TURBOMACHINERY ENGINES WITH HIGH-SPEED LOW-PRESSURE TURBINES

    公开(公告)号:US20240337228A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-10

    申请号:US18745410

    申请日:2024-06-17

    IPC分类号: F02K3/06

    CPC分类号: F02K3/06 F05D2200/14

    摘要: A turbomachinery engine includes a fan assembly, a low-pressure turbine, and a gearbox. The fan assembly includes a plurality of fan blades. The low-pressure turbine includes four rotating stages. The low-pressure turbine includes an area ratio equal to the annular exit area of an aft-most rotating stage of the low-pressure turbine divided by the annular exit area of a forward-most rotating stage of the low-pressure turbine. In some instances, the area ratio is within a range of 2.0-5.1. Additionally (or alternatively) the low-pressure turbine includes an area-EGT ratio within a range of 1.05-1.6.

    MIDSHAFT RATING FOR TURBOMACHINE ENGINES

    公开(公告)号:US20230136238A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US18058036

    申请日:2022-11-22

    IPC分类号: F16C3/02 F02C7/06

    摘要: A turbomachine engine including an engine core including a high-pressure compressor, which has an exit stage having an exit stage diameter (DCORE), a high-pressure turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the high-pressure compressor and the high-pressure turbine, a power turbine in flow communication with the high-pressure turbine, and a low-pressure shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. The low-pressure shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). The turbomachine engine is configured to operate up to the redline speed without passing through a critical speed associated with a first-order bending mode of the low-pressure shaft. The low-pressure shaft has a length (LMSR) defined by an engine core length (LCORE) given by: LCORE=[m(20+m)*n(10+n)](1/100)*DCORE+CIS.

    Compact low-pressure compressor
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11549463B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-10

    申请号:US17181773

    申请日:2021-02-22

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for compact compressors are disclosed including a gas turbine engine defining an axial direction and a radial direction, the gas turbine engine including an axial flow compressor and a radial flow compressor, wherein the axial flow compressor is located axially forward of the radial flow compressor, a blade assembly including a splitter shroud to divide incoming air into axial air flow for the axial flow compressor and radial air flow for the radial flow compressor, the blade assembly rotating relative to the axial flow compressor and counter-rotating relative to the radial flow compressor, and wherein the blade assembly is located axially aft of the radial flow compressor.

    Gas turbine engine with interdigitated turbine and gear assembly

    公开(公告)号:US11428160B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-30

    申请号:US17139138

    申请日:2020-12-31

    摘要: A gas turbine engine having an interdigitated turbine assembly including a first turbine rotor and a second turbine rotor, wherein a total number of stages at the interdigitated turbine assembly is between 3 and 8, and an average stage pressure ratio at the interdigitated turbine assembly is between 1.3 and 1.9. A gear assembly is configured to receive power from the interdigitated turbine assembly, and a fan assembly is configured to receive power from the gear assembly. The interdigitated turbine assembly and the gear assembly are together configured to allow the second turbine rotor to rotate at a second rotational speed greater than a first rotational speed at the first turbine rotor. The fan assembly and the gear assembly are together configured to allow the fan assembly to rotate at a third rotational speed less than the first rotational speed and the second rotational speed. The interdigitated turbine assembly, the gear assembly, and the fan assembly together have a maximum AN2 at the second turbine rotor between 30 and 90.