Invention Publication
- Patent Title: HEAT EXCHANGER CAPACITY FOR ONE OR MORE HEAT EXCHANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH A POWER GEARBOX OF A TURBOFAN ENGINE
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Application No.: US18315075Application Date: 2023-05-10
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Publication No.: US20230349329A1Publication Date: 2023-11-02
- Inventor: Eyitayo James Owoeye , Lana Maria Osusky , Bugra Han Ertas
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Main IPC: F02C7/12
- IPC: F02C7/12 ; F02C7/36

Abstract:
A turbofan engine having one or more heat exchangers tied to a power gearbox is provided. The power gearbox mechanically couples a low pressure spool and a fan of the turbofan engine. The one or more heat exchangers have a heat exchanger capacity defined by a resultant heat transfer surface area density associated with the one or more heat exchangers multiplied by a heat conductance factor that relates a power gearbox heat load, a fan power consumption function, a fan diameter of the fan, and a bypass ratio of the turbofan engine. The heat exchanger capacity is between 0.77 and 298.17 for a rotational speed of the low pressure spool between 2,000 and 16,000 revolutions per minute at one hundred percent capacity and a resultant heat transfer surface area density being between 3,000 m2/m3 and 13,000 m2/m3.
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