Atmospheric particulate pollutants are prone to deposit in aero-engine turbines due to high-temperature and high-velocity gas flows. The resulting deposition changes the blade profile, leading to a degradation of aerodynamic performance, increase in surface roughness, and blockage of film cooling holes and internal cooling channels, which further reduces cooling performance of the blade. Therefore, the blades are easily ablated, especially for the rotating parts as they have high rotating speed. In present study, unsteady simulations on the effects of particle deposition were carried out by demonstrating the migration trajectories and deposition distributions of particles in turbine rotor passages of an aero-engine that operates at real engine conditions. The effects of rotating speed, blade tip clearance and its cavity depth on the deposition and migration of contaminant particulates were examined. Results reveal that the deposition on the blade surfaces varies with the rotating speeds and the rotor tip clearances. The deposits are mainly concentrated on the pressure side of the blade where multiple rebounds of the particles are observed under a cruise operating condition. At a larger tip clearance, more particles flow into the tip clearance due to stronger leakage flow, and the squealer tip increases the capture efficiency of the particles on the blade tip.
{"title":"Unsteady simulations of deposition in a rotor passage of the first-stage turbine for an aero-engine","authors":"Zihan Hao, Xing Yang, Xiangyu Wang, Z. Feng","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/150549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/150549","url":null,"abstract":"Atmospheric particulate pollutants are prone to deposit in aero-engine turbines due to high-temperature and high-velocity gas flows. The resulting deposition changes the blade profile, leading to a degradation of aerodynamic performance, increase in surface roughness, and blockage of film cooling holes and internal cooling channels, which further reduces cooling performance of the blade. Therefore, the blades are easily ablated, especially for the rotating parts as they have high rotating speed. In present study, unsteady simulations on the effects of particle deposition were carried out by demonstrating the migration trajectories and deposition distributions of particles in turbine rotor passages of an aero-engine that operates at real engine conditions. The effects of rotating speed, blade tip clearance and its cavity depth on the deposition and migration of contaminant particulates were examined. Results reveal that the deposition on the blade surfaces varies with the rotating speeds and the rotor tip clearances. The deposits are mainly concentrated on the pressure side of the blade where multiple rebounds of the particles are observed under a cruise operating condition. At a larger tip clearance, more particles flow into the tip clearance due to stronger leakage flow, and the squealer tip increases the capture efficiency of the particles on the blade tip.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47335694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oguzhan Murat, B. Rosic, Koichi Tanimoto, Ryo Egami
Since the renewable sources, which have gained great attention due to the low-carbon policies, are inherently intermittent, the conventional power generation systems will be in use to meet the power demand. These systems, however, must be capable of operating along with renewables, which will lead to a need for more operational flexibility with frequent system ramps. Therefore, understanding and control of thermal stresses and clearances are essential for improving flexibility of conventional power plants. Computational fluid dynamics tools are of great importance in predicting the turbomachinery flows design since the direct measurements of detailed and spatial flow and temperature distribution are often not trivial in the real engines. During shut-down regimes of steam turbines, natural convection takes place along with relatively weak forced convection which is not strong enough to prevent a rising thermal plume leading to a non-uniform cooling in the turbine cavities. Although natural and forced convection have been studied separately in the literature, mixed type of flows in turbine cavities have not been investigated extensively. This paper provides unique experimental data set for validation and development of the predictive tools, which is generated from the detailed flow field measurements in a test facility designed for mixed type of flows in the turbine casing cavities with engine representative conditions. Additionally, large eddy simulations have been performed and validated against the generated experimental data, to gain deeper insight into the flow field. Thus, this paper offers a great insight in these complex flow interactions and unique experimental data for enabling the flexible operations and the development of advanced turbulence modelling.
{"title":"Experimental and numerical investigations of mixed\u0000convection in turbine cavities for more flexible operations","authors":"Oguzhan Murat, B. Rosic, Koichi Tanimoto, Ryo Egami","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/150751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/150751","url":null,"abstract":"Since the renewable sources, which have gained great attention due to the low-carbon policies, are inherently intermittent, the conventional power generation systems will be in use to meet the power demand. These systems, however, must be capable of operating along with renewables, which will lead to a need for more operational flexibility with frequent system ramps. Therefore, understanding and control of thermal stresses and clearances are essential for improving flexibility of conventional power plants. Computational fluid dynamics tools are of great importance in predicting the turbomachinery flows design since the direct measurements of detailed and spatial flow and temperature distribution are often not trivial in the real engines. During shut-down regimes of steam turbines, natural convection takes place along with relatively weak forced convection which is not strong enough to prevent a rising thermal plume leading to a non-uniform cooling in the turbine cavities. Although natural and forced convection have been studied separately in the literature, mixed type of flows in turbine cavities have not been investigated extensively.\u0000\u0000This paper provides unique experimental data set for validation and development of the predictive tools, which is generated from the detailed flow field measurements in a test facility designed for mixed type of flows in the turbine casing cavities with engine representative conditions. Additionally, large eddy simulations have been performed and validated against the generated experimental data, to gain deeper insight into the flow field. Thus, this paper offers a great insight in these complex flow interactions and unique experimental data for enabling the flexible operations and the development of advanced turbulence modelling.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41457931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}