The efficiency of aircraft gas turbine engines is sensitive to the distance between the tips of its turbine blades and its shroud, which serves as its containment structure. Maintaining tighter clearance between these components has been shown to increase turbine efficiency, increase fuel efficiency, and reduce the turbine inlet temperature, and this correlates to a longer time-on-wing for the engine. Therefore, there is a desire to maintain a tight clearance in the turbine, which requires fast response active clearance control. Fast response active tip clearance control will require an actuator to modify the physical or effective tip clearance in the turbine. This paper evaluates the requirements of a generic active turbine tip clearance actuator for a modern commercial aircraft engine using the Commercial Modular Aero-Propulsion System Simulation 40k (C-MAPSS40k) software that has previously been integrated with a dynamic tip clearance model. A parametric study was performed in an attempt to evaluate requirements for control actuators in terms of bandwidth, rate limits, saturation limits, and deadband. Constraints on the weight of the actuation system and some considerations as to the force which the actuator must be capable of exerting and maintaining are also investigated. From the results, the relevant range of the evaluated actuator parameters can be extracted. Some additional discussion is provided on the challenges posed by the tip clearance control problem and the implications for future small core aircraft engines.
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ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition
June 26–30, 2017
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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- International Gas Turbine Institute
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A Parametric Study of Actuator Requirements for Active Turbine Tip Clearance Control of a Modern High Bypass Turbofan Engine
Jonathan L. Kratz,
Jonathan L. Kratz
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
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Jeffryes W. Chapman,
Jeffryes W. Chapman
Vantage Partners, LLC, Brook Park, OH
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Ten-Huei Guo
Ten-Huei Guo
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
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Jonathan L. Kratz
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Jeffryes W. Chapman
Vantage Partners, LLC, Brook Park, OH
Ten-Huei Guo
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
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GT2017-63472, V006T05A005; 15 pages
Published Online:
August 17, 2017
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Kratz, JL, Chapman, JW, & Guo, T. "A Parametric Study of Actuator Requirements for Active Turbine Tip Clearance Control of a Modern High Bypass Turbofan Engine." Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 6: Ceramics; Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation; Education; Manufacturing Materials and Metallurgy. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. June 26–30, 2017. V006T05A005. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2017-63472
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