Cooled turbine blade
CA 1075160 A · Owner: Westinghouse Electric Corporation · Inventors: Kothmann, Richard E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A water-cooled turbine rotor blade having an enlarged radially-extending chamber forming a coolant reservoir connected to cooling passages subadjacent the blade surface. The channels interconnecting the reservoir with the passages are adjacent the blade tip so that the pressurized water (i.e. due to the centrifugal force caused by the rotation) in the reservoir flows into the channels at the tip and thence through the cooling passages radially inwardly. Heat absorption from the blade causes vaporization of the water as it flows through the passages. The cooling passage terminate radially inwardly (adjacent the hub or root portion) in a space in flow communication with the enlarged chamber …
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- Granted April 8, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 8, 1997.
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