Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling
Improvements in the efficiency of gas turbine engines over the decades have led to increasing turbine inlet temperatures. This, in turn, has resulted in the need to cool the turbine blades themselves to avoid damage to them. While air-cooling and film-cooling methods have been adopted as the primary...
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| description | Improvements in the efficiency of gas turbine engines over the decades have led to increasing turbine inlet temperatures. This, in turn, has resulted in the need to cool the turbine blades themselves to avoid damage to them. While air-cooling and film-cooling methods have been adopted as the primary methods of gas turbine blade cooling, the heat pipe cooling method shows greater potential in terms of temperature uniformity, maximum allowable gas temperature, reliability, and durability. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art research activities on the radial rotating heat pipes (RRHP) potentially applicable to gas turbine cooling. The emergence of the heat-pipe-cooled turbine blade concept, designs, and variants will be described at the beginning. Then the paper will review the literature addressing the heat transfer performance of RRHPs, and the effects on them of rotational forces, working fluid properties, and geometry, as well as operational limits they may be subject to. Additionally, the effects of secondary flow and numerical simulation of RRHPs will be reviewed and discussed. It can be concluded that fundamental studies are still needed for the understanding of the RRHP, as well as the improvement of numerical models. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f1fd1252e02240afa14a5d445a3c1a4d2023-11-17T14:12:18ZengMDPI AGThermo2673-72642023-02-013112714710.3390/thermo3010009Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine CoolingZhao Wang0Ali Turan1Timothy Craft2Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UKIndependent Researcher, Manchester M22 4ES, UKDepartment of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UKImprovements in the efficiency of gas turbine engines over the decades have led to increasing turbine inlet temperatures. This, in turn, has resulted in the need to cool the turbine blades themselves to avoid damage to them. While air-cooling and film-cooling methods have been adopted as the primary methods of gas turbine blade cooling, the heat pipe cooling method shows greater potential in terms of temperature uniformity, maximum allowable gas temperature, reliability, and durability. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art research activities on the radial rotating heat pipes (RRHP) potentially applicable to gas turbine cooling. The emergence of the heat-pipe-cooled turbine blade concept, designs, and variants will be described at the beginning. Then the paper will review the literature addressing the heat transfer performance of RRHPs, and the effects on them of rotational forces, working fluid properties, and geometry, as well as operational limits they may be subject to. Additionally, the effects of secondary flow and numerical simulation of RRHPs will be reviewed and discussed. It can be concluded that fundamental studies are still needed for the understanding of the RRHP, as well as the improvement of numerical models.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7264/3/1/9gas turbineradial heat piperotating |
| spellingShingle | Zhao Wang Ali Turan Timothy Craft Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling Thermo gas turbine radial heat pipe rotating |
| title | Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling |
| title_full | Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling |
| title_fullStr | Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling |
| title_short | Review of the State of the Art for Radial Rotating Heat Pipe Technology Potentially Applicable to Gas Turbine Cooling |
| title_sort | review of the state of the art for radial rotating heat pipe technology potentially applicable to gas turbine cooling |
| topic | gas turbine radial heat pipe rotating |
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