Theoretical and Numerical Analysis of the Mechanical Erosion in Steam Turbine Blades. Part I

The methodology of calculation of the velocity distribution for the stream frictionless and the drops in the flow line, on the basis of the frictionless, two-dimensional, stationary, transonic and homogenous flow is established. The knowledge of conditions that govern the low pressure section of steam turbines in the last stage to have an approximate movement of the droplets in the blade cascades and the accumulation of droplets on the stator blades, flowing through the steam, is presented. This study is used for developing a code in Fortran about the velocity distribution in the output of stator blades that have flow conditions of wet steam, in order to understand the causes that originate the erosion on the blades of the last stages in the low pressure section of steam turbines.

Transient Characteristics of a High-Capacity Centrifugal Pump during Rapidly Regulating Discharge Valve

In order to reveal the instantaneous characteristics of a high-capacity centrifugal pump during rapidly regulating discharge valve,theoretical analysis and numerical simulation are employed.The transient characteristics of the pump model under off-design condition were theoretically analyzed based on the generalized basic equation of vane pumps.The study showed that a centrifugal pump with radial straight blades at off-design condition almost had no transient effect,whereas a centrifugal pump with common backward-curved blades had transient effects that were directly related to the regularity of adjusting flowrate.Calculation examples show that transient effects are insignificant.The finite volume method and re-normalization group(RNG)κ-ε turbulence model were adopted to accomplish a 3D numerical calculation of a mediumspecific-speed centrifugal pump under the off-design condition.The transient process at the off-design condition is mainly caused by the time-varying intrinsic pulsation from the stator-rotor interference and by the time-varying consequent pulsation from the changes in flow rate.

Active Control of Fan Noise

In the wake-rotor interaction fan noise, a number of the interacting modes at the blade passing frequency （BPF） and its harmonics are generated which are prescribed by the number of stator and rotor blades etc. In the present study, the dominant mode is tried to be suppressed by the secondary sound from the loudspeaker actuators. One of the novel features of the present system is the adoption of the control board with the Field Programmable Gate Array （FP（3A） hardware and the LabVIEW software to synchronize the circumferentially installed loudspeaker actuators with the relative location of rotational blades under arbitrary fan rotational speeds. The experiments were conducted under the conditions of three rotational speeds of 2004, 3150, and 4002 [rpm]. The reduction in the sound pressure level （SPL） was observed for all three rotational speeds. The sound pressure level at the BPF was reduced approximately 13 [dB] for 2004 [rpm] case, but not so large reduction was attained for other cases probably due to the inefficiency of the loudspeaker actuators at high frequencies

Numerical Analysis of the Aeroelastic Behaviour for the Last Turbine Stage in 3D Transonic Flow

An understanding of the physics of the mutual interaction between gas flow and oscillating blades, and the development of predictive capabilities is essential for improving overall efficiency, durability and reliability. In this study presented the algorithm proposed involving the coupled solution of 3D unsteady flow through a turbine stage and dynamic problem for rotor blades motion by action of aerodynamic forces without separating outer and inner flow fluctuations. There has been performed the calculations for the last stage of the steam turbine under design and off-design regimes. It has investigated the mutual influence of both outer flow non-uniformity and blades oscillations. It has shown that amplitude-frequency spectrum of blade oscillations contains the high frequency harmonics, corresponding to rotor moving one stator blade pitch, and low frequency harmonics caused by blade oscillations and flow non-uniformity downstream from the blade row.