Distribution characteristics of salt-out particles in steam turbine stage

Pengfei Hu, Lihua Cao, Jingkai Su, Qi Li and Yong Li

Energy, 2020, vol. 192, issue C

Abstract: Exploring the distribution characteristics of salt-out particles on the blade surface is one of the most urgent problems for supercritical steam turbine. To obtain more practical distribution characteristics of salt-out particles in the steam turbine stage, the population balance model is loaded based on Eulerian multiphase model to simulate the real existed microscopic behaviors of salt-out particles such as nucleation, growth, aggregation and breakage. The results show that along the axial direction the number of salt-out particles gradually decreases and a ladder-like distribution is observed both on the stator and rotor blades. For the stator blade, a critical position which is 62.9% of the axial chord length occurs before which the diameter of salt-out particles on the pressure surface is greater than that on the suction surface, while after that the situation is opposite; for the rotor blade, a different critical position which is 81.1% of the axial chord length occurs. Along the axial direction the volume fraction of particles declines in the entrance area, fluctuates in the middle area on the stator blade, and on the pressure surface of rotor blade, a peak position of the volume fraction is consistent with the maximum turbulence intensity and particle diameter.

Keywords: Steam turbine; Salt-out particles; Population balance model; Distribution characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.116626

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