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A Study on the Leakage Characteristics of a Stepped Labyrinth Seal with a Ribbed Casing

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  • Min-Seok Hur

    (Graduate School, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-Gu, Incheon 22212, Korea)

  • Seong-Won Moon

    (Graduate School, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-Gu, Incheon 22212, Korea)

  • Tong-Seop Kim

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-Gu, Incheon 22212, Korea)

Abstract

A new type of stepped seal with a ribbed casing is proposed to efficiently reduce the leakage at the tips of turbine blades. The leakage characteristics of two different types of labyrinth seals (conventional seal vs. ribbed seal) were compared and analyzed through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in a wide operating range of pressure ratios and clearances. The analysis showed that the ribbed seal has superior leakage performance to the conventional seal at all clearance sizes. With the same clearance size (S/H = 1.0), the flow function of the ribbed seal was approximately 21.5–42.6% less than that of the conventional seal. Also, different trends of variation in the flow function according to the increase of the clearance were found between the conventional and ribbed seals. The leakage flow inside the labyrinth seal was analyzed to explain the cause of this difference in tendency, and it was confirmed that the added ribs cause collision between the leakage flow and the tooth wall, even with the increase of the clearance. Also, the ribbed seal enables operation at a larger clearance with the same leakage performance when comparing the absolute leakage flow rate of the two seals. In addition, a parametric study on the influence of the rib height and rib inclination angle revealed that the flow function generally decreases as both parameters increase.

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  • Min-Seok Hur & Seong-Won Moon & Tong-Seop Kim, 2021. "A Study on the Leakage Characteristics of a Stepped Labyrinth Seal with a Ribbed Casing," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-15, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:13:p:3719-:d:579271
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    Cited by:

    1. Yuxin Liu & Benzhuang Yue & Xiaozhi Kong & Hua Chen & Huawei Lu, 2021. "Effects of Front Plate Geometry on Brush Seal in Highly Swirling Environments of Gas Turbine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-15, November.
    2. Damian Joachimiak, 2021. "Novel Method of the Seal Aerodynamic Design to Reduce Leakage by Matching the Seal Geometry to Flow Conditions," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-16, November.

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