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公开(公告)号:US20210062756A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-04
申请号:US17086868
申请日:2020-11-02
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Joshua Tyler Mook , Kevin Michael VandeVoorde , Aigbedion Akwara , Michael Robert Notarnicola , Jason Joseph Bellardi , Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun , Mohamed Osama , Zachary William Nagel , Victor Luis Marrero Ortiz
Abstract: A monolithic heat exchanger body for inputting heat to a closed-cycle engine may include a plurality of heating walls and heat sink, such as a plurality of heat transfer regions. The plurality of heating walls may be configured and arranged in an array of spirals or spiral arcs relative to a longitudinal axis of an inlet plenum. Adjacent portions of the plurality of heating walls may respectively define a corresponding plurality of heating fluid pathways therebetween, for example, fluidly communicating with the inlet plenum. At least a portion of the heat sink may be disposed about at least a portion of the monolithic heat exchanger body. The heat sink may include a plurality of working-fluid bodies, for example, including a plurality of working-fluid pathways that have a heat transfer relationship with the plurality of heating fluid pathways. Respective ones of the plurality of heat transfer regions may have a heat transfer relationship with a corresponding semiannular portion of the plurality of heating fluid pathways. Respective ones of the plurality of heat transfer regions may include a plurality of working-fluid pathways fluidly communicating between a heat input region and a heat extraction region.
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公开(公告)号:US20200370842A1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-26
申请号:US16878773
申请日:2020-05-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Joshua Tyler Mook , Kevin Michael VandeVoorde , Aigbedion Akwara , Michael Robert Notarnicola , Jason Joseph Bellardi , Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun , Mohamed Osama , Zachary William Nagel , Victor Luis Marrero Ortiz
Abstract: A monolithic heat exchanger body includes a plurality of heating walls and a plurality of combustion fins. The plurality of heating walls are configured and arranged in an array of spirals or spiral arcs relative to a longitudinal axis. Adjacent portions of the plurality of heating walls respectively define a corresponding plurality of heating fluid pathways therebetween. The plurality of combustion fins are circumferentially spaced about a perimeter of an inlet plenum. The inlet plenum includes or fluidly communicates with a combustion chamber. The plurality of heating fluid pathways fluidly communicate with the inlet plenum. The plurality of combustion fins occupy a radially or concentrically inward portion of the monolithic heat exchanger body. The plurality of heating fluid pathways have a heat transfer relationship with a heat sink disposed about a radially or concentrically outward portion of the monolithic heat exchanger body. A plurality of conduction breaks disposed radially or concentrically outward relative to the plurality of combustion fins at least partially inhibit heat conduction from the plurality of combustion fins to the plurality of heating walls.
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公开(公告)号:US20200370509A1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-26
申请号:US16878744
申请日:2020-05-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Joshua Tyler Mook , Kevin Michael VandeVoorde , Aigbedion Akwara , Michael Robert Notarnicola , Jason Joseph Bellardi , Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun , Mohamed Osama , Zachary William Nagel
Abstract: A monolithic heater body may include a combustor body, a hot-side heat exchanger body, and an eductor body. The combustor body may define a combustion chamber and a conditioning conduit circumferentially surrounding the combustion chamber. The conditioning conduit may fluidly communicate with the combustion chamber at a distal portion of the combustion chamber. The hot-side heat exchanger body may define a hot-side heat exchanger that includes a heating fluid pathway fluidly communicating with a proximal portion of the combustion chamber. The eductor body may define an eduction pathway fluidly communicating with a downstream portion of the heating fluid pathway and a proximal portion of the conditioning conduit.
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公开(公告)号:US20200370446A1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-26
申请号:US16878875
申请日:2020-05-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Joshua Tyler Mook , Michael Thomas Gansler , Scott Douglas Waun , Kevin Michael VandeVoorde , Aigbedion Akwara , Michael Robert Notarnicola , Jason Joseph Bellardi , Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun , Mary Kathryn Thompson , Mohamed Osama
Abstract: An energy conversion apparatus may include an engine assembly, such as a monolithic engine assembly, that includes a first heater body and a first engine body. The first heater body may define a first portion of a first monolithic body or at least a portion of a first monolithic body-segment. The first engine body may define a second portion of the first monolithic body or at least a portion of a second monolithic body-segment operably coupled or operably couplable to the first heater body. The engine assembly may include a second heater body and/or a second engine body. The second heater body may define a portion of a second monolithic body or a third monolithic body-segment. The second engine body may define a portion of the second monolithic body or a fourth monolithic body-segment operably coupled or operably couplable to the second heater body and/or the first engine body.
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公开(公告)号:US10830138B2
公开(公告)日:2020-11-10
申请号:US15215345
申请日:2016-07-20
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: John Alan Manteiga , Joshua Tyler Mook , Shourya Prakash Otta
IPC: B01D53/24 , F02C7/052 , B01D45/16 , F02C7/18 , F02C9/18 , B04C5/13 , B04C5/28 , B04C5/04 , F02C7/05 , B64D33/02 , F01D25/32
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to separating entrained solid particles from an input airflow in a gas turbine engine. A cyclonic separator receives the input airflow from a compressor and separates a first portion of the input airflow. The cyclonic separator remove solid particles from the first portion of the input airflow to provide a first cleaned airflow to a first cooling system. A clean air offtake downstream from the cyclonic separator separates a second cleaned airflow from a remaining portion of the input air stream and provides the second cleaned airflow to a second cooling system. The remaining portion of the input airflow is provided to a combustor.
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公开(公告)号:US10781721B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-22
申请号:US15892735
申请日:2018-02-09
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Ananda Barua , Joshua Tyler Mook , Raymond Floyd Martell , Changjie Sun , Gautam Naik , Jordan Paule Tesorero , Aigbedion Akwara
IPC: F01D25/28 , F01D9/04 , B33Y80/00 , F01D9/06 , F01D25/16 , B29C64/00 , B22F5/00 , B33Y10/00 , B22F3/105
Abstract: Turbine center frames are provided. For example, a turbine center frame comprises an annular outer case and an annular hub. The hub is defined radially inward of the outer case such that the outer case circumferentially surrounds the hub. The turbine center frame further comprises an annular fairing extending between the outer case and the hub, a ligament extending from the fairing to the outer case to connect the fairing to the outer case, a plurality of struts extending from the hub to the outer case, and a boss structure defined on an outer surface of the outer case. The outer case, hub, fairing, ligament, plurality of struts, and boss structure are integrally formed as a single monolithic component. For instance, the turbine center frame is additively manufactured as an integral structure, and methods for manufacturing turbine center frames also are provided.
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公开(公告)号:US10695704B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-30
申请号:US15215353
申请日:2016-07-20
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Joshua Tyler Mook , John Alan Manteiga , Gregg Hunt Wilson , Stephen Joseph Waymeyer , Christopher Robert Williams
IPC: B01D45/00 , B01D45/16 , F01D25/32 , F01D5/08 , B01D45/08 , B04C3/00 , F02C7/052 , F04D29/44 , F04D29/70
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to separating solid particles from an airflow in a gas turbine engine. A system for separating debris includes a first separation device in fluid communication with an inlet flow path of a compressor and a second separation device in fluid communication with an outlet flow path of the compressor and an inlet flow path of a combustor. The first separation device is adapted to remove coarse particles from the airflow. The second separation device is adapted to remove fine particles from the airflow. The course particles have a larger mean particle diameter than the fine particles.
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公开(公告)号:US20200025377A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-23
申请号:US16398439
申请日:2019-04-30
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Mark Eugene Noe , Shawn Michael Pearson , Joshua Tyler Mook , Brandon ALlanson Reynolds , Jonathan David Baldiga
Abstract: Gas turbine engines, as well as outer walls and flow path assemblies of gas turbine engines, are provided. For example, an outer wall of a flow path comprises a combustor portion extending through a combustion section, and a turbine portion extending through at least a first turbine stage of a turbine section. The combustor and turbine portions are integrally formed as a single unitary structure that defines an outer boundary of the flow path. As another example, a flow path assembly comprises a combustor dome positioned a forward end of a combustor; an outer wall extending from the combustor dome through at least a first turbine stage; and an inner wall extending from the combustor dome through at least a combustion section. The combustor dome extends radially from the outer wall to the inner wall and is integrally formed with the outer and inner walls as a single unitary structure.
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公开(公告)号:US10288293B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-14
申请号:US15039065
申请日:2014-11-21
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: David Richard Barnhart , Joshua Tyler Mook
Abstract: A fuel nozzle apparatus has a centerline axis, and includes: a main fuel injector including an enclosed interior volume in fluid communication with a plurality of fuel ports configured to discharge fuel therefrom; a main fuel conduit disposed upstream of the main fuel injector and configured to supply liquid fuel to the interior volume; and a fluid lock disposed between the main fuel conduit and the main fuel injector, the fluid lock including a plurality of parallel capillary channels.
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公开(公告)号:US10150255B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-11
申请号:US14956896
申请日:2015-12-02
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Joshua Tyler Mook , William Thomas Carter
IPC: B29C64/141 , B29C67/00 , B33Y10/00 , G03G15/22 , B29C64/153 , B22F3/105 , B33Y70/00
Abstract: Methods for printing a three-dimensional part are provided. The method can include charging an outer surface of a rotating photoreceptor drum with an electrostatic charge; neutralizing the electrostatic charge on a portion of the outer surface of the rotating photoreceptor drum surface to form a layer definition corresponding to the neutralized portion; transferring a plurality of charged metal powder particles onto the outer surface of the rotating photoreceptor drum corresponding to the neutralized portion; and transferring the charged metal powder particles from the outer surface of the rotating photoreceptor drum onto a workpart to form a metal print layer.
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