Design and Thermal Analysis of Steam Turbine Blade Using Fem Method

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DESIGN AND THERMAL ANALYSIS OF STEAM TURBINE BLADE

USING FEM METHOD
BURAGUMMALABVKISHORE NALLI ANIL KUMAR
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical M.Tech Student, , Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering, Akrg College of Engineering and Engineering, Akrg College of Engineering and
Technology, Nallajerla Technology, Nallajerla
Buragummalabvkishore@gmail.com Nanilambani@gmail.com
ABSTRACT assembly, which is a shaft or drum

with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on
A steam turbine is mechanical device which
converts thermal energy in steam into mechanical
the blades so that they move and impart
work. The steam turbine gives the better rotational energy to the rotor. Early turbine
thermodynamic efficiency by using multiple stages examples are windmills and waterwheels.
in the expansion of steam. The stages are
characterized by the way of energy extraction from Gas, steam, and water turbines have a
them is considered as impulse or reaction turbines. casing around the blades that contains and
In this thesis the parameters of steam turbine blade controls the working fluid. Credit for
varied and analysis is done for strength, life and invention of the steam turbine is given
heat transfer rates. The varied parameters are the
both to British engineer Sir Charles
ratio of X-axis distance of blade profile by chord
length and ratio of maximum height of blade profile Parsons (1854–1931) for invention of the
in Y-direction to the chord length. The 3D reaction turbine, and to Swedish
modelling is done by using catia software. The engineer Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913) for
ANSYS software is used for static, thermal analysis, invention of the impulse turbine. Modern
finally concluded the suitable design and material
steam turbines frequently employ both
(Haste alloy, Chrome steel, Inconel 600) for steam
turbine blade. reaction and impulse in the same unit,
typically varying the degree of
KEY WORDS: Steam Turbine, Thermal Energy, reaction and impulse from the blade root to
Impulse Turbine, Reaction Turbine, Static Analysis,
its periphery.
Thermal Analysis.
CHAPTER 1
TURBINE INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
A turbine (from the Latin turbo, a vortex, FIG 1TURBINE
related to the Greek, meaning
"turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device 1.2 PRINCIPLE OF STEAM
that extracts energy from a fluid flow and TURBINE:
converts it into useful work. The work The steam energy is converted mechanical
produced by a turbine can be used for work. Expansion takes place through
generating electrical power when aby expansion through the turbine. series
combined with a generator or of fixed . In each row fixed blades
producing thrust, as in the case of jet (nozzles) and moving blades Blade and
engines. A turbine is a turbo machine with moving blade are called stage
at least one moving part called a rotor

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1. 2.1 Impulse steam turbine
The steam turbine is a device for obtaining

mechanical work from the energy stored in
steam. There are two main types of
turbine, the 'impulse' and the 'reaction'.
The names refer to the type of force which
acts on the blades to turn the turbine FIG 3 IMPLUSE BLADING
wheel. The impulse arrangement is made
up of a ring of nozzles followed by a ring 1.2.2 Reaction steam turbine
of blades. The high-pressure, high-energy
steam is expanded in the nozzle to a lower- The reaction arrangement is made up of a
pressure, high-velocity jet of steam. This ring of fixed blades attached to the casing,
jet of steam is directed into the impulse and a row of similar blades mounted on the
blades and leaves in a different direction . rotor, i.e. moving blades . The blades are
The changing direction and therefore mounted and shaped to produce a
velocity produces an impulsive force narrowing passage which, like a nozzle,
which mainly acts in the direction of increases the steam velocity. There is also
rotation of the turbine blades. There is only a change in velocity of the steam as a
a very small end thrust on the turbine result of a change in direction and an
shaft. impulsive force is also produced with this
type of blading. The more correct term for
this blade arrangement is 'impulse-
reaction'. A reaction turbine utilizes a jet
of Reaction steam turbine: steam that
flows from a nozzle on the rotor
FIG 2 IMPULSE STEAM TURBINE
The turbine consists of a single rotor he

single stage impulse turbine to which
impulse blades are attached .The steam is
fed through one or several convergent
nozzles. If high velocity of steam is
allowed to flow through one row of
moving bladesIt produces a rotor speed of. FIG 4 REATION TURBINE BLADE
about 30000 rpm which is too high for
practical use
CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
Many investigators have suggested various
methods to explain the effect of stress and
loading on turbine blade, roter and analysis
the various parameters: John. V, T.
Ramakrishna was investigated on design
and analysis of Gas turbine blade, CATIA

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is used for design of solid model and cycle costs, efficiency, and improve
ANSYS software for analysis for F.E. reliability Sanjay Kumar was investgated
model generated, by applying boundary on creep life of turbine blade. Inertia load
condition, this paper also includes specific is the constant load that will cause creep
post processing and life assessment of failure. Creep is a rate dependent material
blade. How the program makes effective nonlinearity in which material continues to
use of the ANSYS pre-processor to mesh deform in nonlinear fashion even under
complex geometries of turbine blade and constant load. This phenomenon is
apply boundary conditions. The principal predominant in components, which
aim of this paper is to get the natural exposed to high temperatures. By studying
frequencies and mode shape of the turbine the creep phenomenon and predicting the
blade. In this paper we have analyzed creep life of the component, we can
previous designs and generals of turbine estimate its design life. The main objective
blade to do further optimization, Finite is to predict the creep life of the simple
element results for free standing blades impulse steam turbine blade, and to give
give a complete picture of structural the FEM approach for creep analysis. The
characteristics, which can utilized for the analysis of turbine blade for different
improvement in the design and loads, which shows that the maximum
optimization of the operating conditions. stresses, induced in each case. These
stresses are within yield limit of the
Subramanyam Pavuluri, Dr. A. Siva material and will not undergo plastic
Kumar was investigated on design of high deformation during operationresult is
pressure steam turbine blade addresses the found that, creep life decreases as the
issue of steam turbine efficiency. A stress value increases. Hence, by
specific focus on airfoil profile for high- decreasing the stress value in the
pressure turbine blade, and it evaluates the component we can increase its creep life.
effectiveness of certain Chromium and This was be achieved by modifying the
Nickel in resisting creep and fracture in blade design. Avinash V. Sarlashkar,
turbine blades. The efficiency of the steam MARK L. Redding investigated on the
turbine is a key factor in both the architecture and capabilities of Blade Pro.
environmental and economic impact of An ANSYS based turbine blade analysis
any coal-fired power station. Based on the system with extensive automation for solid
research presented modifications to high- model and F.E. model generation,
pressure steam turbine blades can made to boundary condition application, file
increase turbine efficiency of the turbine. handling and job submission tasks for a
The results and conclusions are presented variety of complex analyses; the program
for a concerning the durability problems also includes turbo machinery specific post
experienced with steam turbine blades. processing and life assessment modules.
The maximum operational Von Mises Blade Pro is a cutting-edge example for
Stresses are within the yield strength of the vertical applications built on the core
material but the deformation is ANSYS engine using ANSYS APDL.
comparatively better for material CA-6 Examples of how the program makes
NM (Chromium Nickel). Modified effective use of the ANSYS preprocessor
solutions for Steam turbine blade values to to mesh complex geometries of turbine
machines to maximize their reduce life blade and apply boundary conditions are

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presented using specific examples. A real modification to the butting area and
world application is used to demonstrate reducing the fillet radius. To conduct the
the pre-processing capabilities, static and sensitivity analysis for the fillet stresses in
dynamic stress analyses results, generation blade and disk using FEA.
of Campbell and Interference diagrams
and life assessment. The principal
CHAPTER 3
advantage of Blade Pro is its ability to
PROJECT OVER VIEW
generate accurate results in a short amount
of time, thus reducing the design cycle 3. 1 STEAM TURBINE
time. The good correlation achieved is a NOMENCLATURE:
testament to the accuracy of the ANSYS
solvers and validity of the modeling
techniques adopted in Blade Pro.
DR.SHANTHARAJA.M, DR. Kumar. K.,
was work on the large variety of turbo-
machinery blade root geometries used in
industry prompted the question if an
optimum geometry could be found. An FIG 5 STEAM TURBINE BLADE
optimum blade root was defined, as a root NOMENCLATURE
with practical geometry which, when
loaded returns the minimum fillet stress 3.2 PROBLEM DEFINITION:
concentration factor. The present paper All modern steam power plants use
outlines the design modification for fillet impulse-reaction turbines as their blading
stresses and a special attention made on efficiency is higher than that of impulse
SCF of the blade root (T-root) which fails turbines. Last stage of steam turbine
and to guarantee for safe and reliable impulse-reaction blade are very much
operation under all possible service directly affect efficiency of plant with the
conditions. Finite Element Analysis is information that an understanding of the
used to determine the fillet stresses and forces and stresses acting on the turbine
Peterson’s Stress Concentration Factor blades is vital importance, in this work we
chart is effectively utilized to modify the will compute such a force acting on a last
blade root. The root modified due to the stage Low Pressure (LP) blade of a large
difficulty in manufacturing the butting steam turbine rotating at 3000 rpm in order
surface of the tang that grips the blade to to estimate the material stresses at the
the disk crowns A Review on Analysis of blade root. One such LP steam turbine
Low Pressure Stage of Steam Turbine blade is show in Figure 1. We studied
Blade with FEA (ANSYS Software) structural and themal analysis of blade
(IJSRD/Vol. 1/Issue 10/2013/0003) All using FEA for this work and by use of the
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having small contact area. Verify the same FEA (ANSYS) and This study work
using Finite Element Analysis for two involved the analyze blade and check FEA
cases with and without the tang in the data of std. blade with various material.
blade. Firstly, to study the fillet stresses
with tang and then Petersons chart is used
to reduce the peak stresses with the

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3.3 OBJECTIVE Vm=velocity of steam in m/s

The objective of this project is to make a
Steam turbine blade different 3D model of M=1000kg/hr
the steam turbine blade, To study the static Vm=1310m/s
- thermal behaviour of the steam turbine
blade with different materials by F=362.87N
performing the finite element analysis.3D
Blade area=23319.1mm2
modelling software (catia v5) was used for
designing and analysis software (ANSYS) Pressure =F/A
was used for analysis.
P=0.01556N/mm2
3.4 METHODOLOGY
THE METHODOLOGY FOLLOWED 3.7 MATERIAL PROPERTIES
IN THE PROJECT IS AS FOLLOWS: TAB 1HASTELLOY PROPERTIES
 Create a 3D model of the different

Steam turbine blades using
parametric software catia v5.
 Convert the surface model into IGS
and import the model into ANSYS
to do analysis.
 Perform static and thermal
analysis on the steam turbine blade.
 Finally it was concluded which
material is the suitable for steam
turbine blade on these three TAB 2 INCONEL600 PROPERTIES
materials.
3.5 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT :

The scopes of this proposed project are:
1. To generate 3-dimensional geometry

model in catia workbench of the steam
turbine blade
2. To perform structural analysis on the

model to determine the stress, shear stress,
deformation, of the component under the
static- thermal load conditions
3. To compare analysis between three

different materials of steam turbine blade
3.6 LOAD CALCULATION:

𝐹 = 𝑀 × 𝑉𝑚
M=Mass of stream flowing through

turbine

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TAB 3 CHROME STEEL FIG 3 STEAM TURBINE BLADE IN

PROPERTIES CATIA WORK BENCH
NTRODUCTION TO
CHAPTER 5
5.1 ANALYSIS PROCEDURE IN

ANSYS:
Designed component in Catia workbench
after imported into Ansys workbench now
select the steady state thermal analysis.
1. ENGINEEERING MATERIALS
(MATERIAL PROPERTIES).
CHAPTER 4
2. CREATE OR IMPORT
4.1 DIMENSIONS AND DESIGN GEOMENTRY.
PROCEDURE IN CATIA:
Go to the sketcher workbench create 3. MODEL (APPLY MESHING).
profile blade shape by using spine and arcs
4. SET UP(BOUNDARY CONDITIONS)
as below dimensions after go to the part
design workbench apply pad as shown 5. SOLUTION
below figure
6. RESULTS
5.2 STATIC STRUCTURAL

ANALYSIS
The static structural analysis calculates the
stresses, displacements, strains, and forces
in structures caused by a load that does not
induce significant inertia and damping
effects. Steady loading and response
conditions are assumed; that the loads and
the structure’s response are assumed to
change slowly with respect to time. A
FIG 2BLADE DIMENSIONS static structural load can be performed
using the ANSYS WORKBENCH solver.
The types of loading that can be applied in
a static analysis include:
5.3 STEADY STATE THERMAL

ANALYSIS:
A steady state thermal analysis calculates
the effect of steady thermal load on a
system or component, analyst were also
doing the steady state analysis before
performing the transient analysis. A steady

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state analysis can be the last step of

transient thermal analysis. We can use
steady state thermal analysis to determine FIG 6 BOUNDARY CONDITION IN
temperature, thermal gradient, heat flow STEADY STATE THERMAL
rates and heat flux in an object that do not ANALYSIS
vary with time
CHAPTER 6
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
6.1 STATIC ANALYSIS:

This analysis is performed to find
Structural parameters such as
Stresses,shearstress, Deformation, Here we
observed results on three materials namely
Fig 4Meshing Nodes 1580,elements 752 chrome steel, hastelloy, and Inconel as
shown below figures
5.4 BOUNDARY CONDITION
In static analysis fixed the bottom side 6.1.2 Chrome steel
after apply pressure on blade face
FIG 7 STRESS ON CHROME STEEL
FIG 5 BOUNDARY CONDITION IN

STATIC ANALYSIS
Boundary condition in steady state thermal

analysis: apply temperature 2290c, apply FIG 15 SHEAR STRESS ON CHROME
convection 220cfilm coefficient is STEEL
o
0.0025w/mm2 c

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FIG 20 STRESSES ON HASTELLOY

FIG 16 DEFORMATION ON
CHROME STEEL
6.1.3 Inconel material

FIG 21 SHEAR STRESS ON
HASTELLOY
FIG 17 STRESSES ON INCONEL

FIG 22 DEFORMATIONS ON
HASTEALLOY
CHAPTER 7. THERMAL ANALYSIS:

This analysis is performed to find thermal
parameters such as Here we observed
results on four materials chrome steel,
hastelloy, and Inconel as shown below
FIG 18 SHEAR STRESS ON figures
INCONEL
7.1 CHROME STEEL
FIG 19 DEFORMATION NIMONIC

80A
FIG 23 TEMPERATURE
6.1.4 HASTELLOY: DISTRIBUTION CHROME STEEL

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FIG 28 HEAT FLUX ON INCONEL

600
7.3 GRAPH
7.3.1 Stress graph
This graph shows the different

maximum stress values in different
FIG 24 HEAT FLUX CHROME materials, chrome steel, hastelloy, and
STEEL Inconel materials, hastelloy has least
shear stress value of 8.49Mpa
7.2 HASTELLOY:
compared to another materials as
shown in the graph 1
FIG 25 TEMPERATURE
DISTRIBUTIONS ON HASTELLOY
FIG 29 STRESS GRAPH
7.3.2 Total deformation graph
This graph shows the different total

deformation values in different
FIG 26 HEAT FLUX ON HASTELLOY materials, chrome steel, hastelloy, and
INCONEL 600: Inconel, hastelloy material has least
total deformation value of 0.0026mm
compared to another materials as
shown in the graph 1
FIG 27 TEMPERATURE
DISTRIBUTION ON INCONEL 600
FIG 30 TOTAL DEFORMATION

GRAPH

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7.3.3 Shear stress graph of 0.772w/mm2 compared to another

materials as shown in the graph 1
This graph shows the different total
deformation values in different
materials, chrome steel, hastelloy, and
Inconel , inconel material has least
shear stress compared to another
materials 0.53mpa as shown in the
graph 1
FIG 33 HEAT FLUX GRAPH
CHAPTER 8
CONCLUSION
Modeling of steam turbine blade is done

FIG 31 SHEAR STRESS GRAPH
by using CATIAV5 Software and then the
7.3.4 Temperature distribution graph model is imported into ANSYS Software
for Structural analysis on the steam turbine
This graph shows the different blade to check the quality of materials
temperature distribution values in such as, chrome steel, hastelloy, and
different materials, chrome steel, Inconel. From the obtained Von-misses
hastelloy, and Inconel , hastelloy has stresses, shear stress , deformation,
highest temp distribution value of temperature distribution and heat flux for
13.403 (0c)(min) compared to another the materials, respectively Compared with
materials as shown in the graph 2 all materials hastelloy material have less
stresses, deformations, and High
temperature distribution and heat flux
values .Finally from structural analysis and
thermal analysis based on results it is
concluded that haste alloy material is
suitable material for stream turbine .
FIG 32 TEMPERATURE REFERENCES

[1]Reliability design method for turbine blades by
DISTRIBUTION GRAPH Jinyuan Shi.
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using FEM by K. Matta , R.B.Pothula, R.U. Rao
This graph shows the different heat
flux values in different materials, [3]Experimental investigation on design of high
pressure steam turbine blade by Subramanyam
chrome steel, hastelloy, and Inconel,
Pavuluri , Dr. A. Siva kumar
hastelloy has highest heat flux value

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[4]Design modification for fillet stresses in steam

turbine blade by Tulsidas d, Dr. Shantharaja. M,
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MD. Imran Ahmed, T.Sharath Kumar, A.Vamshi
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analysis of gas turbine blade by Ganta Nagaraju,
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P.Zala, Dr.K.M.Srivastava, Nilesh.H. Pancholi.

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AIJREAS VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 (2018, MAY) (ISSN-2455-6300)ONLINE

Anveshana’s International Journal of Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences