The Blade Shape

Design groups should conduct a thorough search of the internet to obtain information on turbine rotor blade design and efficiency. Based on your research, decide on the number and general shape of the blade. Constraints: Total diameter of the Turbine Rotor (diameter of the swept area) must not exceed 6 inches or 152.4 mm. The thickness is limited by the height of the Hub. It should not exceed .25 inch or 6.35 mm. The tutorial in the following slides is based on the blade geometry and shape shown below.
2.5 in. (63

.5 mm)

.25 (6.35 mm)

.7 in (18 mm)
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The Plan
Decide on the angle of attack near the tip, number of stations, and the profile (size) for each station. Decide on the number of the blades to use. Construct work planes to sketch the profiles (stations) of the blade. Sketch the profiles according to your design. Use the Loft command to create the blade by sweeping and blending the profiles. Smooth the edges of the blade. Finish the Turbine Rotor by generating the desired number of blades (circular pattern).
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Modeling the Turbine Rotor

Start Inventor and open the provided Hub file, blade_hub_seed_D15SEP07 Make the YZ plane visible Open the Origin file (click the +) Right click the YZ plane and select the Visibility option

Example hub for this tutorial

YZ plane

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor

Make an offset plane, 6.25 distance from the YZ plane Click Work Plane icon, select the YZ plane, drag and input the value for the offset Enter 2D Sketch mode to draw the first profile of the blade Click 2D Sketch icon and select the work plane just created Project the hub to have a reference for drawing the profile Select Project Geometry and pick the hub

Select hub
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Projected outline
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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Sketching the First Profile

Suppress the hub to unclutter the screen

Select the Suppress Features

Select the Extrusion feature and right click

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Sketching the First Profile

After suppressing the hub, edit the sketch Draw a line between the midpoints of the projected geometry Offset this line to both sides, dimension the offset 9 mm on both sides

midpoint

midpoint

Result of the offset

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Sketching the First Profile

Draw a diagonal line, make sure you snap to the intersection Choose three points. After the third point, right click and select Create

Point 2 is selected arbitrary, this point determines the shape of the profile

Point 3, snap to the end of the line

Select the Spline command

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Point 1, snap to the end of the line

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Sketching the Second Profile

Delete the construction lines Create an offset work plane at 63.5 mm distance. This plane will be used to create the second profile

Click the Work Plane icon, select the first profile plane, drag and input the offset

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Sketching the Second Profile

Work plane for the second profile Draw a line 9 mm long from the origin Origin

Select 2D Sketch and choose the work plane

Construct a spline, same as the first profile

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Loft Command

The two profiles Select the two sections

Click the Loft icon

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Loft Command

Select first profile

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Select second profile

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor

Bring back the hub by unsuppressing the extrusion Right click the Extrusion and pick the Unsuppress Features

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Rounding Edges (Fillet)

Click the Shaded Display to view the hub and one blade

Make sure you select Constant Fillet option (constant radius)

Click the Fillet icon

Select an edge and assign a fillet radius

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Rounding Edges (Fillet)

Select the front and back edges of the blade and assign values of .3 and .15 respectably.

Select the common edge between the hub and the blade, assign a value of .3 mm for the fillet.

.3 mm fillet .3 mm fillet Ken Youssefi .15 mm fillet Engineering 10, SJSU

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Creating More Blades

Each design group is responsible for deciding on how many blades to use. The size of the hub dictates the maximum number of blades. Your selection must fall between 2 to 5 blades. Three blade turbine rotor Click the Features icon and select the blade

Click the Circular Pattern icon

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Modeling the Turbine Rotor Creating More Blades

Click the Rotation Axis icon and select the center hole.

Input the number of feature in the pattern (3) and the spread of the pattern (360o).

Direction of the pattern generated

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The Three-Blade turbine rotor

Rendered model

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2 to 5 Blade Turbine Rotors

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