TURBINE ENGINE INCLUDING A STEAM SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250163849A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-22

    申请号:US18515864

    申请日:2023-11-21

    Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft includes a turbo-engine with a core air flow path, a fan having a fan shaft coupled to the turbo-engine to rotate the fan shaft, and a steam system. A combustor is positioned in the core air flow path to combust fuel and to generate combustion gases. The steam system is fluidly coupled to the core air flow path to provide steam to the core air flow path. The steam system includes a boiler to generate the steam, a water pump, and a controller. The water pump is in fluid communication with the boiler to direct a flow of water into the boiler. The controller is operatively coupled to the water pump to control the output of the water pump, the flow of the water into the boiler, and the amount of the steam injected into the core air flow path.

    TURBINE ENGINE INCLUDING A STEAM SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250059911A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-20

    申请号:US18451429

    申请日:2023-08-17

    Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft. The turbine engine includes a combustor, a core shaft, a turbine, and a steam system providing steam to a core air flow path. The steam system includes a boiler that receives combustion gases to boil water to generate steam. A steam turbine is fluidly coupled to the boiler to receive the steam from the boiler and to cause the steam turbine to rotate. The steam turbine is coupled to the core shaft to rotate the core shaft when the steam turbine rotates. The steam system may include a bypass flow path selectively operable to redirect at least one of the steam or water, and to bypass the core air flow path. The turbine engine may also include at least one steam control valve located downstream of the boiler and upstream of the core air flow path to control the flow of steam.

    System and method for active clearance control
    16.
    发明授权
    System and method for active clearance control 有权
    主动间隙控制的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US09260974B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-02-16

    申请号:US13625924

    申请日:2012-09-25

    Abstract: Active clearance control ejector systems and methods are disclosed. An example system may include an air ejector; an entrance pipe arranged to supply compressor bleed air to the air ejector; an inlet duct arranged to supply fan bypass air to the air ejector; and a supply pipe arranged to receive ejector outlet air from the air ejector and supply the ejector outlet air to an active clearance control system. The ejector outlet air may include a mixture of the compressor bleed air and the fan bypass air. The air ejector may include a venturi arranged to conduct the compressor bleed air therethrough, thereby drawing the fan bypass air into the air ejector.

    Abstract translation: 公开了主动间隙控制喷射器系统和方法。 示例性系统可以包括空气喷射器; 入口管,布置成将压缩机排放空气供应到空气喷射器; 入口管道,其布置成将风扇旁路空气供应到空气喷射器; 以及供应管,布置成从喷射器接收喷射器出口空气,并将喷射器出口空气供应到主动间隙控制系统。 喷射器出口空气可以包括压缩机排出空气和风扇旁路空气的混合物。 空气喷射器可以包括文丘里管,其布置成将压缩机排气通过其中,从而将风扇旁路空气抽入空气喷射器。

    PARTICLE SEPARATORS FOR TURBOMACHINES AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210388763A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US17230095

    申请日:2021-04-14

    Abstract: A particle separator includes a separator body in a primary fluid passageway of a machine. The primary fluid passageway includes one or more bleed holes through which a diverted portion of the fluid flowing in the primary fluid passageway toward a volume of the machine is diverted into an auxiliary flow passageway that bypasses the volume and directs the diverted portion of the fluid toward one or more other components of the machine. The separator body is coupled with the inner wall and/or outer wall of the primary fluid passageway. The separator body includes an upstream edge positioned to separate at least some particles carried by the fluid from the fluid as the diverted portion of the fluid bends around and flows over the at least one upstream edge of the separator body and into the auxiliary flow passageway.

    Nozzle for a gas turbine engine
    19.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10428664B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-01

    申请号:US14884134

    申请日:2015-10-15

    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine includes at least one pair of fixed vanes to define a nozzle between the pair of fixed vanes. The vanes can have an interior chamber defining a cooling circuit with a particle separator located within the interior chamber. The particle separator, which can comprise a virtual impactor, can have an accelerator for accelerating fluid moving through the virtual impactor such that the flow path is divided into a major flow moving into the interior chamber and a minor flow moving into a particle collector defined within the virtual impactor. The accelerator accelerates the fluid such that particles within the fluid are carried by their momentum into the particle collector with the minor flow, removing the particles from the major flow of fluid moving into the interior chamber.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ICE TOLERANT BLEED TAKEOFF

    公开(公告)号:US20180195408A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-12

    申请号:US15405016

    申请日:2017-01-12

    CPC classification number: F01D25/02 F02C7/047 F02C9/18

    Abstract: A method and icing effects mitigation system are provided. The icing effects mitigation system includes a fluid duct configured to channel a first flow of fluid through the fluid duct from a duct opening to a rotatable member at least partially positioned within the fluid duct. The rotatable member includes a radially inner rotatable portion and a radially outer rotatable portion. The icing effects mitigation system also includes a duct member extending through the fluid duct in a direction approximately orthogonal to a direction of the first flow of fluid. The duct member is configured to channel a second flow of a second fluid therethrough that causes ice accreted on the duct member to shed on a trajectory that impacts the rotatable member at the radially inner portion.

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