Abstract:
A surface cooler comprises a plate-like layer and a plurality of spaced-apart fins extending substantially perpendicular from an uppermost layer of the plate-like layer. The plurality of fins defining a plurality of air flow paths. The plurality of spaced-apart fins are configured to augment heat transfer of the surface cooler by increasing the turbulence levels of a fluid flowing through the airflow paths by promoting increased mixing with a resulting increase in the heat transfer coefficient of the surface cooler. A method of forming the surface cooler and an engine including the surface cooler.
Abstract:
An apparatus for generating electricity has basically three main parts: a supply system, a power generating system, and a feedback system. The supply system comprises a container into which solid material is stored, and to which a downpipe duct is attached. At the end of this duct a guillotine valve is provided. The power generating system comprises a rotor rotatably mounted to a shaft supported by a casing. To the outer surface of said rotor a set of rotor buckets are assembled to receive the material from the supply system. Said shaft is coupled to the shaft of a generator responsible for generating electricity. The feedback system comprises a chain conveyor assembly including sprockets to which a chain is mounted, and to said chain a set of elongated buckets are installed. These buckets receive the material from the power generating system and lift it back to the storage container.
Abstract:
A gas turbine group comprises a device, arranged in a suction-intake duct, for cooling a suction-intake airflow. The device is, for example, a device for injecting a liquid mass flow. The cooling device is activated automatically when a first limit temperature of the ambient air is overshot and is deactivated automatically when a second limit temperature is undershot. Stability of the automatic algorithm can be improved in that the second limit temperature can lie by a specific amount below the first limit temperature. In one embodiment, the limit temperatures are predetermined as a function of the position of an adjustable initial guide blade cascade.
Abstract:
An reverse electric power generator includes a longitudinal stator and a longitudinal rotor, in which the rotor surrounds the stator in an axial direction such that the rotor rotates relative to the axis for inducing an electrical current in the stator.
Abstract:
A thermally actuated venting system includes a thermally actuated vent for opening a vent outlet in a gas turbine engine associated compartment with a passive thermal actuator located in the compartment based on a temperature of the compartment. Outlet may be located at or near a top of a core engine compartment, a fan compartment, or a pylon compartment. Actuator may be operably connected to a hinged door of vent for opening outlet. Actuator may be actuated by a phase change material disposed in a chamber and having a liquid state below a predetermined actuation temperature and a gaseous state above the predetermined actuation temperature. Actuator may include a thermal fuse for closing door during a fire. Thermal fuse may include at least a portion of piston rod or a cylinder wall of actuator being made of a fuse material having a melting point substantially above the predetermined actuation temperature.
Abstract:
This invention describes the obtainment of impact-resistant materials from a block copolymer that comprises as monomers an alkadiene (conjugated diene) and a vinyl aromatic compound, which is used as impact modifier to obtain such materials and in which, at least, one of the blocks of the vinyl aromatic compound is polydisperse. The invention allows obtaining morphologies such as rods, points or capsules by incorporating such copolymer into a polymeric matrix derived from vinyl aromatic monomers independently from other agents such as chain transfer agents, and achieving increases, in the impact values up to 50% through the use of the copolymer of this invention.
Abstract:
A thermally actuated venting system includes a thermally actuated vent for opening a vent outlet in a gas turbine engine associated compartment with a passive thermal actuator located in the compartment based on a temperature of the compartment. Outlet may be located at or near a top of a core engine compartment, a fan compartment, or a pylon compartment. Actuator may be operably connected to a hinged door of vent for opening outlet. Actuator may be actuated by a phase change material disposed in a chamber and having a liquid state below a predetermined actuation temperature and a gaseous state above the predetermined actuation temperature. Actuator may include a thermal fuse for closing door during a fire. Thermal fuse may include at least a portion of piston rod or a cylinder wall of actuator being made of a fuse material having a melting point substantially above the predetermined actuation temperature.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure includes applying an electron beam curable polymer material to a generally planer material, placing two sheets of the planer material in laminar juxtaposition with one another, and forming and curing nodelines between adjacent sheets of the planar material with an electron beam.
Abstract:
An infrared photodetector containing a region of semiconductor quantum dots (1), n type doped in the barrier region (2), and sandwiched between respective layers of semiconductors of n type (3) and p type (4). When infrared photons (5) are absorbed, they create electronic transitions (6) from the confined states in the dots (7) to the conduction band (8). This causes the appearance of a voltage between device p (9) and n (10) contacts or the production of an electrical current. In either way, the detection of the infrared light is possible. A low band-pass filter (12) prevents high energy photons (13) from entering the device and causing electronic transitions (14) from the valence (15) band to the conduction band (8).
Abstract:
A surface cooler includes a plate-like layer and a plurality of spaced-apart fins extending substantially perpendicular from an uppermost layer of the plate-like layer. The plurality of fins defining a plurality of air flow paths. The plurality of spaced-apart fins are configured to augment heat transfer of the surface cooler by increasing the turbulence levels of a fluid flowing through the airflow paths by promoting increased mixing with a resulting increase in the heat transfer coefficient of the surface cooler. A method of forming the surface cooler and an engine including the surface cooler.