annulus flow path, higher lift aerofoil profiles, optimised aerodynamic matching between the turbine stages and new and improved cooling systems of the turbine vanes and blades. A major design feature of the turbine has been to control and reduce the aerodynamic losses, associated with the aerofoil profiles, trailing edges, blade tips, endwalls and coolant ejection. The advantages of these design changes to the overall gas turbine efficiency have been verified via extensive experimental testing in high-speed cascade test rigs and via the utilisation of high fidelity multi-row computational fluid dynamics design systems. The thermal design and cooling systems of the turbine vanes, blades have also been improved and optimised. For the first stage vane and blade aerofoils and platforms, multi-row film cooling with new and optimised diffuser cooling holes have been implemented and validated in high speed linear cascades. Additionally, the internal cooling design features of all the blades and vanes were also improved and optimised, which allowed for more homogenous metal temperatures distributions on the aerofoils. The verification and validation of the internal thermal designs of all the turbine components has been confirmed via extensive testing in dedicated Perspex models, where measurements were conducted for local pressure losses, overall flow distributions and local heat transfer coefficients. The turbine is currently being tested and undergoing validation in the GT36 Test Power Plant in Birr, Switzerland. The gas turbine is heavily instrumented with a wide range of validation instrumentation including thermocouples, pressure sensors, strain gauges and five-hole probes. In addition to performance mapping and operational validation, a dedicated thermal paint validation test will also be performed.

Field Evaluation of 2CaO-SiO2-CaO-ZrO2 Thermal Barrier Coating on Gas Turbine Vanes

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mifune ◽  
Y. Harada ◽  
H. Taira ◽  
S. Mishima
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Thermal Barrier Coating ◽  
Thermal Barrier Coatings ◽  
Field Evaluation ◽  
Thermal Barrier ◽  
Barrier Coatings ◽  
Thermal Change ◽  
Barrier Coating ◽  
Turbine Vanes ◽  
Higher Temperature

Abstract Higher-temperature operation in a gas turbine has urged development of heat-resistant coatings and thermal barrier coatings. We have developed a 2CaO-SiO2-CaO-ZrO2 based thermal barrier coating. This coating should effectively prevent separation of the coating by relieving the shear stress generated due to thermal change of environment between layers with dissimilar properties. The coating was applied to stationary vanes of an actual gas turbine in a 25,000-hour test. This paper describes the results of the field test.

Pulsed Impingement Turbine Cooling and its Effect on the Efficiency of Gas Turbines With Pressure Gain Combustion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Neumann ◽  
Dieter Peitsch ◽  
Arne Berthold ◽  
Frank Haucke ◽  
Panagiotis Stathopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Turbine Cooling ◽  
Pressure Gain Combustion ◽  
Cooling Air ◽  
Gas Turbine Cycle ◽  
Cycle Efficiency

Abstract Performance improvements of conventional gas turbines are becoming increasingly difficult and costly to achieve. Pressure Gain Combustion (PGC) has emerged as a promising technology in this respect, due to the higher thermal efficiency of the respective ideal gas turbine cycle. Previous cycle analyses considering turbine cooling methods have shown that the application of pressure gain combustion may require more turbine cooling air. This has a direct impact on the cycle efficiency and reduces the possible efficiency gain that can potentially be harvested from the new combustion technology. Novel cooling techniques could unlock an existing potential for a further increase in efficiency. Such a novel turbine cooling approach is the application of pulsed impingement jets inside the turbine blades. In the first part of this paper, results of pulsed impingement cooling experiments on a curved plate are presented. The potential of this novel cooling approach to increase the convective heat transfer in the inner side of turbine blades is quantified. The second part of this paper presents a gas turbine cycle analysis where the improved cooling approach is incorporated in the cooling air calculation. The effect of pulsed impingement cooling on the overall cycle efficiency is shown for both Joule and PGC cycles. In contrast to the authors’ anticipation, the results suggest that for relevant thermodynamic cycles pulsed impingement cooling increases the thermal efficiency of Joule cycles more significantly than it does in the case of PGC cycles. Thermal efficiency improvements of 1.0 p.p. for pure convective cooling and 0.5 p.p. for combined convective and film with TBC are observed for Joule cycles. But just up to 0.5 p.p. for pure convective cooling and 0.3 p.p. for combined convective and film cooling with TBC are recorded for PGC cycles.

Effects of Fluid Flow Characteristics and Heat Transfer of Integrated Impingement Cooling Structure for Micro Gas Turbine

CFD letters ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 104-115
Author(s):  
Hamidon Salleh ◽  
Amir Khalid ◽  
Syabillah Sulaiman ◽  
Bukhari Manshoor ◽  
Izzuddin Zaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Micro Gas Turbine ◽  
Fluid Flow Characteristics

Novel Gas Turbine Blade Leading Edge Cooling Configuration Using Advanced Double Swirl Chambers

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karsten Kusterer ◽  
Gang Lin ◽  
Takao Sugimoto ◽  
Dieter Bohn ◽  
Ryozo Tanaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Gas Turbine Blade ◽  
Stagnation Line ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Cooling Technology ◽  
Cooling Air ◽  
Blade Leading Edge

The Double Swirl Chambers (DSC) cooling technology, which has been introduced and developed by the authors, has the potential to be a promising cooling technology for further increase of gas turbine inlet temperature and thus improvement of the thermal efficiency. The DSC cooling technology establishes a significant enhancement of the local internal heat transfer due to the generation of two anti-rotating swirls. The reattachment of the swirl flows with the maximum velocity at the center of the chamber leads to a linear impingement effect on the internal surface of the blade leading edge nearby the stagnation line of gas turbine blade. Due to the existence of two swirls both the suction side and the pressure side of the blade near the leading edge can be very well cooled. In this work, several advanced DSC cooling configurations with a row of cooling air inlet holes have been investigated. Compared with the standard DSC cooling configuration the advanced ones have more suitable cross section profiles, which enables better accordance with the real blade leading edge profile. At the same time these configurations are also easier to be manufactured in a real blade. These new cooling configurations have been numerically compared with the state of the art leading edge impingement cooling configuration. With the same configuration of cooling air supply and boundary conditions the advanced DSC cooling presents 22–26% improvement of overall heat transfer and 3–4% lower total pressure drop. Along the stagnation line the new cooling configuration can generate twice the heat flux than the standard impingement cooling channel. The influence of spent flow in the impinging position and impingement heat transfer value is in the new cooling configurations much smaller, which leads to a much more uniform heat transfer distribution along the chamber axial direction.

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