| 摘要 |
<p>The invention provides a novel sealing device and plenum assembly particularly adapted for forming a plenum inwardly of a circumferential stator blade array in a gas turbine engine. A gas turbine engine has an air compressor, combustor, and an annular hot gas path axially ducting hot gas past a circumferentially spaced apart array of stator blades upstream of a turbine rotor. Each stator blade has an internal bore for ducting cooling air between a radially outward shroud and a T.O.B.I. plenum (i.e.: Tangential On Board Injection) that accumulates cooling air for expulsion through T.O.B.I. nozzles. The T.O.B.I. plenum is defined by: a forward plate; a rearward plate; and an inner shroud disposed between the forward and rearward plates. The inventive improvement relates to a novel sealing device permitting construction of an inner shroud comprising a circumferential assembly of inner shroud segments with radially extending joints between adjacent inner shroud segments. The outer shroud is a one-piece hoop integral wiht stator blades and segmented inner shroud. To assemble the inner shroud to contain compressed air in the T.O.B.I. plenum, the plenum enclossure includes releasable elongate fasteners engaging the forward and rearward plates and clamping the inner shroud segments between the plates. Each fastener is disposed axially within an associated joint between adjacent inner shroud segments and each fastener includes a sealing sheath disposed about the fastener for sealing the associated joint.</p> |
