Mohammad I 2011
Mohammad I 2011
AJK-Fluids2011
July 24-29, 2011, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, JAPAN
AJK2011-0
ABSTRACT force from expanding and accelerating of the gas within the
The process of reverse designing of gas turbine based on passes among blades. For that reason the most important
thermodynamic relations has been studied in this paper. ingredients of the turbine are its blades. In addition to many
Reverse designing is the process of perceiving and recognizing other factors, as better as possible operation of the turbine
technical principles of a system through its structure and depends on a uniform gas flow within the blades. From this
performance. This designing has been carried out by viewpoint, the importance of the blade profile will be very
mathematics and thermodynamic relations. The height and the evident. Thus, the carried out reviews, show that the proportion
exit angle of the fluid obtained from the rotor blade and gas of the thickness to the length of the chord has much influence
turbine nozzle, has been optimized in comparison with existing on the received tensions on the blade and for this reason finding
sample and the result from this optimizing, is increasing the gas an optimum ratio will lead to decrease of the failures arising
turbine power and output. The entire processes of designing, is from received tensions on the blade and increase of its firmness
carried out by a software code written in Matlab, and the results which will cause to decrease the costs arising from repairs and
of thermodynamic analysis are obtained in the form of pressure exchange of these sensitive and costly components and will
distribution, velocity and temperature. The optimized profiles also decrease the damages to other various parts of the turbine.
of different stages of turbines are illustrated in the software In this paper the reverse engineering designing process of the
output. The results from designed process, has an acceptable turbine was considered so that, by comparing solutions
conformity with existing gas turbine in power station industries. resulting from theory and what exists in a real typical gas
These results can be used for upgrading the turbine efficiency turbine, an optimized blade rotor and nozzle regarding
and consequently for increasing the power station efficiency. dimensions and fluid exit angle would be obtained.
Key words: gas turbine, blade height, output power optimizing, In the next section a CFD analysis based on finite volume
pressure and velocity distribution, CFD analysis. method (FVM) is presented by using the real operational
conditions of the turbine. Complicated geometry, high
INTRODUCTION temperature gas flow and high rotating velocity in gas turbines
Upgrading the production efficiency is one of the major are such major factors which cause the complicacy of the fluid
sections in electricity industries. Nowadays making use of gas flow analysis in the turbines. Since in gas turbines the moving
turbines in different industries such as generating electricity due blades due to rotation with high rotational velocity have been
to adaptability in consuming fuel, feasible mixed cycle and exposed to different tensions such as centrifuge tensions, are to
energy recovery from output waste products has found a carry out CFD analysis on these blades. Thus, the behavior of
specific importance. One of the functions of the turbine section the fluid flow which has obtained from a real condition of an
in the cycle is generating power for spinning the compressor. industrial gas turbine sample was studied on the moving blades
The turbine acquires the required power by extracting energy of the second stage of the simulated turbine. Then pressure and
from exhaust gases of combustion chamber which expand velocity distribution for an optimized blade regarding the
within turbine blades. Turbine blades at first tolerate an impulse height was computed and the differences between maximum
force from the early hit of hot gases and then tolerate a reaction pressure and velocities were reviewed.
By knowing ΔTos we can compute the blade force coefficient h 0 T 0 T01 T02 1273 K (15)
from Eq. (1). Now with specific ψ amount, Λ value and entry
and exit angles of the fluid are computed from the following Thus, T'2 is obtained from Eq. (16)
relations [3,4]:
C 22
T02 T2 N (16)
2c p
First stage
Flow coefficient 0.61 0.63 0.65 0.67 0.69
Flow exit angle 27.24 25 23 21 19
Rotor blade 0.095 0.0929 0.0909 0.0891 0.0874
height [m]
Second stage
Flow coefficient 0.74 0.76 0.78 0.8 0.82
Flow exit angle 21.02 19 17 15 13
Rotor blade 0.22 0.2174 0.2153 0.2136 0.2122
height [m]
coefficient
First
2Cp ΔTos
Rotor blade 0.904 0.846 0.797 0.755 ψ=
U2
height [m] Ca
Flow 0.75 0.8 0.85 0.9 ϕ=
U
Second
Stage
coefficient
Rotor blade 0.2133 0.2027 0.1938 0.1861
height [m]
TABLE 3.
1
FLOW EXIT ANGLE INCREASE AND THE HEIGHT tanβ3 =
2ϕ
(0.5ψ+2Λ)
DECREASE tanβ2 =
1
(0.5ψ-2Λ)
2ϕ α1 , α3
1
Flow exit angle 5 10 15 20 tanα3 =tanβ3 -
ϕ
𝛽2 , 𝛽3
Stage
First
1
Rotor blade 0.0985 0.0967 0.095 0.0935 tanα2 =tanβ2 +
ϕ
height [m]
Flow exit angle 10 15 20 25
Second
Stage
ϕ U
Pi
ρi =
RTi
m
Ai =
ρi Cα
Cα =ϕ×U
C
Ci = α
cos αi
Ci
Vi = ρi
cos βi
Ai
Ci Um
Vi rm =
2πN
Um A
h=
N
rt rm +0.5h
=
rr rm +0.5h
C2i
T0i -Ti =
2cp
cp
2<h/c< 4
s/c
T0i
Ti
2πrm
n=
S
γ
P0i T
=( 0i )γ-1
Pi+1 Ti+1
4
(σcl ) = πN2 ρA
max 3
m Cα2 +Cα3 h 1
σgb = × ×
max n 2 zc3
P0i P0i
< =1.853 NO
Pi+1 Pc t
c
M=
Vi
γRTi
FIGURE 7. THIRD STEP
YES
TABLE 5. THE ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR THE TYPE OF
TWO SATEGS TURBINE BY USING THE CODE
YES M≤0.75
Station Total Static Temperature Density
pressure pressure [°C] [kg/m3]
[Pascal] [Pascal]
NO 1 88152.75 1013250 1000 2.49
First 2 409353 768.1 1.35
stage 3 324240 273577.5 745 1.1
Step Step
III I Second 1 324240 273577.5 745 1.1
stage 2 126656.25 543.5 0.53
3 91192.5 101325 510 0.39
FIGURE 9. FLOW FIELD EQUATIONS CONVERGENCY TABLE 10. THE FLOW INLET CONDITIONS
DIAGRAM ACCORDING TO REPETITION FOR MOVING
BLADE OF THE REAL TURBINE Inlet static pressure Inlet gauge static Inlet flow rate
[Pascal] pressure [Pascal] [kg/s]
1000 30398 0.967
FIGURE 14. VELOCITY CONTOUR FOR BLADE WITH FIGURE 15. VELOCITY CONTOUR FOR BLADE WITH
0.220 M HEIGHT 0.212 M HEIGHT
Thus the blade height decrease makes the pressure and the
blade maximum velocity to be decreased and causes its life to
be increased.
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