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公开(公告)号:US20230036206A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-02
申请号:US17389503
申请日:2021-07-30
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Steven Douglas Johnson , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Craig Alan Gonyou
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a combustion section, a turbine section, and a compressor section. The combustion section includes a combustor casing, a combustor, a cooling duct, and an outer duct. The combustor casing defines at least in part a diffuser cavity and a fluid inlet. The combustor disposed is in the diffuser cavity. The cooling duct is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet in the combustor casing and is configured to transport a flow of cooled air. The outer duct surrounds at least a portion of the cooling duct and extends along a portion of an entire length of the cooling duct. The outer duct defines a gap with the cooling duct and is configured to transport a flow of buffer air. The turbine section is disposed downstream from the combustion section. The cooling duct is in fluid communication with the turbine section.
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公开(公告)号:US20210215065A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-15
申请号:US17218678
申请日:2021-03-31
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Aaron Ezekiel Smith
Abstract: A hanger for a turbine engine can include a first surface confronting a cooling airflow, a second surface facing a heated airflow, and a third surface radially outward of the first surface. The hanger can also include a cyclonic separator with a dirty air inlet and a clean air outlet, as well as a cooling air circuit extending through the cyclonic separator.
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公开(公告)号:US10570767B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-25
申请号:US15016645
申请日:2016-02-05
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Ronald Scott Bunker
Abstract: An apparatus and method of a gas turbine engine comprising a rotor having at least one disk with a rotor defining an axial face and a stator having at least one ring with a stator axial face confronting the rotor axial face, with terminal portions of the axial faces forming a fluid outlet there between. A recess formed in one of the axial faces defines a buffer cavity into which a wing extends from the other of the axial faces and having a surface confronting the fluid outlet. A flow reverser is further provided within at least one of the surface or the terminal portion of the other of the axial faces.
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公开(公告)号:US10036319B2
公开(公告)日:2018-07-31
申请号:US14867379
申请日:2015-09-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Robert Carl Murray , Corey Bourassa , David Vickery Parker , Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr. , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , William Collins Vining , Erich Alois Krammer
CPC classification number: F02C7/052 , B01D45/12 , B01D45/16 , B01D50/002 , B04C3/00 , B04C3/04 , B04C3/06 , B04C2003/006
Abstract: A separator assembly for removing entrained particles from a fluid stream passing through a gas turbine engine includes a first particle separator for separating the fluid stream into a reduced-particle stream and a particle-laden stream, and emitting the particle-laden stream through a scavenge outlet. Another particle remover is fluidly coupled to the scavenge outlet to remove more particles from the air stream.
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公开(公告)号:US20170198585A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-13
申请号:US14990885
申请日:2016-01-08
Applicant: General Electric Company
CPC classification number: F01D5/081 , F01D5/082 , F01D9/041 , F01D11/001 , F01D11/04 , F01D25/12 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/128 , Y02T50/676
Abstract: A stator rim structure for a gas turbine engine comprises a stator having an end wall and a discourager defining a channel therebetween. The end wall is adjacent to a hot gas flow and the discourager is adjacent to a purge flow. A rotor has an angel wing extending into the channel. At least one supply passage is disposed within the stator and extends through the discourager and at least one aperture fluidly couples the supply passage with the channel. A flow of cooling air is fed from the supply passage into the aperture and into the channel to form a fluidic dam discouraging ingestion of the hot gas flow.
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公开(公告)号:US11674396B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-13
申请号:US17389503
申请日:2021-07-30
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Steven Douglas Johnson , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Craig Alan Gonyou
CPC classification number: F01D5/085 , F01D9/065 , F01D25/12 , F02C7/185 , F05D2240/35 , F05D2260/213 , F05D2260/2212 , F05D2260/232 , F05D2260/607
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a combustion section, a turbine section, and a compressor section. The combustion section includes a combustor casing, a combustor, a cooling duct, and an outer duct. The combustor casing defines at least in part a diffuser cavity and a fluid inlet. The combustor disposed is in the diffuser cavity. The cooling duct is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet in the combustor casing and is configured to transport a flow of cooled air. The outer duct surrounds at least a portion of the cooling duct and extends along a portion of an entire length of the cooling duct. The outer duct defines a gap with the cooling duct and is configured to transport a flow of buffer air. The turbine section is disposed downstream from the combustion section. The cooling duct is in fluid communication with the turbine section.
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公开(公告)号:US20220154644A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-19
申请号:US17098998
申请日:2020-11-16
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Steven Douglas Johnson , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
Abstract: A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger including first and second sides, with the first side in contact with flow path air flowing through a flow path of the engine. Furthermore, the system includes a housing positioned relative to the heat exchanger such that the housing and the second side of the heat exchanger define a plenum configured to receive bleed air from the engine. Moreover, the system includes and at least one of a plurality of fins extending outward from the second side of the heat exchanger in a radial direction into the plenum and along the second surface of the heat exchanger in the circumferential direction or an impingement plate defining a plurality of impingement apertures, with each impingement aperture configured to direct an impingement jet of the bleed air within the plenum onto the second side of the heat exchanger.
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公开(公告)号:US11053814B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-06
申请号:US16356390
申请日:2019-03-18
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Daniel Endecott Osgood , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Kirk D. Gallier
Abstract: A component for a turbine engine includes a body having an outer surface confronting a combustion air flow path and defining an interior, as well as a first cooling passage having at least a portion supplying cooling air to the interior of the body. The component also includes a cyclone separator having a cooling air inlet, a clean air outlet, and a dirty air outlet.
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公开(公告)号:US10975731B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-13
申请号:US15314341
申请日:2015-05-28
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Robert Francis Manning , Timothy Deryck Stone , Jared Peter Buhler , Victor Hugo Silva Correia , Gregory Michael Laskowski , Robert Carl Murray , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Robert Proctor , John Howard Starkweather , Curtis Walton Stover
IPC: B01D45/16 , F02C7/05 , F02C7/052 , F01D25/32 , B04C3/06 , B04C3/00 , B64D33/08 , F01D5/08 , F01D25/12 , F02C3/04 , F02C7/18 , F02C9/18 , B64D33/02
Abstract: A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser configured to increase the angular velocity of a fluid stream, a flow splitter configured to split the fluid stream to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, and an exit conduit configured to receive the reduced-particle stream. An inducer assembly for a turbine engine includes an inducer with a flow passage having an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet in fluid communication with a turbine section of the engine, and a particle separator, which includes a particle concentrator that receives a compressed stream from a compressor section of the engine and a flow splitter. A turbine engine includes a cooling air flow circuit which supplies a fluid stream to a turbine section of the engine for cooling, a particle separator located within the cooling air flow circuit, and an inducer forming a portion of the cooling air flow circuit in fluid communication with the particle separator. A method of cooling a rotating blade of a turbine engine having an inducer includes directing a cooling fluid stream from a portion of turbine engine toward the rotating blade, separating particles from the cooling fluid stream by passing the cooling fluid stream through a inertial separator, accelerating a reduced-particle stream emitted from the inertial separator to the speed of the rotating blade, and orienting the reduced-particle stream by emitting the reduced-particle stream from the inertial separator into a cooling passage in the inducer.
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公开(公告)号:US10125781B2
公开(公告)日:2018-11-13
申请号:US14984473
申请日:2015-12-30
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kevin Samuel Klasing , Robert Proctor , Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff , Thomas Matthew Doerflein
IPC: F02C6/08 , F04D27/00 , F04D29/32 , F04D29/52 , F01D9/06 , F02C9/18 , F04D27/02 , F01D17/10 , F04D29/54
Abstract: A compressor for a gas turbine engine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes first and second stator vanes attached to first and second vane platforms, respectively. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor blades that rotate with respect to the stator. An inner stator casing supports the first and second vane platforms and encloses the stator and the rotor. An outer stator casing encloses the inner stator casing, and a bleed cavity is disposed therebetween. At least one diffuser is disposed between the first vane platform and the second vane platform, and is configured to allow air communication between the inner stator casing and the bleed cavity. An exit opening of the diffuser is disposed within the bleed cavity at a location separate from the inner stator casing and the outer stator casing.
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