Arrangement for maintaining clearances between a turbine rotor and casing

US4439982A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MTU Motoren-und Turbinen-Union München GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Weiler · Dachau, DE
• Klaus Trappmann · Dachau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 1982
• Grant date: Apr 3, 1984
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/60
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An annular sleeve surrounds a turbine rotor and is fixed to a stationary part, the sleeve being elastically deformable in a radial direction. A wear ring is carried by the sleeve, the wear ring being composed of segments arranged end-to-end circumferentially. The adjacent ends of the segments are spaced apart at all operating conditions of the turbine. The thermal expansions of the turbine rotor and of the sleeve and ring are so related that under operating conditions of the turbine, when the engine of which it forms a part is running, the sleeve thermally expands radially. The rate of thermal expansion of the stationary part is directly related to the rate of thermal expansion of the turbine rotor. Air leaving the compressor is directed against the sleeve and the stationary part carrying the sleeve. The wear ring and portion carrying the sleeve may be insulated. The sleeve may be mounted on a combustion chamber surrounding the turbine.