Gas turbine engine core debris cleaner

    公开(公告)号:US11821362B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US17719458

    申请日:2022-04-13

    Inventor: Marc J. Muldoon

    CPC classification number: F02C7/05 F02C7/052

    Abstract: An assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a low pressure compressor, a high pressure compressor, an intermediate case between the low pressure compressor and the high pressure compressor, and a cleaning apparatus having an annular arrangement about the intermediate case. A core flow path is defined through the low pressure compressor, the intermediate case, and the high pressure compressor. The annular arrangement includes a scroll portion configured to extract debris from an airstream at an outer diameter wall of the core flow path and return the airstream to the core flow path.

    Object direction mechanism for turbofan engine

    公开(公告)号:US11767790B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-26

    申请号:US17408786

    申请日:2021-08-23

    CPC classification number: F02C7/05 F02C6/20 F02C7/04 F02K3/00 F05D2220/36

    Abstract: A turbofan engine is provided. The turbofan engine includes a fan comprising a plurality of fan blades; a turbomachine operably coupled to the fan for driving the fan, the turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order and together defining a core air flowpath; a nacelle surrounding and at least partially enclosing the fan; an inlet pre-swirl feature located upstream of the plurality of fan blades, the inlet pre-swirl feature attached to or integrated into the nacelle; and a means for directing incoming objects towards an outer portion of the turbofan engine in communication with the inlet pre-swirl feature.

    Core duct assembly
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11686248B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-27

    申请号:US17333631

    申请日:2021-05-28

    Abstract: A core duct assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a core duct including an outer and an inner wall, the outer wall having an interior surface; a gas flow path member extending across the gas flow path at least partly between the inner and outer walls, the rotor blade having a radial span extending from a blade platform to a blade tip, wherein an upstream wall axis is defined as an axis tangential to a point on a first portion of the interior surface of the outer wall of the core duct extending downstream from the gas flow path member, the upstream wall axis lying in a longitudinal plane of the gas turbine engine containing the rotational axis of the engine, and wherein the upstream wall axis intersects the rotor blade at a point spaced radially inward from the blade tip of the rotor blade.

    Design, control and operation of filters for turbomachines

    公开(公告)号:US11656588B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-23

    申请号:US16511010

    申请日:2019-07-15

    Abstract: A method for designing and/or controlling a filter assembly for the air supply to a turbomachine includes: calculating a current and/or an expected concentration of particles in air present at an inlet of at least one filter stage of the filter assembly as a function of a mean size of the particles; calculating a sensitivity spectrum that, depending on the mean size of the particles, indicates an extent to which a predetermined concentration of such particles has a negative effect on performance and/or on service life of the turbomachine; calculating, for at least one filter candidate usable in the filter stage and/or switchable on or off, a concentration of particles to be expected at an outlet of the filter from a concentration and filter properties of the at least one filter candidate; and calculating a quality rating from the concentration and a sensitivity spectrum.

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