Background
The liquid rocket engine turbopump has high rotating speed and high pressure, the high-speed rotating friction of a bearing for supporting a turbopump rotor can cause temperature rise, the turbopump can generate large axial force and radial force which are borne by the bearing in the process from starting to shutting down of the engine, and the bearing needs to be continuously cooled in order to balance the generation of a large amount of frictional heat generated in the working process of the bearing.
The liquid rocket engine turbopump bearing is located in the pump chamber, generally adopts self propellant to cool, and the mode that usually adopts is: except for a main flow path of the propellant, an auxiliary flow path is specially arranged, a high-pressure medium is led out from an area with higher pressure in a pump cavity and returns to a main pump path after cooling a bearing, and the cooling mode not only loses the energy of the high-pressure medium and reduces the efficiency of the pump. In addition, more importantly, the auxiliary flow path in the pump is usually very complex, the product processing is difficult due to the general internal drainage, and corresponding pipelines are additionally arranged outside the pump shell under most conditions, so that the pump has the defects of complex structure and increased weight of an engine.
Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem solved by the invention is as follows: the defects of the prior art are overcome, the cooling structure of the spiral wheel pair bearing of the liquid rocket engine pump is provided, the cooling flow of the bearing is ensured, the cooling structure of the turbine pump bearing of the engine is simplified, and the pump efficiency is improved.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows: a liquid rocket engine pump helical gear pair bearing cooling structure, comprising: the device comprises an inducer (1), a spiral wheel (2), a bearing (3), a sealing element (4), a shaft end compression nut (5), an inlet shell (6) and a shaft (7);
an inlet housing (6) comprising: an inlet section (67) and an annular section (68);
an annular segment (68) comprising: the outlet section, the transition section and the bearing cooling section;
the inner cavity of the inlet section (67), the inner cavity of the transition section of the annular section and the inner cavity of the outlet section are jointly used as a main flow cavity;
the inner cavity of the outlet section is cylindrical, the inner cavity of the bearing cooling section is a bearing cooling cavity, the bearing cooling cavity is a multi-stage structure formed by sequentially arranging a plurality of cylinders with different diameters from small to large, one side of the smallest cylinder is the small end of the bearing cooling cavity, and one side of the largest cylinder is the large end of the bearing cooling cavity;
the spiral wheel (2) comprises a sleeve (21) and spiral teeth (22), and the spiral teeth (22) circumferentially surround the outer surface of the sleeve (21);
the inducer (1) is arranged in an outlet section inner cavity of an annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6);
the spiral wheel (2), the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4) are sequentially arranged in a bearing cooling section inner cavity of the annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6);
the inducer (1), the spiral wheel (2), the bearing (3), the sealing element (4) and the shaft end compression nut (5) are all assembled on the shaft (7), the shaft end compression nut (5) is arranged beside the sealing element (4), the shaft end compression nut (5) and the shaft (7) are screwed up in a torque manner, and the axial compression force ensures that the spiral wheel (2) rotates synchronously with the shaft (7);
the inducer (1) is connected with the shaft (7) through a spline;
a through hole (63) is formed in one side, close to the bearing cooling section, of the transition section inner cavity of the annular section (68), and the through hole (63) is communicated with the transition section inner cavity and the bearing cooling section inner cavity;
the through hole (63) is positioned between the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4) at the axial position of the bearing cooling section;
liquid medium enters an inlet shell (6) from an inlet section (67), passes through a main flow cavity, flows out from an outlet section, drives a spiral wheel (2) to rotate through a shaft (7) to generate suction force, partial liquid medium passing through a transition section is pumped into a through hole (63) of an inner cavity of the transition section, passes through the through hole (63) and reaches a space between a bearing (3) and a sealing element (4), flows through the bearing (3) to cool the bearing (3), takes away heat generated by the rotational friction of the bearing (3), flows back to the transition section through a spiral tooth (22), and is converged into the outlet section to cool the bearing;
and the sealing element (4) is used for blocking the liquid medium from flowing to the large end of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section when reaching the space between the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4), and ensuring that all the liquid medium reaching the space between the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4) flows to the small end of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section.
Preferably, the inlet section (67) is a convergent channel with a gradually changing cross section from large to small;
preferably, the inlet section (67) and the transition section in the inlet shell (6) are provided with first partition plates (61), and the first partition plates (61) penetrate through the inlet section and the transition section to reduce prerotation of the liquid medium.
Preferably, a second partition plate (62) is further arranged at the transition section in the inlet shell (6); the first partition plate (61) and the second partition plate (62) are flat plates, the planes of the second partition plate (62) and the first partition plate (61) are located on the same plane, and the central axis of the shaft (7) is also located in the plane of the second partition plate (62) and the first partition plate (61); the first partition plate (61) and the second partition plate (62) are respectively located on both sides of the central axis of the shaft (7).
Preferably, the radius clearance between the top of the spiral tooth (22) and the smallest diameter part of the bearing cooling cavity step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the bearing cooling section of the inlet shell (6) is 0.5-0.7 mm.
Preferably, the inlet shell (6) is of an axisymmetric structure, and the center line of the step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section in the annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6) and the center line of the cylindrical wall surface (66) of the outlet section of the inlet shell are collinear with the center line of the shaft (7).
Preferably, the offset distance l between the central line of the transition section of the annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6) and the central line of the shaft (7) is 40-45.5 cm.
Preferably, the inlet section (67) and the transition section inner cavity symmetric surface of the inlet shell (6) are provided with a first partition plate (61) and a second partition plate (62), the first partition plate (61) extends to the joint of the main flow cavity inner wall surface (64) and the bearing cooling cavity step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the transition section in the annular section (68) from the inlet of the inlet section (67) of the inlet shell (6), the second partition plate (62) is arranged on the other side of the symmetric surface of the inlet annular section (678) of the inlet shell (6), and the included angle between the second partition plate (62) and the first partition plate (61) is 180 degrees.
Preferably, two through holes (63) parallel to the symmetry plane are formed in the inner wall surface (64) of the main flow cavity of the transition section of the inlet shell (6), and the through holes (63) are symmetrical about the symmetry plane and penetrate through the inner wall surface (64) of the main flow cavity of the transition section and the step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section.
Preferably, two ends of the outer diameter of the sleeve (21) are cylindrical sections, one end with a small diameter is a small end of the sleeve (21), the other end with a large diameter is a large end of the sleeve (21), the middle of the two cylindrical sections is in conical transition, and the small end of the sleeve is matched with the end face of the bearing.
Preferably, the helical teeth (22) are uniformly distributed along the circumferential direction of the outer surface of the small-end cylindrical section of the sleeve (21), the rotation direction of the helical teeth (22) is right-handed, the cross section of the helical teeth (22) is trapezoidal, the number of the helical teeth (22) is 6-10, the axial length of the helical teeth (22) is 14-16.5 mm, the thread pitch of the helical teeth (22) is 65-70 mm, the tooth height of the helical teeth (22) is 3-4 mm, and the tooth top width of the helical teeth (22) is 0.8-1 mm.
Preferably, the inner diameter of the sleeve (21) is divided into three cylindrical sections, the inner diameter of the large end of the sleeve (21) is slightly larger than that of the small end of the sleeve (21), the inner diameter of the middle section is the largest, and meanwhile, the diameter of the shaft (7) at the large end matching part of the sleeve (21) is slightly larger than that of the shaft (7) at the small end matching part of the sleeve (21).
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
(1) the invention solves the problems of the traditional structure, and provides a bearing cooling loop structure, which is used for cooling a bearing in a pump cavity, simplifying the external structure of an engine and lightening the weight of the engine.
(2) The structure of the cooling bearing is a simple and reliable bearing cooling loop structure, a helical wheel is arranged in a flow path in a pump, the helical wheel and a shaft rotate synchronously, the pumping action is realized, the circulation power is provided for a bearing cooling auxiliary path, two through holes parallel to a symmetrical plane are formed in the inner wall surface of a main flow cavity of an inlet shell transition section, the through holes penetrate through the inner wall surface of the main flow cavity of the transition section and the step cylindrical wall surface of the bearing cooling cavity, a medium is introduced from the two through holes of the inlet shell by using the pumping action of the helical wheel, the cooling bearing is pressurized by the helical wheel and returns to an inducer inlet, a cooling flow path is completely sealed in the pump, a pipeline does not need to be additionally arranged outside the pump, the structure is simple, and the weight of an engine. More importantly, the bearing is cooled by adopting a low-pressure medium, so that the energy loss of fluid is reduced, and the pump efficiency is improved.
(3) The spiral wheel is right-handed, the flowing direction of a liquid medium is introduced from the through hole in the inner cavity of the transition section of the inlet shell, the liquid medium sequentially flows through the bearing and the spiral wheel and then returns to the inlet of the inducer, the axial position of the opening of the through hole on the step cylindrical wall surface of the bearing cooling cavity is positioned between the bearing and the sealing element, the pressure of the liquid medium at the outlet of the through hole is further reduced compared with the pressure of the inlet at the inlet section of the inlet shell, namely, the pressure of the medium to be sealed by the sealing element is reduced, the pressure difference borne by the sealing.
(4) According to the invention, by reasonably setting parameters such as the number of teeth, the axial length and the screw pitch of the spiral teeth, the number and the aperture of the through holes and the like, the flow of the cooling bearing can be accurately controlled, and the reliable work of the bearing is ensured.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the figures and specific embodiments.
The invention relates to a cooling structure for a bearing of a spiral wheel pair of a liquid rocket engine pump, which comprises: the device comprises an inducer (1), a spiral wheel (2), a bearing (3), a sealing element (4), a shaft end compression nut (5), an inlet shell (6) and a shaft (7); an inlet housing (6) comprising: an inlet section (67) and an annular section (68); an annular segment (68) comprising: the outlet section, the transition section and the bearing cooling section; a through hole (63) is formed in one side, close to the bearing cooling section, of the transition section inner cavity of the annular section (68); liquid medium enters the inlet shell (6) from the inlet section (67) and flows out from the outlet section, when the liquid medium passes through the transition section, the spiral wheel (2) is driven to rotate through the shaft (7), suction force is generated, part of the liquid medium passing through the transition section is pumped into the through hole (63) of the inner cavity of the transition section, and the liquid medium flows through the bearing (3) and then flows back to the transition section through the spiral wheel (2) and then flows into the outlet, so that the cooling of the bearing is realized. The invention can simplify the cooling structure of the turbine pump bearing of the engine and improve the pump efficiency while ensuring the cooling flow of the bearing.
The invention relates to a cooling structure of a spiral wheel bearing of a liquid rocket engine pump, which is used for a flow loop in a pump structure, wherein the pressure of a cooling bearing medium before the cooling bearing medium is introduced into a bearing meets the cooling flow of the bearing, and must be within the range of the sealing capability of a sealing element, the pressure of the cooling bearing medium cannot be too low or too high, the cooling bearing medium is generally introduced out from the position of an inducer, which is close to an outlet, if the introduction position of the cooling bearing medium in the pump is limited by the pump structure and the cooling of the bearing cannot be realized in the pump, the scheme of the invention is adopted, through reasonably setting the parameters of the spiral wheel and utilizing the suction effect, a through hole is arranged on the wall surface of a main flow cavity of the inlet shell of the pump, a low-pressure medium is introduced to cool the bearing, the cooling flow of the bearing is accurately controlled, and the medium pressure that the sealing member needs to seal further reduces than pump inlet casing entry section for seal assembly operating mode is good, and the reliability improves.
As shown in figure 1, the spiral wheel pair bearing cooling structure of the liquid rocket engine pump comprises an inducer (1), a spiral wheel (2), a bearing (3), a sealing element (4), a shaft end gland nut (5), an inlet shell (6) and a shaft (7), wherein the inducer (1), the spiral wheel (2), the bearing (3), the sealing element (4) and the shaft end gland nut (5) are all assembled on the shaft (7), the shaft end gland nut (5) is arranged beside the sealing element (4), the shaft end gland nut (5) is screwed with the shaft (7) in a torque manner, and the axial pressing force ensures that the spiral wheel (2) rotates synchronously with the shaft (7). The inducer (1) is connected with the shaft (7) through a spline. And the sealing element (4) is used for blocking the liquid medium from flowing to the large end of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section when reaching the space between the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4), and ensuring that all the liquid medium reaching the space between the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4) flows to the small end of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section.
As shown in fig. 4, the inlet housing (6) has an axisymmetric structure, and the inlet housing 6 is processed by investment casting or 3D printing and is made of a high-strength stainless steel material. The inlet shell (6) comprises an inlet section (67) and an annular section (68), the inlet section (67) is a contraction channel with a cross section gradually changing from large to small, the offset l between the central line of the transition section of the annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6) and the central line of the shaft (7) is preferably 40-45.5 cm, and the performance of a spiral wheel of a liquid rocket engine pump on a bearing cooling structure is further improved.
As shown in fig. 5, the ring segment (68) includes an outlet segment, a transition segment and a bearing cooling segment, the transition segment inner cavity and the outlet segment inner cavity of the inlet segment (67) inner cavity and the ring segment (68) are jointly used as a main flow cavity, the outlet segment inner cavity is cylindrical, the bearing cooling segment inner cavity is a bearing cooling cavity, the bearing cooling cavity is a multi-stage structure formed by sequentially arranging a plurality of cylinders with different diameters from small to large according to the diameter, the small end of the bearing cooling cavity is arranged on one side of the smallest cylinder, and the large end of the bearing cooling cavity is arranged on one side of the largest cylinder. The inducer (1) is arranged in an outlet section inner cavity of an annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6). The spiral wheel (2), the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4) are sequentially arranged in a bearing cooling section inner cavity of the annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6);
as shown in fig. 3, the inlet section (67) and the transition section in the inlet casing (6) are provided with a first partition plate (61), and the first partition plate (61) penetrates through the inlet section and the transition section. The transition section in the inlet shell (6) is also provided with a second clapboard (62). The first partition plate (61) and the second partition plate (62) are flat plates, the planes of the second partition plate (62) and the first partition plate (61) are located on the same plane, and the central axis of the shaft (7) is also located in the plane of the second partition plate (62) and the first partition plate (61); the first partition plate (61) and the second partition plate (62) are respectively located on both sides of the central axis of the shaft (7). The arrangement of the first partition (61) and the second partition (62) can increase the rigidity of the inlet shell (6), reduce deformation and reduce the pre-rotation effect of the fluid. The center lines of the bearing cooling cavity step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the bearing cooling section in the annular section (68) of the inlet shell (6) and the cylindrical wall surface (66) of the outlet section of the inlet shell are collinear with the center line of the shaft (7). Two through holes (63) parallel to the symmetry plane are formed in one side, close to the bearing cooling section, of the inner wall surface of the main flow cavity of the transition section of the annular section (68), and the through holes (63) are symmetrical relative to the symmetry plane and penetrate through the inner wall surface (64) of the main flow cavity of the transition section and the step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section. The through hole (63) is communicated with the inner cavity of the transition section and the inner cavity of the bearing cooling section. The through hole (63) is positioned between the bearing (3) and the sealing element (4) at the axial position of the bearing cooling section;
the preferred scheme is as follows: as shown in fig. 2, the helical wheel (2) comprises a sleeve (21) and helical teeth (22), and is made of a lighter aluminum alloy material and integrally machined by adopting a forging piece or a bar material. In order to meet the assembly requirement of the bearing 3, two ends of the outer diameter of the sleeve (21) are cylindrical sections, the end with the small diameter is the small end of the sleeve (21), the end with the large diameter is the large end of the sleeve (21), the middle of the two cylindrical sections is in conical transition, and the small end of the sleeve is matched with the end face of the bearing. The spiral teeth (22) circumferentially surround the outer surface of the sleeve (21), and the spiral teeth (22) are circumferentially and uniformly distributed along the outer surface of the small-end cylindrical section of the sleeve (21). In order to accurately control the cooling flow of the bearing, the radius clearance between the top of the spiral tooth (22) and the minimum diameter position of the step cylindrical wall surface (65) of the bearing cooling cavity of the bearing cooling section of the inlet shell (6) is preferably 0.5-0.7 mm. The spiral direction of helical tooth (22) is the dextrorotation, the cross sectional shape of helical tooth (22) is trapezoidal, the number of teeth of helical tooth (22) is preferred 6 ~ 10, the axial length of helical tooth (22) is preferred 14 ~ 16.5mm, the pitch of helical tooth (22) is preferred 65 ~ 70mm, the tooth height of helical tooth (22) is preferred 3 ~ 4mm, the tooth top width of helical tooth (22) is preferred 0.8 ~ 1mm, the performance of liquid rocket engine pump spiral wheel to bearing cooling structure has further been improved. The inner diameter of the sleeve (21) is divided into three cylindrical sections, the inner diameter of the large end of the sleeve (21) is preferably phi 55.2mm, the inner diameter of the small end side of the sleeve (21) is preferably phi 55mm, the inner diameter of the middle section is phi 56mm, the inner diameter of the large end of the sleeve (21) is slightly larger than the inner diameter of the small end of the sleeve (21), the inner diameter of the middle section is the largest, the length of a matching positioning surface of the sleeve (21) and the shaft (7) is shortened, the size machining precision is guaranteed, meanwhile, the diameter of the shaft (7) at the large end matching position of the sleeve (21) is slightly larger than the diameter of the shaft (7).
Liquid medium enters an inlet shell (6) from an inlet section (67), passes through a main flow cavity, flows out from an outlet section, drives a spiral wheel (2) to rotate through a shaft (7) to generate suction force, partial liquid medium passing through a transition section is pumped into a through hole (63) of an inner cavity of the transition section, the liquid medium passes through the through hole (63) and reaches a position between a bearing (3) and a sealing element (4), flows through the bearing (3) to cool the bearing (3), takes away heat generated by the rotational friction of the bearing (3), and then flows back to the transition section through spiral teeth (22) to be converged into the outlet section, so that the cooling of the bearing is realized, a cooling flow path of the bearing (3) is completely sealed in a pump, the external structure of the engine is simplified, the weight of the engine is reduced, the energy loss of the medium is reduced, and the pump efficiency. In addition, the liquid medium pressure at the outlet of the through hole is further reduced compared with the inlet pressure of the inlet section of the inlet shell, namely, the medium pressure required to be sealed by the sealing element is reduced, and the pressure difference borne by the sealing element is reduced, so that the working condition of the sealing element is good, and the reliability is improved.
The invention realizes the further preferable proposal of accurate control of the flow of the spiral wheel cooling bearing: let q be the flow passing through the helical wheel, omega be the rotation angular velocity of the helical wheel, s be the pitch, ρ be the medium density, F be the helical wheel inlet flow area, D be the helical wheel tip diameter, D be the product of the through-hole flow resistance coefficient mu 1 and the flow area A1, B be the helical wheel flow parameterThe product of the flow resistance coefficient mu 2 of the large end side of the spiral wheel sleeve and the flow area B1 of the large end side of the spiral wheel sleeve, the flow q meets the preferable constraint condition:
wherein g is the gravity acceleration, pi is the circumferential rate, and the accurate control of the helical wheel cooling bearing flow can be realized by adjusting the structural parameters of the helical wheel and the through hole.
The invention adopts the scheme that the flow of the helical wheel measured after the test of a certain liquid rocket engine is 2% of the designed value of the cooling flow required by the bearing, the lift of the helical wheel is 1% of the designed value, the test is consistent with the designed value, and the bearing and the sealing element are intact after the decomposition.
The invention relates to a bearing cooling loop structure, which completes the cooling of a bearing in a pump cavity, simplifies the external structure of an engine, lightens the weight of the engine, arranges a spiral wheel in a flow path, realizes the extraction of a low-pressure medium from a transition section with lower pressure in the pump by utilizing the suction action of the spiral wheel, and converges the low-pressure medium into an outlet section of a main pump path after the cooling of the bearing, thereby reducing the energy loss of the medium and improving the pump efficiency.
The structure of the cooling bearing is a simple and reliable bearing cooling loop structure, a helical wheel is arranged in a flow path in a pump, the helical wheel and a shaft rotate synchronously, the pumping action is realized, the circulation power is provided for a bearing cooling auxiliary path, two through holes parallel to a symmetrical plane are formed in the inner wall surface of a main flow cavity of an inlet shell transition section, the through holes penetrate through the inner wall surface of the main flow cavity of the transition section and the step cylindrical wall surface of the bearing cooling cavity, a medium is introduced from the two through holes of the inlet shell by using the pumping action of the helical wheel, the cooling bearing is pressurized by the helical wheel and returns to an inducer inlet, a cooling flow path is completely sealed in the pump, a pipeline does not need to be additionally arranged outside the pump, the structure is simple, and the weight of an engine. More importantly, the bearing is cooled by adopting a low-pressure medium, so that the energy loss of fluid is reduced, and the pump efficiency is improved.
The spiral wheel is right-handed, the flowing direction of a liquid medium is introduced from the through hole in the inner cavity of the transition section of the inlet shell, the liquid medium sequentially flows through the bearing and the spiral wheel and then returns to the inlet of the inducer, the axial position of the opening of the through hole on the step cylindrical wall surface of the cooling cavity of the bearing is positioned between the bearing and the sealing element, the pressure of the liquid medium at the outlet of the through hole is further reduced compared with the pressure of the inlet at the inlet section of the inlet shell, namely, the pressure of the medium to be sealed by the sealing element is reduced, and the pressure difference borne by the sealing element is reduced, so that the working condition of the sealing element is good, and the reliability is improved.