ALTHOUGH numerous papers and lectures presented to the Royal Aeronautical Society have mentioned the upward trend in turbine inlet gas temperatures, there has been no review of the status of blade cooling technology since 1956, when Ainley's classic paper ‘The High Temperature Turbo-jet’ was published. Accordingly it is the aim of this paper to present such a review. Before doing so it is worth while to compare the engine situation today with what it was in 1956. At that time, much of the available experience in the U.K. on air cooled turbines was based on experimental units, designed for the express purpose of measuring blade temperatures under controlled conditions of cooling airflow and high gas temperature. These research turbines had also yielded some useful preliminary data on the aerodynamic effects of cooling air discharge and on thermal stress and creep problems. Some engine experience had been attained, mainly (in the U.K.) with engines such as the Avon, Conway and Tyne. Whereas many of the research turbine and cascade blades had fairly complex patterns of relatively small cooling passages, the blades which had been submitted to engine running usually had a few comparatively large passages. Rotating blades were made exclusively by forging and extrusion processes from wrought nickel-base alloys. Some nozzle guide vanes were cast.


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    Title :

    Advances in Engine Technology: Cooled Turbines


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1969-10-01


    Size :

    4 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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