Abstract:
An airfoil includes a squealer tip at an outer radial end of the airfoil. A squealer tip pocket of the squealer tip has a convex side and a concave side, and a tip plate. A divider extends across the tip plate from the concave side to the convex side to divide the squealer tip pocket into a first pocket and a second pocket. At least one cooling passage through the tip plate in the second pocket provides fluid communication through the tip plate from an interior of the airfoil to the second pocket. The first pocket is fluidically disconnected from the interior of the airfoil.
Abstract:
Platform cooling arrangements in a turbine rotor blade include a feedhole that extends from the suction side slash face to the interior cooling passage, and, one or more branch holes that each extends from the feedhole to the suction side slash face such that coolant flows from the interior cooling passage, through the feedhole to the one or more branch holes and exits the platform along the suction side slash face.
Abstract:
Systems and devices configured to cool turbine components in a turbine by passing a cooling flow through the turbine component via a cooling passage with a variable diameter are disclosed. In one embodiment, a turbine component includes: at least one elongated cooling passage extending from a root of the bucket to a tip of the bucket, wherein the elongated cooling passage has a variable diameter along a length of the bucket.