GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH HEAT PIPE SYSTEM
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180209342A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-26

    申请号:US15412203

    申请日:2017-01-23

    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a rotor section proximate to a combustor section, where the rotor section is subject to bowing effects due to thermal differences and heat transfer at engine shutdown. The gas turbine engine also includes a heat pipe system. The heat pipe system includes one or more heat pipes installed between an upper portion of the rotor section and a lower portion of the rotor section. The heat pipe system is operable to accept heat at a hot side of the heat pipe system at the upper portion, flow heat from the hot side to a cold side of the heat pipe system, and reject heat from the cold side of the heat pipe system at the lower portion to reduce a thermal differential between the upper portion and the lower portion at engine shutdown.

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