公开(公告)号：US20250052189A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18366249

申请日：2023-08-07

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Arthur W. Sibbach ,  Rudolf Selmeier ,  Lajith Vijayan ,  Rakshit Tirumala

IPC: F02C3/30 ,  F02K3/06

Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft includes a fan that rotates to generate a volume of air, a core turbine engine, a nacelle, and a steam system. The core turbine engine includes a combustor that generates combustion gases, and a turbine including a shaft. The combustor and the turbine define a core air flowpath. The fan is drivingly coupled to the shaft. The nacelle circumferentially surrounds the fan and defines a bypass airflow passage between the nacelle and the core turbine engine. The volume of air flows into the bypass airflow passage as bypass air and flows into the core air flowpath as core air. The steam system extracts water from the combustion gases, vaporizes the water to generate steam, and injects the steam into the core air flowpath to add mass flow to the core air. A bypass ratio of the turbine engine is greater than 18:1.

公开(公告)号：US20210262416A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US16796256

申请日：2020-02-20

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Kishanjit Pal ,  Bhaskar Nanda Mondal ,  Lajith Vijayan

IPC: F02K3/062 ,  F02K3/075 ,  F02C9/18

Abstract: A gas turbine engine, the engine including a core turbine engine forming a core flowpath, a rotatable first stage blade assembly in which a bypass airflow passage is formed downstream of the first stage blade assembly, and a shroud positioned at the bypass airflow passage radially outward of the core turbine engine, wherein a first flowpath is formed outward of the shroud at which a first portion of air is flowed, and wherein the shroud and the core turbine engine form a second flowpath therebetween, the core flowpath in fluid communication with the second flowpath to flow a mixture of a second portion of air and combustion gases in the second flowpath.